PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH
June 17, 1960, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Tropical Atmosphere - Ocean Interaction,
Numerical Modeling of Upper Ocean Processes,
Global ocean circulation dynamics.
EDUCATION
Ph. D. in Physical Oceanography; 1991.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Joint Program in Physical Oceanography.
Dissertation Title: Observations of Wave-Mean Flow Interaction
in the Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent. Thesis advisor: Harry L. Bryden.
B. S. in Physics; 1982.
University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Jan 1994 - present Associate Scientist.
National Center for Atmospheric Research.
March 1993 - Jan 1994 Visiting Scientist.
National Center for Atmospheric Research.
1991 - 1993 UCAR Postdoctoral Investigator in Ocean Modeling.
National Center for Atmospheric Research.
1990 - 1991, 1982 - 1987 Graduate Research Assistant.
Dept. of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
1988 - 1989 Research Assistant.
Dept. of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
1981 Summer Research Assistant.
Department of Chemical Oceanography, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory.
RELATED ACTIVITIES
1989 Cruise Coordinator and Chief Scientist(leg 3) of the Transpacific CTD/ADCP Survey at 10oN on R/V Moana Wave.
1987 Participation in Gulf Stream CTD/XBT/ADCP Survey on R/V Endeavor.
1985 Participation in Tropic Heat Microstructure/ADCP Survey of the Equatorial Pacific Ocean on R/V Thomas Thompson.
FELLOWSHIPS
UCAR Postdoctoral Fellow in Ocean Modeling, 1991.
Graduate Student Fellow, NATO ASI on Physical Oceanographic Numerical Modeling, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France, June 1985.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
American Geophysical Union
PUBLICATIONS
Brady, E. C., S. L. Thompson, and R. M. DeConto, 1997: Deep Water Production and Poleward Ocean Heat Transport in the Warm Climate Extreme of the Cretaceous (80Ma), Geophysical Research Letters, 25, 4205-4208.
Esther C. Brady, 1994: The seasonal cycle of meridional heat transport in a numerical model of the Pacific equatorial upwelling zone. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 24, 2658-2673.
Esther C. Brady, 1994: Interannual heat transport in a numerical model of the Pacific equatorial upwelling zone. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 24, 2675-2694.
Esther C. Brady, 1990: Observations of wave-mean flow interaction in the Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent. Ph. D. Thesis. MIT/WHOI Joint Program, WHOI-90-51, 216 pp.
Esther C. Brady and Harry L. Bryden, 1987: Estimating vertical velocity on the equator. Oceanologica Acta No SP, Proceedings International Symposium on Equatorial Vertical Motion, Paris, 6-10 May 1985, 33-37.
Harry L. Bryden and Esther C. Brady, 1989: Eddy momentum and heat fluxes and their effects on the circulation of the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Journal of Marine Research, 47, 55-79.
Harry L. Bryden and Esther C. Brady, 1985: Diagnostic model of the three-dimen-sional circulation in the upper equatorial Pacific Ocean. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 15, 1255-1273.
Harry L. Bryden, Esther C. Brady, and David Halpern, 1986: Lateral mixing in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Further Progress in Equatorial Oceanography: A Report of the U.S. TOGA Workshop on the Dynamics of the Equatorial Oceans. E. Katz and J. Witte, Eds., Nova University Press.
H. L. Bryden, E. C. Brady, and R. D. Pillsbury, 1989: Flow through the Strait of Gibraltar. Proceedings Seminario sobre la Oceanografia Fisica del Estrecho de Gibraltar, in Madrid, 24-28 October 1988. Published by SECEG, 166-194.
Luanne Thompson and Esther Brady, 1989: The pilot moorings of the Gibraltar Experiment: Flow over the Camarinal Sill. Proceedings Seminario sobre la Oceanografia Fisica del Estrecho de Gibraltar, in Madrid, 24-28 October 1988. Published by SECEG, 151-165.
Judith S. Young, N. Z. Scoville, and Esther Brady, 1985: The dependence
of CO content in morphological type and luminosity for spiral galaxies
in the Virgo Cluster. Astrophysical Journal, 288(2), Part
I, 487-493.