Co-Founding Member of the University of South Florida S Ocean Circulation Group in 1989

Rick Cole:

Co-founding member of the University of South Florida’s Ocean Circulation Group in 1989 working on physical oceanographic projects spanning the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea focusing on ocean circulation and ocean-atmosphere interaction in the tropics, on continental shelves, and in estuaries. U.S. Navy veteran (Viet Nam) sailing on everything from aircraft carriers to kayaks and has been making in-situ physical oceanographic measurements in the world’s oceans since his career began in 1979 at the Florida Institute of Technology (BS, Oceanographic Technology, 1983). 18 years deploying ADCPs, 6 years with NOAA hydrographic surveying in HI and AK and helping install what is now called the TAO (Tropical Atmosphere Ocean) array along the equatorial Pacific. Rick is also a senior scientific diver with NOAA, the EPA and the American Academy of Underwater Sciences. Focus now is on real-time Doppler data via acoustic modems, the “Next-Generation” OCG-West Florida Shelf (WFS) buoy design and Horizontal- ADCP wave measurements.

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