David Farmer, FRSC, FRS
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David M. Farmer, FRSC, FRS
Dean, Graduate School of Oceanography401-874-6222Educational Background
Ph.D., Physics
M.S., Marine Physics
University of British Columbia
McGill University
1972
1969
Areas of Specialization
Research
Upper ocean physics including air-sea interaction, surface and internal waves, air-entrainment, bubble properties and behavior, turbulence; the interaction of stratified flow with topography; exchange through sea straits, nonlinear internal wave generation and propagation, seismic behavior of sea ice; fjord dynamics; acoustical oceanography; the impact of sound on marine mammals. <br > <br /> "The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living." Henri Poincaré<br /> <br />Students
Li Qiang (URI)
Burkard Baschek (U Victoria)
Ph.D.
Ph.D.
current
2003
Publications:
Gemmrich, Johannes R.; David M Farmer, 2004, Turbulence in the presence of Breaking Waves: Journal of Physical Oceanography, 34 (5), 1067-1068.
Moum, J., David M Farmer, W Smyth, L Armi, S Vagle, (2003), Structure and Generation of Turbulence at Interfaces Strained by Internal Solitary Waves Propagating Shoreward over the Continental Shelf, J. Phys Oceanogr, 33, 2093-2112.
Thorpe, S.A., T.R. Osborne & D. M. Farmer & S Vagle, 2003, Bubble clouds and Langmuir circulation: observations and models, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 33 (9), 2013-2031.
Farmer, D., R Pawlowicz & R Jiang, 2002, Tilting separation flows: a mechanism for intense mixing in the coastal ocean; Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 36 (1), 43-58Presentations:
'A Strait Affair: The Oceanography of Sea Straits', Riley Lecture, 2004, Dalhousie University.
