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Professional and Personal History
- Degrees
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison (Residency: Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences);
- M.S., Technion, Israel Institute of Technology (Hydrodynamics);
- B.S., Technion, Israel Institute of Technology (Hydraulic Engineering)
- Honors and awards, Professional societies
- External
- 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
- 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)
- Other forms of professional recognition
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.
Research Activities
- Publications
- Refereed publications in conventional oceanographic literature
- 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.
- Research Grants
| Dates | Funding Agency | Title | Amount |
| 1979-81 | Office of Naval Research | The Role of Diabatic Heating and Cooling in Boundary Current Dynamics | 39,686 | | 1981-82 | Office of Naval Research | Study of the Water Exchange between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean (through the Windward Passage) | 30,054 | | 1982-83 | Office of Naval Research | Mesoscale Processes in the Ocean | 48,685 | | 1983-85 | Office of Naval Research | Mesoscale Processes in the Ocean | 134,001 | | 1985-87 | Office of Naval Research | Mesoscale Processes in the Ocean | 195,460 | | 1987-88 | Office of Naval Research | Meso and Large-Scale Processes in the Ocean | 178,190 | | 1989-90 | Office of Naval Research | Mesoscale Processes in the Ocean | 182,091 | | 1987-90 | National Science Foundation | Theoretical Studies of Eddy-Environment Interaction | 147,658 | | 1988 | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Oceanic Current Model Development | 9,950 | | 1989 | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Oceanic Current Model Development | 9,950 | | 1990-94 | National Science Foundation | Non-linear Eddy-Environment Interactions | 356,850 | | 1991-92 | Office of Naval Research | Mesoscale Processes in the Ocean | 161,571 | | 1991-95 | National Science Foundation | Nonlinear Processes in High Latitudes | 240,000 | | 1993 | Office of Naval Research | Nonlinear Supermesoscale Processes in the Ocean | 34,445 | | 1995-98 | National Science Foundation | Flows through Multiple Gaps with Application to the Indonesian Throughflow | 239,000 | | 1995-96 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Studies of Variable Climate Processes | 122,400 | | 1996-99 | Office of Naval Research | How Much Water Passes Through each of the Southern Indonesian Passages? | 159,084 | | 1996-99 | National Science Foundation | Rings, Eddies and Retroflection as a Mechanism for Inter-basin | 248,633 | | 1997-98 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Studies of Variable Climate Processes | 76,867 | | 1997-2000 | Binational Science Foundation | Reddies as a means of exporting water from the Red Sea | 76,450 | | 1998-01 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Zonal Propagation of Nonlinear Oceanic Anomalies | 133,217 | | 1998-01 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Nonlinear Exchange Processes between the Pacific and the Indian Ocean (NASA Fellowship) | 66,000 | | 2000-02 | National Science Foundation | The Role of Agulhas Rings in the Western South Atlantic | 300,000 | | 2001-02 | Office of Naval Research | The Tsushima Warm Current and Its Various Branches | 115,864 | | 2001-04 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Variability of the Western Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden | 288,563 | | 2003-07 | NSF | The Agulhas-Brazil Current Domino | 398,967 | | 2003-06 | NASA | The Role of the Bering Strait in the General Oceanic and Circulation Climate | 72,000 | | 2005-08 | NSF | The Bering Strait as a Super Strait | 269,872 | | 2005-08 | NSF | The Agulhas Current System: A Key Control of the Atlantic System | 202,637 |
| Total: | 4,538,145 |
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Note: The above grants have been used to cover all research expenses save my nine (9) months annual salary which is provided by FSU.
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- Visiting scientists and post docs supported by research programs (for periods ranging from one month to a year)
- Invited and contributed talks (last five years)
- Invited presentations
- Contributed presentations
Teaching Activities
- Students for whom I am currently the major professor
- Students for whom I have been the major professor
- Student committees on which I have served other than as major professor (past five years)
- Courses I have taught at Florida State University (past five years)
| OCE 1001 Elementary Oceanography | 3Cr. | Spring 97, Fall 98, Spring 01, Spring 03 | | OCE 1001 Elementary Oceanography Honors | 3Cr. | Spring 95, Fall 97, Fall 99, Spring 02 | | OCE 5253 Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics | 3Cr. | Spring 00, Fall 01 | | OCE 5259 Rings and Eddies as Heat Exchange Mechanism | 3Cr. | Fall 96, Spring 99 |
- Other forms of teaching and teaching recognition
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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