{"id":5,"date":"2017-11-16T17:05:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T21:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/template-blue-prepop\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2025-08-19T13:12:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:12:41","slug":"front-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/","title":{"rendered":"front page"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2025\/08\/dave-ralston-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Ralston\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n\t<h2>Dr. David Ralston<\/h2>\nSenior Scientist<br \/>\nApplied Ocean Physics &amp; Engineering Department\n<strong>Contact Information:<\/strong><br \/>\nWork: 508-289-2587<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:dralston@whoi.edu\">dralston@whoi.edu<\/a><br \/>\nBuilding: Bigelow 212\n<strong>Mailing Address:<\/strong><br \/>\n266 Woods Hole Road,\u00a0MS #11<br \/>\nWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution<br \/>\nWoods Hole, MA 02543\n\t<h3>Research Interests<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;m interested in fluid mechanics and transport processes in estuaries and the coastal ocean, including exchange and residence time, sediment transport, bathymetric effects, frontal processes, and physical-biological interactions. My approach typically mixes field observations and numerical modeling, taking advantage of the benefits and recognizing the limitations of each.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2025\/07\/Ralston_CV_202507_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDownload CV\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<h3>Education<\/h3>\n<p>Ph.D., Civil &amp; Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA<\/p>\n<p>M.S., Civil &amp; Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA<\/p>\n<p>B.S. and B.A., Civil &amp; Environmental Engineering, Rice University<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. David Ralston Senior Scientist Applied Ocean Physics &amp; Engineering Department Contact Information: Work: 508-289-2587 dralston@whoi.edu Building: Bigelow 212 Mailing Address: 266 Woods Hole Road,\u00a0MS #11 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, MA 02543 Research Interests I&#8217;m interested in fluid mechanics and transport processes in estuaries and the coastal ocean, including exchange and residence time,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}