Shaun Dolk

Research Highlights

ERDDAP Server Increases Access to Drifting Buoy Data

The Global Drifter Program Launches a New Interactive Map Tool

NOAA’s Global Drifter Program Partners with the National Data Buoy Center to Support US Navy-funded Spotter Drifter Deployments

Shaun Dolk, PhD.

Manager of Drifter Operations Center, Physical Oceanography Division 

 305.361.4546

Shaun.Dolk@noaa.gov

4301 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, Florida 33149

About

Shaun Dolk is the Manager of the Drifter Operations Center for NOAA’s Global Drifter Program.

Education

2014, M.P.S Weather, Climate, & Society, University of Miami’s Rosensteil School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Virginia Key, FL

2003, B.S. Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Awards

Department of Commerce Bronze Medal 2022

For scientific achievement in the design and implementation of the complex Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign.

NOAA Team Member of the Month July 2014

For professionalism, commitment to excellence, and outreach efforts including support of NOAA’s “Adopt a Drifter” program which helps school children learn about the ocean by adopting and tracking their very own drifting buoy.