Professor

Education

• A.B. 1982 - Physics, University of California, Berkeley
• Ph.D 1989 - Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USCD

Research Interests

• Coastal Oceanography
• Surface and Internal Waves
• Sea Level Variability

Teaching Activities

• OCN 760 - Special Topics in Physical Oceanography: Data Analysis
• OCN 620 - Physical Oceanography
• ORE 608 - Statistics for Ocean Engineers
• OCN 699, 700, 800 - Directed, Thesis and Dissertation Research

Ten Selected Publications

Holloway, P. E., and M. A. Merrifield, Internal tide generation by seamounts, ridges, and islands, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 25937-25951, 1999.

Merrifield, M. A., B. Kilonsky, S. Nakahara, Interannual sea level changes in the tropical Pacific associated with ENSO, Geophys. Rev. Lett., 1999.

Johnston, T. M. S., and M. A. Merrifield, Interannual geostrophic current anomalies in the near-equatorial western Pacific, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 30, 3-14, 2000.

Dail, H. J., M. A. Merrifield, and M. Bevis, Steep beach morphology changes due to energetic wave forcing, Mar. Geology, 162, 443-458, 2000.

Foster, J., M. Bevis, T. Schroeder, M. Merrifield, S. Businger, S. Dorn, S. Marcus, J. Dickey, and Y. Bar-Sever, El Nino, water vapor, and the Global Positioning System, Geophys. Rev. Lett, 27, 2697-2700, 2000.

Merrifield, M. A., P. E. Holloway, T. M. S. Johnston, Internal tide generation at the Hawaiian Ridge, Geophys. Rev. Lett., 28, 559-562, 2001.

Merrifield, M. A., and P.E. Holloway, Model estimates of M2 internal tide energetics at the Hawaiian Ridge, J. Geophys. Res., 107, 10.1029/2001JC00996, 2002.

Merrifield, M. A., L. Yang, and D. S. Luther, Numerical simulations of a storm generated island-trapped wave event at the Hawaiian Islands, J. Geophys. Res., 107, 3169, doi:10.1029/2001JC001134, 2002.

Holloway, P. E., and M. A. Merrifield, On the spring-neap variability and age of the internal tide at the Hawaiian Ridge, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 3126, doi:10.1029/2002JC001486, 2003

Johnston, T.M.S., and M. A. Merrifield, Internal Tide Scattering at Seamounts, Ridges, and Islands, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 3180, doi:10.1029/2002JC001528, 2003.