John Charles Marshall, FRS is a British

oceanographer Oceanography (), also known as oceanology and ocean science, is the scientific study of the oceans. It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of topics, including ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents, waves, and geophysical fluid dynamics ...

and academic. He is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of

Oceanography Oceanography (), also known as oceanology and ocean science, is the scientific study of the oceans. It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of topics, including ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents, waves, and geophysical fluid dynamic ...

in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

(MIT). He is also an adjunct senior research scientist in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University.

Life

Marshall holds degrees in physics and atmospheric science from

Imperial College, London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

, where he was a faculty member in the Physics Department. Marshall joined MIT in 1991, and has worked there ever since. Marshall studies the circulation of the ocean, its coupling to the atmosphere and the role of the oceans in climate. Specific research interests include ocean convection and thermohaline circulation, ocean gyres and circumpolar currents, geophysical fluid dynamics, climate dynamics and numerical modeling of ocean and atmosphere. He is the author or coauthor of over 150 refereed publications covering a wide range of topics in atmosphere, ocean and climate dynamics. He is perhaps best known for his work on ocean convection, the dynamics of the southern ocean and as the architect of the

MIT General Circulation Model The MIT General Circulation Model (MITgcm) is a numerical computer code that solves the equations of motion governing the ocean or Earth's atmosphere using the finite volume method. It was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and ...

(MITgcm), an open-source numerical model used by a broad community of researchers around the world.

Awards

* 1985: L.F. Richardson Prize of the

Royal Meteorological Society The Royal Meteorological Society is a long-established institution that promotes academic and public engagement in weather and climate science. Fellows of the Society must possess relevant qualifications, but Associate Fellows can be lay enthus ...

* 2004: Adrian Gill Prize of the Royal Meteorological Society * 2008: Elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...

* 2014: Elected a Fellow of the

American Meteorological Society The American Meteorological Society (AMS) is the premier scientific and professional organization in the United States promoting and disseminating information about the Atmospheric sciences, atmospheric, Oceanography, oceanic, and Hydrology, hydr ...

* 2014:

Sverdrup Gold Medal Award Sverdrup Gold Medal Award – is the American Meteorological Society's award granted to researchers who make outstanding contributions to the scientific knowledge of interactions between the oceans and the atmosphere. Recipients SourceAmerican M ...

of the American Meteorological Society * 2020:

A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences The A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences was established in 1980 by the Canadian marine science community to recognize excellence of research and outstanding contributions to marine sciences. It is presented by the Royal Societ ...

References

External links

* http://oceans.mit.edu/JohnMarshall/ * http://oceans.mit.edu/JohnMarshall/about-john/cv/ Curriculum Vitae {{DEFAULTSORT:Marshall, John Living people British oceanographers Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty Fellows of the Royal Society Alumni of Imperial College London Sverdrup Gold Medal Award Recipients Year of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the American Meteorological Society