Neil S. Oakey; EPSONDE: An Instrument to Measure Turbulence in the Deep Ocean, IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., vol. 13, pp. 124 - 128, July 1988.
Neil S. Oakey; EPSONDE: A Deep Ocean Microstructure Profiler, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'87 Conference, pp. 316 - 321, September 1987.
Neil S. Oakey received the Ph.D. degree in physics from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont., Canada, in 1967.After graduating, he spent three years as a research associate at Texas A and M University, College Station, TX. Since 1970 he has been a research scientist in physical oceanography in the Ocean Circulation Division at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, N.S. One of his principal interests has been the study of turbulent mixing processes in the ocean and the relationship of these processes to larger-scale oceanic processes. As part of this program, he has developed instruments and sensors to measure oceanic microstructure, of which the profiler EPSONDE is the most recent. He has led several oceanographic cruises studying mixed-layer turbulence, frontal mixing processes, mixing in the equatorial undercurrent, and deep ocean mixing in a MEDDY and has published his findings in a number of oceanographic journals.