Glen Gawarkiewicz

Glen G. Gawarkiewicz received the S.B. degree in ocean engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 1981, and the Ph.D. degree in physical oceanography from the University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA, in 1989. He is currently a Senior Scientist with the Physical Oceanography Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Woods Hole, MA, USA. He was a Postdoctoral Investigator with WHOI and joined the scientific staff in 1991. His research interests include continental shelf and slope dynamics with particular emphasis on shelf-break processes. He has been working with autonomous underwater vehicles since 2004 and has used the vehicles in a variety of scientific applications, including the shelf-break front in the Middle Atlantic Bight, the coastal current east of Cape Cod, and Glovers Reef in Belize. He led the team that provided the conceptual design for the Ocean Observatories Initiative Pioneer Array and he has used this observatory to study how ocean processes are changing as the ocean is warming. He also works extensively with ocean acousticians and with the commercial fishing industry on community science.