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Eric D'Asaro is a Senior Principal Oceanographer and Professor of Oceanography at the Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington (APL-UW). He is affiliated with the Ocean Physics department and has made significant contributions to the field of physical oceanography over his extensive career.
Dr. D'Asaro earned his B.A. and M.S. in Physics from Harvard University in 1976, followed by a Ph.D. in Oceanography from MIT/WHOI in 1980. His educational background provided the foundation for his innovative research at the intersection of fluid mechanics, oceanography, and engineering.
Dr. D'Asaro's research spans a wide number of environments from upper ocean mixed layers to nearshore coastal fronts to fjords to deep convection. Starting from a core interest in turbulence and internal waves, his work has expanded to include new aspects of small-scale oceanography, including submesoscale processes, and the role of all of these mixing processes in controlling biochemical processes in the ocean. For the past 30 years, his experimental work has focused on exploiting the unique capabilities of "Lagrangian Floats," a class of instruments that try to accurately follow the three dimensional motion of water parcels particularly in regions of strong mixing. By measuring big signals, like hurricanes or major blooms, it is easier to unravel the underlying processes because the signal to noise is high.
His work bridges fluid mechanics, oceanography, and engineering, making significant contributions to our understanding of ocean mixing processes and their role in global climate systems. His research has important implications for climate modeling, carbon cycling, and predicting the behavior of extreme weather events like hurricanes.
- Wave Measurements at Ocean Weather Station PAPA
- Air-Sea Momentum Flux in Tropical Cyclones
- Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study (SPURS)
- Lateral Mixing
- Autonomous Lagrangian Floats for Oxygen Minimum Zone Biogeochemistry
- Hurricane Lagrangian Floats
- North Atlantic Bloom
- EXPORTS: Export Processes in the Ocean from RemoTe Sensing
- Lagrangian Submesoscale Experiment (LASER)
Dr. D'Asaro's laboratory and research team focus on developing and deploying innovative instrumentation for oceanographic measurements, particularly Lagrangian floats that can accurately follow water parcels. His work has resulted in numerous publications spanning from 2000 to the present, with a particularly high output in recent years (2023-2025).
