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PMEL Scientist Receives 2013 Georg Wüst Prize

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PMEL's Dr. Gregory Johnson (left) and Prof. Jörg-Olaf Wolff (right), the chief editor of the journal Ocean Dynamics. Credit: Sunke Schmidtko

NOAA/PMEL Oceanographer Gregory C. Johnson received the 2013 Georg Wüst Prize for outstanding achievement in marine science from the German Society for Marine Research in an 8 April ceremony at the European Geosciences Union's General Assembly in Vienna, Austria. This biennial prize is sponsored by Springer Verlag's Ocean Dynamics.  Immediately prior to the award, Dr. Johnson gave a keynote science lecture entitled "Warming, Contraction, and Freshening of Antarctic Bottom Water since the 1990s, with a Potential Ice-Sheet Melt Feedback".

Johnson leads the PMEL's Argo Ocean Floats program.

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