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Name
  
Carl Wunsch

Role
  
Professor


Doctoral advisor
  
Henry Stommel

Notable students
  
Peter Huybers


Born
  
May 5, 1941 Brooklyn, United States of America (
1941-05-05
)

Institutions
  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University

Alma mater
  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thesis
  
On the scale of the long period tides (1966)

Education
  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1966), Polytechnic Institute of New York University

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada

Fields
  
Oceanography, Geophysics, Statistics

Books
  
The Ocean Circulation Inverse P, Modern Observational Physical, Discrete Inverse and State, Ocean Acoustic Tomography

Munk Centennial Symposium, August 29, 2017: Introductions and Carl Wunsch


Carl Wunsch was the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physical Oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, until he retired in 2013. He is known for his early work in internal waves and more recently for research into the effects of ocean circulation on climate.

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Career

Wunsch received his Ph.D. in Geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966. He began teaching there in 1967, achieving tenure in 1970, and was named Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physical Oceanography in 1976.

Climate change

Wunsch was one of the scientists interviewed in the controversial documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle, but he complained that his views were grossly distorted by context.[1] [2]

Selected honors

  • Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1978
  • Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1979
  • Fulbright Scholar, 1981-1982
  • Maurice Ewing Medal, American Geophysical Union and U.S. Navy, 1990
  • Henry Stommel Research Award, American Meteorological Society, 2000
  • Foreign Member, Royal Society of London, 2002
  • William Bowie Medal, American Geophysical Union, 2006
  • Selected publications

  • Carl Wunsch, Discrete Inverse and State Estimation Problems, 2006. ISBN 0-521-85424-5
  • Carl Wunsch, The Ocean Circulation Inverse Problem, 1996. ISBN 0-521-48090-6
  • Walter Munk, Peter Worcester, and Carl Wunsch, Ocean Acoustic Tomography, Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-521-47095-1
  • References

    Carl Wunsch Wikipedia