Affiliation: NOAA / Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

Email: william.s.kessler@noaa.gov

Professional Experience

• Present positions:

  • Oceanographer
    Ocean Climate Research Division
    Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory / NOAA
    1991-Present

  • Affiliate Professor of Oceanography
    University of Washington

• Previous positions:

  • Postdoctoral Investigator
    Department of Physical Oceanography
    Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
    1989-1991

  • Postdoctoral Associate
    Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean
    University of Washington
    1989

  • Research Associate
    School of Oceanography
    University of Washington
    1983-1989

• Fellowships:

  • Egdvedt Fellowship
    University of Washington
    1982-83

  • Frohlich Fellowship
    CSIRO Marine Laboratory
    Hobart, Australia
    2001

  • Post Rouge
    IRD Centre de Noumea
    Noumea, New Caledonia
    2004

  • Post Rouge
    Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées
    Toulouse, France
    2010

Committee memberships and service

• Editor, Journal of Physical Oceanography (2011-)

• International CLIVAR Pacific Panel (2002-2007) and (2013-)

• U.S. CLIVAR Scientific Steering Committee (1998-2003)

• International CLIVAR Upper Ocean Panel (1995-2002)

• U.S. CLIVAR Pacific Implementation Panel (1998-2004)

• TAO Implementation Panel (1992-1998)