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Doron Nof, Ph.D.Name: Doron Nof, Ph.D.
Email: nof@fsu.edu
Title: Fridtjof Nansen Professor of Physical Oceanography		Phone: 850/644-2736
Fax: 850/644-2581
Education:
Ph.D.University of Wisconsin, Madison
M.S. Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
B.S. Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

About:
Dr. Nof's Biographical History
  1. Professional and Personal History
  2. Research Activities
  3. Teaching Activities

  1. Professional and Personal History

    1. Degrees
      1. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison (Residency: Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences);
      2. M.S., Technion, Israel Institute of Technology (Hydrodynamics);
      3. B.S., Technion, Israel Institute of Technology (Hydraulic Engineering)

    2. Honors and awards, Professional societies
      1. External

      2. Internal
        • Florida State University Superior Honors Teacher Award 1999-2000
        • Florida State University Professorial Excellence Program award 1998
        • Florida State University Teaching Incentive Program award 1998
        • Florida State University Named Professorship 2002
        • Florida State University Distinguished Research Professor 2003

    3. Professional associations
      • American Association for the Advancement of Science (member)
      • American Geophysical Union (member)
      • American Meteorological Society (Fellow)
      • European Geophysical Society (member)
      • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Fellow)
      • Royal Meteorological Society (Fellow)
      • Sigma Xi (member)

    4. Other forms of professional recognition

        5. Research on parting of the Red Sea (see articles 46 and 56, below) discussed in articles in Science, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Discover, and the Britannica 1994 Yearbook of Science and the Future, and on the Public Broadcast Service (PBS). The oceanographic effects of China's Three Gorges Dam is discussed in Science Newsand Florida State Times.

  2. Research Activities

    1. Publications
      1. Refereed publications in conventional oceanographic literature

      2. Publications in other refereed literature
        • Nof, D., 1990: The breakup of outflows and the formation of 'Meddies'. The Physical Oceanography of Sea Straits, L. J. Pratt, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 559-566.
        • Nof, D., 1988: Nonlinear intrusions. Mesoscale/Synoptic Coherent Structures in Geophysical Turbulence, Nihoul & Jamart, eds., Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Amsterdam, 113-134.

    2. Research Grants
        3. Dates Funding AgencyTitleAmount
        1979-81Office of Naval ResearchThe Role of Diabatic Heating and Cooling in Boundary Current Dynamics39,686
        1981-82Office of Naval ResearchStudy of the Water Exchange between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean (through the Windward Passage)30,054
        1982-83Office of Naval ResearchMesoscale Processes in the Ocean48,685
        1983-85Office of Naval ResearchMesoscale Processes in the Ocean134,001
        1985-87Office of Naval ResearchMesoscale Processes in the Ocean195,460
        1987-88Office of Naval ResearchMeso and Large-Scale Processes in the Ocean178,190
        1989-90Office of Naval ResearchMesoscale Processes in the Ocean182,091
        1987-90National Science FoundationTheoretical Studies of Eddy-Environment Interaction147,658
        1988National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationOceanic Current Model Development9,950
        1989National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationOceanic Current Model Development9,950
        1990-94National Science FoundationNon-linear Eddy-Environment Interactions356,850
        1991-92Office of Naval ResearchMesoscale Processes in the Ocean161,571
        1991-95National Science FoundationNonlinear Processes in High Latitudes240,000
        1993Office of Naval ResearchNonlinear Supermesoscale Processes in the Ocean34,445
        1995-98National Science FoundationFlows through Multiple Gaps with Application to the Indonesian Throughflow239,000
        1995-96National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationStudies of Variable Climate Processes122,400
        1996-99Office of Naval ResearchHow Much Water Passes Through each of the Southern Indonesian Passages?159,084
        1996-99National Science FoundationRings, Eddies and Retroflection as a Mechanism for Inter-basin248,633
        1997-98National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationStudies of Variable Climate Processes76,867
        1997-2000Binational Science FoundationReddies as a means of exporting water from the Red Sea76,450
        1998-01National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationZonal Propagation of Nonlinear Oceanic Anomalies133,217
        1998-01National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNonlinear Exchange Processes between the Pacific and the Indian Ocean (NASA Fellowship)66,000
        2000-02National Science FoundationThe Role of Agulhas Rings in the Western South Atlantic300,000
        2001-02Office of Naval ResearchThe Tsushima Warm Current and Its Various Branches115,864
        2001-04National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationVariability of the Western Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden288,563
        2003-07NSFThe Agulhas-Brazil Current Domino398,967
        2003-06NASA The Role of the Bering Strait in the General Oceanic and Circulation Climate 72,000
        2005-08NSFThe Bering Strait as a Super Strait269,872
        2005-08NSFThe Agulhas Current System: A Key Control of the Atlantic System202,637
        Total:4,538,145
        Note: The above grants have been used to cover all research expenses save my nine (9) months annual salary which is provided by FSU.

    3. Visiting scientists and post docs supported by research programs (for periods ranging from one month to a year)
    4. Invited and contributed talks (last five years)
      1. Invited presentations
      2. Contributed presentations

  3. Teaching Activities

    1. Students for whom I am currently the major professor
    2. Students for whom I have been the major professor
    3. Student committees on which I have served other than as major professor (past five years)
    4. Courses I have taught at Florida State University (past five years)
        5. OCE 1001 Elementary Oceanography3Cr.Spring 97, Fall 98, Spring 01, Spring 03
        OCE 1001 Elementary Oceanography Honors3Cr.Spring 95, Fall 97, Fall 99, Spring 02
        OCE 5253 Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics3Cr.Spring 00, Fall 01
        OCE 5259 Rings and Eddies as Heat Exchange Mechanism3Cr.Fall 96, Spring 99

    5. Other forms of teaching and teaching recognition

        6. An instrument developed by me to demonstrate physical oceanic processes to nonscientists was featured on the PBS educational television program "Scientific American Frontiers" (1994).

     
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