Janet Sprintall

Janet Sprintall at sea

Janet Sprintall is an Australian-born oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She specializes in inter-basin exchanges, and in particular in the Indonesian throughflow[1] and dynamics of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current through the Drake passage. Sprintall studied barrier layers for her doctoral research,[2] and as of 2016 is building on that work as a principle investigator with the NASA SPURS II project in the tropical Pacific.[3] As an expert in Pacific Ocean dynamics, she provided plot advice for the TV series "Lost".

References

  1. ↑ Journal of Geophysical Research article
  2. ↑ .gov.au/Record/389484 Ph.D. thesis from National Library of Australia
  3. ↑ NASA blog
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