Andreas Muenchow

Andreas Muenchow came to ESR in 2025 after 25 year at the University of Delaware. As a Professor of Physical Ocean Science and Engineering he raised funds to support field experiments and taught graduate and undergraduate students in ocean physics and geophysical data analyses. Academic preparations included a 6-year faculty appointment at Rutgers University in New Jersey and a 2-year PostDoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California after receiving a PhD  from the University of Delaware in 1992. In a prior life he studied physics at the University of Kiel in Germany and worked as a paramedic in rural north-west Germany. His more than 30 ship-based expeditions and publications range from studies of the physics of river discharges in Argentina, Siberia, and Delaware to ice-ocean interactions and glaciers off northern Greenland and Canada. Andreas also dabbles in statistics, remote sensing, computer modeling, and kids himself to be a writer. He likes puzzles of all kinds, but presently tries to learn how air, water, ice, and people shape the physical, social, and political climate that we all live in. His professional web-pages are accessible at http://IcySeas.net while he blogs on both science and general topics at https://IcySeas.org

Education:

Current Research Projects:

• Sources of the East Greenland Current
• Ice-Ocean Interactions at Petermann Gletscher, Greenland
• Ocean Circulation off West Greenland’s Melville Bay and Cape York regions

Publications

For a complete publication list, see Andreas Muenchow on Google Scholar.