{"id":427,"date":"2025-05-07T21:25:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T21:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/jcm\/?page_id=427"},"modified":"2025-09-30T20:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:00:52","slug":"bio-and-cv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/jcm\/bio-and-cv\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/jcm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/05\/jim_at_sea_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/jcm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/05\/jim_at_sea_2.jpg 450w, https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/jcm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/05\/jim_at_sea_2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>2011 UCLA Kodiak cruise to measure submesoscale fronts and currents near Catalina Island<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James C. McWilliams received his college degrees in Applied Mathematics:&nbsp; a B.S. (with honors) in 1968 from Caltech, and a M.S. in 1969 and Ph.D. in 1971 from Harvard.&nbsp; After holding a research fellowship in geophysical fluid dynamics at Harvard (1971-74), he worked in the Oceanography Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), where he became a senior scientist in 1980.&nbsp; In 1994 he became the Louis B. Slichter Professor of Earth Sciences in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Institute of Geophysical and Planetary Sciences at UCLA. &nbsp;He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and a member of&nbsp;the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His primary areas of scientific research are the fluid dynamics of Earth&#8217;s oceans and atmosphere, both their theory and computational modeling.\u00a0 Particular subjects include the maintenance of the general circulations; climate dynamics; oceanic currents; geostrophically and cyclostrophically balanced (or slow manifold) dynamics in rotating, stratified fluids; vortex dynamics; planetary boundary layers; planetary-scale thermohaline convection; coherent structures in turbulent flows; magnetohydrodynamic dynamos; biogeochemical and ecosystem modeling; coastal and nearshore waves and currents;\u00a0numerical algorithms; and \u00a0statistical estimation theory. \u00a0He is a co-creator of the Regional Oceanic Modeling System (ROMS), a widely used circulation code for highly turbulent currents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2011 UCLA Kodiak cruise to measure submesoscale fronts and currents near Catalina Island James C. McWilliams received his college degrees in Applied Mathematics:&nbsp; a B.S. (with honors) in 1968 from Caltech, and a M.S. in 1969 and Ph.D. in 1971 from Harvard.&nbsp; After holding a research fellowship in geophysical fluid dynamics at Harvard (1971-74), he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-427","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/jcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/jcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/jcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/jcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/jcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/jcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/jcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/427\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/jcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}