Neil S. Oakey

Ocean Sciences Division
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Dartmouth, NS
B2Y 4A2

Phone: (902) 426-3147
   Fax: (902) 426-3711
Email: oakeyn@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca

Education Background

• BSc - Physics, McGill University
• MSc - Physics, University of Saskatchewan
• PhD - Physics, McMaster University

Awards and Honours

• Merit Award for Scientific Excellence, Department of Fisheries and Oceans - 1988
• J.P. Tulley Medal in Oceanography, Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society - 1998

Research Interests

• Turbulent mixing and diapycnal diffusivity in the ocean.

Ruddick, B.R., N.S. Oakey and D. Hebert - 2010 - Measuring lateral heat flux across a thermohaline front: A model and observational test - Journal of Marine Research, 68, 523-539

Werner, S.R., Beardsley, R.C., Lentz, S.J., Hebert, D.L., and Oakey, N.S. - 2003 - Observations and modeling of the tidal bottom boundary layer on the southern flank of Georges Bank. - Journal of Geophysical Research, 108, 8005, doi:10.1029/2001JC001271.

Greenan, B.J.W., Oakey, N.S., Dobson, F.W. - 2001 - Estimates of dissipation in the ocean mixed layer using a quasi-horizontal microstructure profiler. - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 992-1004.

Burgett, R., Hebert, D., and Oakey, N.S. - 2001 - The vertical structure of turbulence on the southern flank of Georges Bank. - Journal of Geophysical Research, 106, No. C10, 22545-22558.

Oakey, N.S. - 2001 - Turbulence dissipation sensors. - Academic Press: Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences,3063-3069. J.H. Steele, S.A. Thorpe, K.K. Turekian (eds.).

Incze, L.S., Hebert, D., Wolff, N., Oakey, N., and Dye, D. - 2001 - Deepening of copepod distributions in response to increased turbulence from wind stress. - Marine Ecology, Progress Series, 229-240.

Oakey, N.S., and Ledwell, J.R. - 2001 - Dye and microstructure studies of mixing in the coastal mixing and optics experiment. - National Science Foundation Decadal Report, Ocean Sciences at the New Millennium. p. 60.

Greenan, B.J.W., Petrie, B., Harrison, G., and Oakey, N.S. - 2001 - Short-term physical chemical and biological variability on the Scotian Shelf. - Canadian Technical Report Hydrogr. Ocean. Science, Report 218, xi+106pp.

Oakey, N.S., and Cochrane, N.A. - 1999 - Turbulent mixing in solitons. The 1998 WHOI/IOS/ONR Internal Solitary Wave Workshop. - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Technical Report WHOI-99-07, Edited by T.F. Duda and D.M. Farmer, July 1999, p. 123.

Greenan, B.J.W., and Oakey, N.S. - 1998 - A tethered free-fall glider to measure ocean turbulence. - Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 1545-1555.

Ruddick, B.R., Walsh, D., and Oakey, N.S. - 1997 - Variations in apparent mixing efficiency in the North Atlantic central waters. - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 27, 2589-2605.