Jonathan D Nash

  Associate Professor

  College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences
  Oregon State University
  Corvallis, OR 97331-5503
  office:   Burt Hall 402
  phone:   (541) 737-4573
  fax:   (541) 737-2064
  email:   nash@coas.oregonstate.edu

 

Education:

 Ph.D., Oregon State University ( Physical Oceanography ), May 2000
 M.Sc., Cornell University (Environmental Engineering), 1995
 B.Sc., Queen's University at Kingston, Ont. (Engineering Physics), 1991

 Research Interests: Ocean Mixing

 Exploring the physics of turbulence and mixing is key to our understanding of ocean dynamics. Innovative instrumentation, detailed analysis, and simple dynamical models enable us to:

  • understand the generation and evolution of turbulence
  • quantify irreversible fluxes of heat, salt, biology, chemicals and momentum
  • identify the processes ( the pathways to turbulence ) which produce these fluxes
  • determine the effects of turbulence on larger-scale flows.