Postdoctoral Advisees: Dan Kelley (Dalhousie U.), Yves Gouriou (IRD, France), Joanna Muench (U. Washington), Harvey Seim (UNC Chapel Hill), Sabine Mecking (U. Washington\/APL), Sylvia Cole (WHOI), Isabela Le Bras (WHOI\/SIO), Ruth Musgrave (Dalhousie U.), Elizabeth Fine (SIO)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\tEducation<\/h3>\n
Sc.D. Physical Oceanography, 1980. MIT\/WHOI Joint Program<\/p>\n
B.A. Physics, 1975. University of Maine<\/p>\n\t
Biography<\/h3>\n
Having an aptitude for mathematics and physics and a passion for sailing, it was natural for John\u00a0Toole<\/strong> to go into the ocean sciences, specifically the discipline of Physical Oceanography.\u00a0 John earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maine in spring 1975 after spending the previous summer as a WHOI Summer Student Fellow in the Physical Oceanography (PO) Department.\u00a0 That experience motivated his application to the MIT\/WHOI Joint Program that awarded him a Doctorate of Science degree in 1980.\u00a0 After a 2-year National Research Council postdoctoral position at NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, he returned to join the WHOI PO scientific staff where he advanced to Senior Scientist in 1996.\u00a0\u00a0 In addition to advising the occasional student, John maintains an eclectic research portfolio investigating ocean mixing processes and their influence on circulation, the mean global heat and fresh water budgets and the roles of water mass formation and ocean currents,\u00a0 variability of the ocean’s stratification and circulation at seasonal, interannual and decadal time scales and polar ocean processes, \u00a0leading instrument development efforts when the science need exists.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. John M. Toole Emeritus Research Scientist Department Physical Oceanography Contact Information: Work: 508-289-2531 jtoole@whoi.edu Office: 211A Clark Laboratory Mailing Address: 266 Woods Hole Road, MS #29 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, MA 02543 Toole_CV_long_June_2025 Research Interests polar ocean processes, air-ice-ocean interaction mechanisms and intensity of ocean mixing and its influences…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/jtoole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/jtoole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/jtoole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/jtoole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/jtoole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/jtoole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/jtoole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/jtoole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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