Bio Sketch

Dr. Edgar L Andreas received his Ph.D. in 1977 from Oregon State University in physical 
oceanography. From 1978 through 2006, he was a Research Physicist with the U.S. Army’s 
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, NH. He is currently a Senior 
Research Scientist with NorthWest Research Associates and has his office in Lebanon, NH. 
In 1986 and 1987, he spent a year with the NOAA/ERL Wave Propagation Laboratory in 
Boulder, CO (now NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory), on a fellowship from the 
National Research Council. He has four primary research areas, all tied together by his 
fundamental interest in turbulent transfer processes in the atmospheric boundary layer. 
These four areas are 1) air-sea interaction and the effects of sea spray on air-sea heat, 
moisture, and momentum transfer in high winds; 2) polar meteorology and air-sea-ice 
interaction; 3) scintillation and electro-optical propagation in the atmospheric boundary 
layer; and 4) fundamental turbulence issues such as Monin-Obukhov similarity theory, fluid 
dynamics, time series and spectral analysis, and measurement physics. Dr. Andreas has done 
theoretical work, experimental work, and modeling in all four areas. He is the lead or 
sole author of 83 papers published in refereed journals and has edited or co-edited three 
books. He is a Life Member of the American Geophysical Union and a Fellow of both the 
American Meteorological Society and the Royal Meteorological Society.