Contact Information
Institute of Marine Science129 O'Neill
P.O. Box 757220
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7220
Phone: (907) 474-5729
Fax: (907) 474-7204
hsimmons@sfos.uaf.edu
Harper Simmons Associate Professor
Physical Oceanography
Courses
Fall 2009
Research Overview
Physical oceanographers seek an understanding of how and why the ocean stores and circulates heat and materials such as salts, and how this storage and circulation evolves over time. The scientific challenge that physical oceanographers wrestle with is how to obtain a unified description of dynamical processes occuring over an immense range of spatial and temporal scales.