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Member Since 1989
Michael A. Spall
Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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Professional Experience
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Senior Scientist
1990 - Present
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Visiting Scientist
1988 - 1989
Education
Harvard University
Doctorate
Michael's AGU Research
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Shelf–Fjord Exchange Regulated by Recirculating Greenland Meltwater in Glacial Troughs
ICE SHEET–OCEAN INTERACTIONS: FROM MICRO- TO CLIMATE-SCALE V POSTER
high latitude environments | 26 february 2026
Water mass transformation in an idealised model of the East Greenland Current
OVERTURNING CIRCULATION AND WATER MASS TRANSFORMATION IN THE NORTHERN OCEANS II POSTER
high latitude environments | 25 february 2026
AGU Harald Ulrik Sverdrup Lecture: And then it sinks: Ups and downs of the Meridional Overturning Circulation
OCEAN SCIENCES MEETING 2026 AWARD PLENARY
plenaries | 25 february 2026
Upside-Down Bathymetry: Influence of Ice Thickness on the Arctic Ocean Circulation
IMPROVING UNDERSTANDING OF PROCESSES IN THE HIGH-LATITUDE AND SEA ICE–COVERED OCEANS: ONGOING AND FUTURE OBSERVATION AND MODELING EFFORTS III ORAL
high latitude environments | 24 february 2026
Has “Atlantification” arrived in the Beaufort Gyre?
LARGE-SCALE CHANGES IN THE ARCTIC AND SUBARCTIC: PROCESSES AND IMPACTS V POSTER
high latitude environments | 24 february 2026
Role of eddies in the MOC pathways from the subtropical to the subpolar gyre
ATLANTIC OCEAN CONNECTIVITY ACROSS LATITUDES: LARGE-SCALE PROCESSES, OBSERVATIONS, MODELING, AND IMPACTS II ORAL
physical oceanography | 23 february 2026
Peer Review as Community Science: Reflections from a Global Survey of Earth Scientists
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: COMMUNITY SCIENCE AND CITIZEN SCIENCE II POSTER
science and society | 17 december 2025
The Eulerian‐Mean Downwelling in the Western Subpolar North Atlantic
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: OCEANS
07 october 2025
Volunteer Experience
2000 - 2000
Editor
JGR Oceans Section
Honors & Awards
Harald Sverdrup Lecture
Received December 2025
Outstanding Reviewer Award - JGR-Oceans
Received December 2019