Joan Oltman-Shay, PhD

Joan Oltman-Shay, PhD
President, Senior Research Scientist, Director - Seattle, WA
joshay@nwra.com

Curriculum vitae | Personal website

Research interests: Field and model studies of nearshore (shoreline to nominally 10m depth) wave and current dynamics and the interplay with sediment- and morpho-dynamics.

News & Events

Accolade: KD Leka, Graham Barnes, Ashley Crouch, Eric Wagner, Orion Poplawski | January 2025 | More ⇒

Federico Gasperini, Sr. Research Scientist, Boulder Office | January 2025 | More ⇒

NWRA Welcomes Lan Luan, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Boulder Office | January 2025 | More ⇒

Visitor: NWRA welcomes Victoria Zoeller, Graduate Student, ICM-CSIC & UPC (Spain) | December 2024 | More ⇒

Highlighted Publications

“Fingerprinting the Recovery of Antarctic Ozone” | January 2025 | More ⇒

“Higher-order gravity waves and traveling ionospheric disturbances from the polar vortex jet on 11-15 January 2016: Modeling with HIAMCM-SAMI3 and comparison with observations in the thermosphere and ionosphere” | January 2025 | More ⇒

“Two major sudden stratospheric warmings during winter 2023/2024” | January 2025 | More ⇒

“Coherent float arrays for near-inertial wave studies” | November 2024 | More ⇒

“Near-inertial energy variability in a strong mesoscale eddy field in Iceland Basin” | November 2024 | More ⇒

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