NorthWest Research Associates

Eric Kunze, Physical Oceanographer, Senior Research Scientist, Seattle Office

Eric will retire this 31 December after a successful and fruitful 40 years with ~100 peer-reviewed journal papers on oceanic phenomena that contribute to mixing and stirring in the ocean with particular attention to the interactions of meso- to microscale processes such as fronts, eddies, internal waves, potential-vorticity-carrying fine structure, turbulence, double diffusion and surface forcing.

Eric joined NWRA in 2014 after having hung his hat at WHOI, UW, Univ Victoria (as the Canada Research Chair in Physical Oceanography) and then (again) at UW. He received his PhD in 1985 from UW.

Aloha to Eric!

After 4 years in Idaho, Sue has returned to Washington and will re-join NWRA on December 16 as an employee to work as a valued member of our contracts and grants team.

Please welcome Sue!