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| Biography: | Dr. Harding serves as Chief Scientist of the multi-university Northern Gulf Institute (NGI), a NOAA Cooperative Institute. NGI focuses on science issues in the northern Gulf of Mexico encompassing ecosystem-based management, coastal hazards, impact of climate change and climate variability on regional ecosystems, and geospatial data integration and visualization in environmental science. Within these broad themes, Dr. Harding organizes and leads collaborative, multi-university, scientific teams conducting research funded by and in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other Federal agencies with responsibilities in the watersheds, coastal areas and offshore regions of the Gulf of Mexico. In 2010/2011, he served as one of four team leaders for the U.S. IOOS-funded SURA Super-regional Modeling Testbed Program. His multi-university team focused on both the science of shelf hypoxia in the Gulf as well as transition of related real-time coastal prediction capabilities. At the same time, Dr. Harding also served as technical lead for the $10M BP Year 1 Gulf Research Initiative NGI grant that funded 9 universities and over 80 researchers across the five Gulf States. Dr. Harding previously served as Chief Scientist of the Naval Oceanographic Office and as Head of the Naval Research Laboratory’s Ocean Dynamics and Prediction Branch. During his 34 year Navy research career he conducted and guided open and coastal ocean prediction research, development and operational transition. He has over 20 citable references and over 65 national/international presentations.
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| Research Interest: | Dr. Harding’s research interests include the fusion of ocean instrumentation, remotely sensed and in situ data, data bases, and ocean prediction models to address applied civilian and military science and operational needs. He has experience in real-time numerical forecasting and simulation for both open and coastal oceans, as well as in coupled earth system modeling including air-ocean, biota-ocean and acoustic-ocean interactions. He has extensive experience leading multi-disciplinary modeling teams and developing complex modeling systems on high performance computers as well as desktop systems.
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| Publications: | Harding, J. M., & Moorhead, R. J., (2013). Northern Gulf Institute Final Report: Year 1 Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Funding. Mississippi State University: Northern Gulf Institute. [Abstract] [Document] [Document Site]
Harding, J. M., Cross, S., Bub, F., Ji, M., Carleton, C., Tolman, H., & Parsons, A. R. (2013). OceanNOMADS - AN UPDATE: REAL-TIME AND RETROSPECTIVE ACCESS TO OPERATIONAL U.S. OCEAN PREDICTION PRODUCTS. Proceedings of the 93rd Annual Conference of the American Meteorological Society. Austin, TX: American Meteorological Society. [Document] [Document Site]
Harding, J. M., Cross, S., Bub, F., Ji, M., Carleton, C., Tolman, H. L., & Parsons, A. R. (2013). OceanNOMADS - An Update: Real-time and Retrospective Access to Operational U.S. Ocean Prediction Products. Proceedings of the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society. Austin, TX: American Meteorological Society. [Document] [Document Site]
Jacobs, G. A., Aikman, F., Anderson, D., Banas, N., Bryan, F. O., Chant, R., Curchitser, E., DiMarco, S., Dunne, J. P., Fennel, K., Friedrichs, M. A. M., Harding, J. M., He, R., Lewitus, A., McGillicuddy, D., & Schofield, O. (2013). Long Term Coastal Ocean Forecasting. Proceedings of the 93rd Annual Conference of the American Meteorological Society. Austin, TX: American Meteorological Society. [Abstract] [Document Site]
Harding, J. M., Moorhead, R. J.,, & Ashby, S. (2012). Key Nearshore Findings from the Northern Gulf Institute Monitoring and Research Program Undertaken in the Immediate Aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon Incident. http://masgc.org/bb2012/Abstractspdf/DHS_PDFs/DHS_Harding_John_abstract_ms%20edit.pdf. Biloxi, MS. [Document] [Document Site]
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| Total Publications by this Author: 20 |
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