Ralph F. Milliff
Colorado Research Associates
Boulder, CO

Dr. Milliff is a research scientist at the Colorado Research Associates division of NorthWest Research Associates. His expertise is in numerical modeling of the ocean and atmosphere, and the relation of air-sea dynamics to climate. He was an Ocean Modeling postdoctoral fellow at NCAR (1989-1991), and a staff scientist there until 2001. Dr. Milliff has served as a member of the NASA Ocean Vector Winds Science Team for the NSCAT and QSCAT missions (1991-present). His current research involves the application of global surface vector wind datasets of studies of: upper ocean mixing and the ocean general circulation, the Madden-Julian Oscillation, and the quasi-stationary waves of the Southern Hemisphere. In addition, Dr. Milliff is adapting methods of Bayesian hierarchical models from probability and statistics to problems of air-sea interaction.