Professor
University of California, Los Angeles
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
jcm@atmos.ucla.edu

James C. McWilliams is a geophysical fluid dynamicist who specializes in oceanic circulation and modeling. His college degrees are in applied mathematics at CalTech (1968) and Harvard (1969, 1971). His employment has been at Harvard, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and UCLA, where he is the Louis Slichter Professor of Earth Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.