Tom Sanford Named SECNAV/CNO Chair of Oceanographic Sciences

Congratulations to Tom Sanford, Principal Scientist at the Applied Physics Laboratory and Professor of Oceanography. Tom has been named a Secretary of the Navy/Chief of Naval Operations Chair of Oceanographic Sciences. This prestigious award, one of two nationwide, provides $300,000 per year of support for Tom and his postdocs and graduate students over the next four years. Tom's research interests include the measurement and interpretation of motionally-induced electric fields in the sea and within channels; structure and dynamics of ocean currents, eddies and waves; generation, propagation and dissipation of internal waves and microstructure; magnetotelluric studies in the deep sea; and oceanographic sensors and instrumentation. Tom has advised 7 Ph.D. students and 4 M.S. students and regularly taaught a popular course on methods and measurements in physical oceanography.