Kevin Speer

Speer Photo Professor

Physical Oceanography
Ph.D., MIT - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program, 1988

I am interested in general circulation of the oceans, especially the thermohaline circulation, and flow forced by hydrothermal or geothermal sources. My current research deals with Southern Ocean overturning and its relation to air-sea fluxes and eddy transport mechanisms. Ongoing projects include the direct observation of circulation in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean with subsurface floats. Studies of transport mechanisms for mass, heat, and salt are the fundamental motivation for these experiments and studies.