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Miles G. McPhee

McPhee Research Company
450 Clover Springs Road
Naches, WA 98937

email:  miles@mcpheeresearch.com



  • Recent invited lectures:
    Boundary Layer Workshop, Boulder CO, Jun 2012
    ProClim Sea-Ice Summer School, Svalbard, Jun 2011
    Sea Ice Workshop, U. Otago, Feb 2010
    Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., Jan 2009
    Geophysical Inst,  U. Bergen, Jan 2009
    International Sea-Ice Summer School, Svalbard, Jul 2007
    Moss Landing Marine Laboratory, Oct 2008, Nov 2007
    Steinbach Visiting Scholar,   WHOI student organization, Jul 2006
    WHOI Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Summer Institute, July 2006.

  • Recent public presentations for lay/school audiences:
    Master Gardeners, Feb 2022
    Yakima SW Rotary, Jan 2022
    Davis High School, Sep 2021
    Yakima Beer and Science, Oct 2020
    Tri-Cities Beer and Science, Nov 2020
    YVC Environmental Club, Jan 2020
    Yakima Audubon Society, Jan 2020
    Davis High School, Jan 2018
    LaSalle High School, Jan 2018
    Prosser Rotary, Jan 2018
    TEDx Yakima, Oct 2017


  • Chair, Chief Scientist, OPP MaudNESS Experiment aboard R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer,   2005

  • Member, National Academy of Sciences Polar Research Board, 2001—2004.

  • Member, NSF Research Support and Logistics Working Group, 2000—2003.

  • Participant in 25+ polar field programs.

  • SHEBA Field Program Chief Scientist, Mar 1998

  • Co-Chair, Science Working Group: Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic (SHEBA) 1993-1996

  • Member, US Weather Research Project, Prospectus Development Team No. 3, 1995

  • Member, AMS Committee on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography 1994-1996

  • Chair, Chief Scientist: NSF-OPP Antarctic Zone Flux Experiment (ANZFLUX), 1994

  • Science Steering Committee member, US/Soviet Ice Station Weddell, 1992

  • Vice-chair, US Coordinator, Chief Scientist: Marginal Ice Zone Experiment (MIZEX),     1983-1986

  • American Geophysical Union

  • American Association for the Advancement of    Science

 
 Professional Preparation:
B.S. with Distinction, Stanford University (Civil Engineering) 1968
Ph.D. University of Washington (Geophysics) 1974


 Appointments:
1983 — present: Owner, McPhee Research Company
1989 — present: Affiliate Principal Scientist, UW Applied Physics Laboratory
1999 — present: Lecturer on air-sea-ice interaction, University Courses on Svalbard
1982 — 1983: Arctic Chair, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
1981 — 1982: Self-employed Consultant
1978 — 1981: Geophysicist, US Army Cold Regions Research and Engrg. Lab.
1974 — 1978: Research Scientist, AIDJEX, University of Washington
1971 — 1974: Research Assistant, University of Washington

Graduate Student Advisees







Algot Petersen, University of Bergen
Carl Gladish, New York University
Natalie Robinson, University of Otago
Anders Sirevaag, University of Bergen
Karolina Widell, University of Bergen
Dan Hayes, University of Washington
Dirk Notz, University of Hamburg
Dmitris Menememlis, University of Victoria