Carl Wunsch
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| birth_place = Brooklyn, United States of America
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| fields = Oceanography, Geophysics, Statistics
| workplaces = Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University
| alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| thesis_title = On the scale of the long period tides
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| thesis_year = 1966
| doctoral_advisor = Henry Stommel
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Carl Wunsch was the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physical Oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, until he retired in 2013.{{cite web | url=http://eapsweb.mit.edu/news/2013/spring-newsletter-faculty-news | title=Faculty News | work=Massachusetts Institute of Technology | date=31 May 2013 | accessdate=4 February 2014 | author=Hill, Helen}} He is known for his early work in internal waves and more recently for research into the effects of ocean circulation on climate.
Career
Wunsch received his Ph.D. in Geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966. He began teaching there in 1967, achieving tenure in 1970, and was named Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physical Oceanography in 1976.
Climate change
{{see also|The Great Global Warming Swindle#Carl_Wunsch|l1=Carl Wunsch and The Great Global Warming Swindle Documentary}}
Wunsch was one of the scientists interviewed in the controversial documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle, but he complained that his views were grossly distorted by context.[http://ocean.mit.edu/~cwunsch/CHANNEL4.html] [http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s1977366.htm]
Selected honors
- Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1978{{Cite web|title=Carl Wunsch|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/48912.html|access-date=2021-09-14|website=www.nasonline.org}}
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1979
- Fulbright Scholar, 1981-1982
- Maurice Ewing Medal, American Geophysical Union and U.S. Navy, 1990
- Henry Stommel Research Award, American Meteorological Society, 2000
- Foreign Member, Royal Society of London, 2002{{Cite web|title=Carl Wunsch {{!}} Royal Society|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/carl-wunsch-12568/|access-date=2021-09-14|website=royalsociety.org|language=en-gb}}
- Member of the American Philosophical Society, 2003{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Carl+Wunsch&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-09-14|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}
- William Bowie Medal, American Geophysical Union, 2006
- Prince Albert I Medal (IAPSO), 2021 [https://iapso-ocean.org/medals-and-awards/the-prince-albert-i-medal.html (IAPSO list of medal winners)]
Selected publications
- Carl Wunsch, Discrete Inverse and State Estimation Problems, 2006. {{ISBN|0-521-85424-5}}
- Carl Wunsch, The Ocean Circulation Inverse Problem, 1996. {{ISBN|0-521-48090-6}}
- Walter Munk, Peter Worcester, and Carl Wunsch, Ocean Acoustic Tomography, Cambridge University Press, 1995. {{ISBN|0-521-47095-1}}
References
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External links
- [http://puddle.mit.edu/~cwunsch/ Homepage]
- [http://ocean.mit.edu/~cwunsch/cv/cv.pdf CV]
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Category:American oceanographers
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Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty
Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni