Richard Legeckis
graduated as an electrical engineer from the City
University of New York and participated in the the Apollo moon landing
project. He later studied physical oceanography at
Florida State University. Since joining NOAA in 1974, he has specialized
in satellite infrared views of the oceans and is credited with the discovery of
the seaward deflection of the Gulf Stream by a topographical bump on the
bottom off Charleston, South Carolina and the 30-day Tropical
Instability Waves in the equatorial Pacific. He is presently using geostationary image animations
to discriminate between low frequency ocean fronts and rapidly moving clouds.
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