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Position
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Programme Specialist GOOS, GSSC, Web Services
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Institution
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Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
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Expertise
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Physical Oceanographer,
Numerical Modeling,
Operational Models,
Cyberinfrastructure
Phd: University of Washington
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Nationality
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United States
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Email
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t.gross@unesco.org
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Tel
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+33 1 45 68 39 92
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Fax
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+33 1 45 68 58 12
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Website
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http://ioc-goos.org
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Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
1 rue Miollis
75732 Paris cedex 15
France
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Notes
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Tom Gross manages communications and outreach for the Global Ocean Observation System at UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. He has a passion for mathematics and prior to coming to IOC in 2007 worked for nearly a decade on numerical models of ecosystem dynamics and operational tidal models of the Chesapeake Bay for NOAA's Coast Survey Development Laboratory in Silver Spring, Maryland.
During part of this time, he also coordinated a Chesapeake Research Consortium program to create community owned Open Source hydrodynamic and ecosystem models for the Chesapeake Bay research community.
Tom got bit with the numerical modeling bug during the 1996 summer Olympics. At the time, he was at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography in Savannah, GA, investigating the applications of turbidity theory and sediment transport. For the Olympic sailing races he and a colleague—Francisco Werner, now at Rutgers—decided to put together a model to predict the currents and tides along the coast of Savannah. The day before each race he and Werner would provide all the coaches an update on the local conditions and what the athletes should expect from the Atlantic Ocean. From that experience Tom's work on operational, or daily, tidal modeling began. GOOS relies significantly on operational modeling as part of its service to provide oceanic predictions based on monitoring.
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