{"id":5,"date":"2017-09-23T09:15:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T13:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/template-blue-prepop\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2022-12-19T13:08:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T17:08:15","slug":"front-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/lpratt\/","title":{"rendered":"front page"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/lpratt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/120\/2019\/06\/IMG_2256_131053.jpg\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/lpratt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/120\/2019\/06\/IMG_2256_131053.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Larry J. Pratt\" height=\"1890\" width=\"1531\" title=\"IMG_2256_131053\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<h1>Dr. Larry J. Pratt<\/h1>\n<h3>Senior Scientist<\/h3>\n<strong>Contact Information<\/strong><br \/>\nWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution<br \/>\nMS #21, Clark 301A<br \/>\nWoods Hole, MA\u00a0 02543-1535<br \/>\nTel: (508) 289-2540<br \/>\nFax: (508) 289-2181<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:lpratt@whoi.edu\">lpratt@whoi.edu<\/a>\n<em>WHOI Mailing Address:<\/em><br \/>\nWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution<br \/>\n266 Woods Hole Road<br \/>\nMS #21<br \/>\nWoods Hole, MA\u00a0 02543-1535\n\t<h3>Education<\/h3>\nB. S., University of Wisconsin, 1975<br \/>\nM.S., University of Wisconsin, 1977<br \/>\nPh.D., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982\n\t<h3>Research Interests<\/h3>\nTheory and modeling of ocean and marginal sea circulation and mixing, with an emphasis on the lower limb of the meridional overturning circulation and mesoscale and submesoscale instability and turbulence.\u00a0 Sea strait hydraulics, including exchange flows, deep overflow, hydraulic jumps and interfacial mixing, upstream influence, climate monitoring.\u00a0 Abyssal circulation in deep canyons.\u00a0 The use of dynamical systems and chaos theory to understand mixing and stirring at various scales.\u00a0 The physical oceanography of marginal seas, including the Philippine and Indonesian Archipelagos and the Red Sea.\u00a0 The dynamics of ocean and atmospheric jets, including the Gulf Stream and the Kuroshio.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Larry J. Pratt Senior Scientist Contact Information Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution MS #21, Clark 301A Woods Hole, MA\u00a0 02543-1535 Tel: (508) 289-2540 Fax: (508) 289-2181 lpratt@whoi.edu WHOI Mailing Address: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 266 Woods Hole Road MS #21 Woods Hole, MA\u00a0 02543-1535 Education B. S., University of Wisconsin, 1975 M.S., University of Wisconsin,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/lpratt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/lpratt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/lpratt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/lpratt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/lpratt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/lpratt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/lpratt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/lpratt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}