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Dr. Rick Lumpkin's main interests include upper ocean dynamics, ocean circulation and its variability, and density-transforming processes (mixing and air-sea forcing).

Rick has been working at AOML since November 2002. Previously, he collaborated with Kevin Speer at Florida State University, held a postdoctoral position at IFREMER in France under Anne-Marie Treguier, and completed his Ph.D. in December 1998 at the University of Hawaii (Pierre Flament, advisor).

Rick is scientific director of the Global Drifter Program. He analyzes the drifter observations to map surface circulation, and their variations, and to understand their role in regulating upper-ocean heat budgets and air-sea heat exchanges. He also assists in generating products from these data, verifies quality control conducted by the Drifting Buoy Data Assembly Center, and assists the Drifter Operations Center in planning deployments. He is also a PI in the CLIMODE project and a member of the PIRATA Science Steering Group.

Rick is also a principle investigator of AOML's contribution to the African Monsoon Multiplinary Analyses, and is chief scientist of an AMMA cruise aboard the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown in which an extension of the PIRATA array will be deployed in the northeast Tropical Atlantic, in collaboration with researchers at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory.