- To apply for PODS V
- Complete the online application.
- Return the completed signature form by 18 April 2008.
PODS V
Physical Oceanography Dissertation Symposium
October 5–10, 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii
History of PODS
The Physical Oceanography Dissertation Symposium (PODS) held its inaugural meeting in Breckenridge, Colorado, June 17–21, 2002. This program is designed to introduce new PhD graduates to each other, to the physical oceanographic community, to the granting agencies and to promote the exchange of recent research results and ideas.
PODS selected 21 participants from a diverse set of institutions, ranging from University of North Carolina to University of Hawaii with far reaching participants from the University of Reading, UK and the University of New South Wales, Australia who will be doing their postdoctoral studies in the United States.
Dr. Walter Munk, one of the most acclaimed oceanographers of our time, gave the keynote presentation, "The Evolution of Physical Oceanography in the Last 100 Years". The meeting featured detailed presentations from each of the new graduates intermixed with discussion sessions on topics relevant to young investigators, such as new directions of science, proposal-writing, and how to initiate research programs.
The research topics discussed reflected current scientific and societal priorities including the energetics of the thermohaline circulation and its role in climate, the structure of estuarine and coastal exchanges, the role of internal tides in energy dissipation in the ocean, the formation of water masses in subtropical oceans, and the processes governing mixing and air-sea interaction.
The symposium participants published an article EOS,(83)45,2002 describing the results of the meeting and have also presented a paper on the optimum graduate student education, resulting from discussions at PODS(EOS,(83)47,2002. A follow on article is to appear in Oceanography in 2003.