Janet Sprintall

{{Short description|Australian oceanographer}}

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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{{cite journal|doi=10.1029/2008JC005257 | bibcode=2009JGRC..114.7001S | volume=114 | title=Direct estimates of the Indonesian Throughflow entering the Indian Ocean: 2004–2006 | year=2009 | journal=Journal of Geophysical Research | last1 = Sprintall | first1 = Janet| issue=C7 | doi-access=free }} and dynamics of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current through the Drake passage. Sprintall studied barrier layers for her doctoral research,[http://catalogue.nla .gov.au/Record/389484 Ph.D. thesis from National Library of Australia] and as of 2016 is building on that work as a principal investigator with the NASA SPURS II project in the tropical Pacific.[http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/2016/08/29/8178/ NASA blog] As an expert in Pacific Ocean dynamics, she has been highly cited.{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&q=Janet+Sprintall&btnG=&as_sdt=1,5&as_sdtp=|title=Janet Sprintall - Google Scholar|website=scholar.google.co.uk|access-date=2017-02-04}} Sprintall provided plot advice for the TV series Lost.