Title: Professor

Institution: University of Washington

Degree: PhD, Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Specialty:  Theory of the general circulation of the ocean and its waves and eddies; atmospheric and climate dynamics , particularly in the subpolar oceans; sea-going projects in high-latitude climate change; laboratory experiments and numerical models in oceanography and geophysical fluid dynamics; and computer data atlases and not least, understanding and teaching global environmental studies, from the sun (the mother of most energy) to climate to indigenous populations.

Website: www.ocean.washington.edu/people/faculty/rhines/rhines.html