{"id":62522,"date":"2011-11-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-alumnus-receives-presidential-early-career-award\/"},"modified":"2011-11-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T00:00:00","slug":"uri-alumnus-receives-presidential-early-career-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/11\/uri-alumnus-receives-presidential-early-career-award\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 alumnus receives Presidential Early Career Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I.–November 18, 2011–Shortly after disembarking from a research ship in Italy last month, 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s alumnus Jeffrey Book, a civilian physical oceanographer at the Naval Research Lab (NRL) at Stennis Space Center, Miss., flew to Washington, D.C. where he was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award. The award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on scientists and engineering professionals in the early stages of their research careers.<\/p>\n


\n\tJeff\u2019s journey to the White House began in a small town near Cincinnati, Ohio where, as a young boy, he often pretended to be Jacques Cousteau-like, researching undersea biology in his backyard. The path veered to physics studies at the University of Missouri-Rolla. After graduation, he applied to several graduate schools, including our Graduate School of Oceanography. The GSO and oceanography were not his first choices, but all that changed when he visited the campus. You could say it was love at first sight\u2014with the school and later that summer with 溏心vlog免费B站 1996 alumna Majorie Kelner, his future wife.<\/p>\n


\n\tJeff earned his master\u2019s degree in 1998 and his doctorate in 2007 from 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Graduate School of Oceanography. Oceanographer Mark Wimbush was Jeff\u2019s advisor for his master\u2019s thesis and his Ph.D. dissertation. \u201cMark\u2019s teaching and mentorship has played a huge role in my \u201cearly career\u201d and I try my best to model his dedication to learning, teaching, and excellence in science. My training at GSO influences nearly all of my work, especially the emphasis on understanding ocean dynamics through observation,\u201d says the award winner.<\/p>\n


\n\tStarting full time at the NRL in 1999, one of Jeff\u2019s first assignments was a continuation of his collaboration with Wimbush and the GSO\u2019s Randy Watts in the Sea of Japan.<\/p>\n


\n\tHis work as principal investigator for the Navy lab project, Dynamics of the Adriatic in Real Time, with the NATO Undersea Research Centre and 23 other institutions, has led to an improved understanding of how waters of different characteristics interact when they meet at ocean boundaries and form complex flow structures that can affect activities taking place in the sea. Those observations can be used to evaluate our ability to predict the ocean in the short term with numerical models.\t<\/p>\n


\n\tJeff contributed to the development and use of new technologies to measure ocean structures and provide the data in real-time so it can be immediately used by prediction models to make more accurate forecasts of ocean conditions.<\/p>\n


\n\tJeff is continuing such work off the North West Shelf of Australia, studying the effect of strong tides on ocean predictability, but early in 2012 he will shift gears a bit for a case study on ocean fine structure off South Africa. \u201cMy recent work on the Agulhus Return Current has brought me full circle to my 溏心vlog免费B站 masters thesis work on the Kuroshio current as once again I am working on Western Boundary Current Dynamics,\u201d the oceanographer says. <\/p>\n


\nPhoto courtesy of Naval Research Lab (NRL) at Stennis Space Center<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I.–November 18, 2011–Shortly after disembarking from a research ship in Italy last month, 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s alumnus Jeffrey Book, a civilian physical oceanographer at the Naval Research Lab (NRL) at Stennis Space Center, Miss., flew to Washington, D.C. where he was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award. The award is the highest honor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}