Research Staff
Dr. Jeffery Scott
Position:
Research Scientist, EAPS
Office:54-1724
Phone:617-253-8426
Email: jscott@wind.mit.edu
Homepage: http://paoc.mit.edu/paoc/people/person.asp?position=Researcher&who=scott
Profile
Affiliation(s):
MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change;
MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Education:
Sc.B., Electrical Engineering, Brown University, 1985
M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University, 1995
Ph.D., Climate Physics and Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000
Research Interests:
Dr. Scott studies the role of the large-scale ocean circulation in climate, the interaction of the atmosphere and ocean, and the mixing of heat and carbon into the deep ocean. His research is investigating the response of the climate system to greenhouse forcing and to changes in orbital forcing parameters, and the energetics of the large-scale ocean circulation.