Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA; email:
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Ann Rev Mar Sci. 2021 Jan;13:1-21. doi: 10.1146/annurev-marine-021320-125821. Epub 2020 Jun 5.
My career spanned the revolution in understanding of the large-scale fluid ocean, as modern electronics produced vast new capabilities. I started in the days of almost purely mechanical instruments operated by seagoing scientists, ones not so different from those used more than a century earlier. Elegant theories existed of hypothetical steady-state oceans. Today, we understand that the ocean is a highly turbulent fluid, interacting over global scales, and it is now studied by large teams using spacecraft and diverse sets of self-contained in situ instrumentation. Mine was an accidental career: I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time.
我的职业生涯跨越了对大规模流体海洋的理解革命，因为现代电子技术产生了巨大的新能力。我是在几乎完全由航海科学家操作的纯机械仪器的时代开始的，这些仪器与一个多世纪前使用的仪器并没有太大的不同。优雅的理论存在于假设的稳态海洋中。今天，我们知道海洋是一种高度动荡的流体，在全球范围内相互作用，现在由使用航天器和各种独立的原位仪器的大型团队进行研究。我的职业生涯是偶然的：我很幸运在正确的时间出现在正确的地点。
