Doug Wilson is a Physical Oceanographer, Principal Investigator and Director of the
UVI Ocean
Glider Laboratory, and Courtesy Research Assistant Professor in the UVI College of
Science and
Mathematics. He has been conducting regional research in the Caribbean since 1991,
using
gliders since 2018. He was an Oceanographer with the US National Oceanographic and
Atmospheric Administration from 1982-2012. His research interests include oceanography
of
the Caribbean Sea, western tropical Atlantic, and Gulf of Mexico; ocean circulation
and heat
transport; ocean data management and visualization systems; western boundary currents;
equatorial ocean dynamics; Integrated Ocean Observing Systems; autonomous platforms,
moorings, and instrument development. He was the founding co-chair of IOCARIBE-GOOS,
the
GOOS Regional Alliance for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions, and is the lead for
IOCARIBE
on the UN Decade of Ocean Science Tropical Americas Observing and Forecasting
System Project. In addition to serving on the UG2 Steering Committee, he is a member
of
GOOS OceanGliders STORMS Task Team.
