John Marshall is a professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT. He has broad interests in climate and the general circulation of the atmosphere and oceans. His research is directed at understanding the cause of the general circulation of the oceans, its interaction with the atmosphere and its role in the global climate and climate change.
Research foci are: general circulation of the ocean, ocean convection and thermohaline circulation, ocean gyres and circumpolar currents, role of the ocean in climate, geophysical fluid dynamics, numerical modeling of the ocean and atmosphere.
Marshall also collaborates closely with the Goddard Institute for Space Studies of Columbia University where he is an adjunct senior research scientist in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics.
Supervisor of 20 or so Ph.D. students and 40 postdoctoral researchers:
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Author or coauthor of 230 or so refereed publications: complete list here.
Awards:
1986: L.F. Richardson Prize of the Royal Meteorological Society
2004: Adrian Gill Prize of the Royal Meteorological Society
2008: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, UK National Academy of Sciences
2014: Elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society
2014: Sverdrup Gold Medal of the American Meteorological Society
2016: Bernhard Haurwitz Prize of the American Meteorological Society
2020: A.G. Huntsman Award of the Royal Society of Canada
