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D-Index
62
Citations
14626
World Ranking
1664
National Ranking
74

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1993 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1992 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 1981 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1977 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Chris Garrett is affiliated with the University of Victoria in Canada. The scientist has been recognized through multiple fellowships and memberships in prominent scientific organizations, reflecting an extended career engaged with the academic community.

The awards held by Chris Garrett include:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2006)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom (1993)
  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU) (1992)
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1981)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Science (1977)

The scientist's main institutional affiliation situates them within a Canadian context at an established university. This provides a base for their academic and research activities.

No specific recent papers, frequent co-authors, or publication venues have been documented for Chris Garrett in the available data. Similarly, there is no recorded information on book publications or detailed fields and subfields of study.

Although specific research topics are not outlined, the fellowships in the American Geophysical Union and the Royal Society suggest engagement with fields related to geophysics, earth sciences, or related domains.

The data reflects a scholar with a recognized academic profile indicated through prestigious honors and longstanding association with scientific societies. Available information highlights the scientist's integration and contributions to their discipline without detailed records of their research output or thematic focus in the source.

Best Publications

  • Space-Time Scales of Internal Waves' A Progress Report

    Christopher Garrett;Walter Munk

  • Space-Time scales of internal waves

    Christopher Garrett;Walter Munk

  • Internal Tide Generation in the Deep Ocean

    Chris Garrett;Eric Kunze

  • INTERNAL WAVES IN THE OCEAN

    C. Garrett;W. Munk

  • The Role of Internal Tides in Mixing the Deep Ocean

    Louis St. Laurent;Chris Garrett

  • The power potential of tidal currents in channels

    Chris Garrett;Patrick Cummins

  • Boundary Mixing and Arrested Ekman Layers: Rotating Stratified Flow Near a Sloping Boundary

    C. J. R. Garrett;P. MacCready;P. Rhines

  • Tidal Resonance in the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine

    Christopher Garrett

  • What is the near-inertial band and why is it different from the rest of the internal wave spectrum?

    Chris Garrett

  • Shear-Flow Dispersion, Internal Waves and Horizontal Mixing in the Ocean

    W. R. Young;P. B. Rhines;C. J. R. Garrett

  • Internal Tides and Ocean Mixing

    Chris Garrett

  • The Connection between Bubble Size Spectra and Energy Dissipation Rates in the Upper Ocean

    Chris Garrett;Ming Li;David Farmer

  • Climate Change and the Integrity of Science

    Jennifer Sills;P. H. Gleick;R. M. Adams;R. M. Amasino

  • The generation of internal tides at abrupt topography

    Louis St. Laurent;Steven Stringer;Chris Garrett;Dominique Perrault-Joncas

  • Tidal current energy assessment for Johnstone Strait, Vancouver Island

    G Sutherland;M Foreman;C Garrett

  • Mixing in the ocean interior

    Christopher Garrett

  • A regime diagram for classifying turbulent large eddies in the upper ocean

    Ming Li;Chris Garrett;Eric Skyllingstad

  • The Relationship Between Oil Droplet Size and Upper Ocean Turbulence

    Ming Li;Chris Garrett

  • On the initial streakness of a dispersing tracer in two- and three-dimensional turbulence

    Christopher Garrett

  • Oceanic mixing by breaking internal waves

    Christopher Garrett;Walter Munk

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter Munk
Walter Munk University of California, San Diego
Myriam Bormans
Myriam Bormans Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Keith R. Thompson
Keith R. Thompson Dalhousie University
Brian K. Arbic
Brian K. Arbic University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John W. Loder
John W. Loder Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Brian Petrie
Brian Petrie Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Carl Wunsch
Carl Wunsch Harvard University
Mary-Louise Timmermans
Mary-Louise Timmermans Yale University
Jeffery L. Dangl
Jeffery L. Dangl University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Detlef Weigel
Detlef Weigel Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology

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