James B. Edson

James B. Edson received the B.S. degree in physics from Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, in 1984 and the Ph.D. degree in meteorology from the Pennsylvania State University, State College, in 1989. He spent a year and a half as a Visiting Scientist at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique, Nantes, France, before joining the scientific staff in the Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, in 1991. His research interests lie in boundary layer meteorology with a focus on atmospheric turbulence and air–sea interactions. The objective of his research is to improve our understanding of processes associated with the transfer of heat, mass and momentum across the coupled boundary layers. Since 1998, he and Wade McGillis have acted as Chief Scientists on the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory.