Carl Wunsch was the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physical Oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, until he retired in 2013. He is known for his early work in internal waves and more recently for research into the effects of ocean circulation on climate. Career Wunsch received his Ph.D. in Geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966. He began teaching there in 1967, achieving tenure in 1970, and was named Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physical Oceanography in 1976. Climate change Wunsch was one of the scientists interviewed in the controversial documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle, but he complained that his views were grossly distorted by context. Selected honors Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1978 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1979 Fulbright Scholar, 1981-1982 Maurice Ewing Medal, American Geophysical Union and U.S. Navy, 1990 Henry Stommel Research Award, American Meteorological Society, 2000 Foreign Member, Royal Society of London, 2002 Member of the American Philosophical Society, 2003 William Bowie Medal, American Geophysical Union, 2006 Selected publications Carl Wunsch, Discrete Inverse and State Estimation Problems, 2006. Carl Wunsch, The Ocean Circulation Inverse Problem, 1996. Walter Munk, Peter Worcester, and Carl Wunsch, Ocean Acoustic Tomography, Cambridge University Press, 1995. References External links Homepage CV American oceanographers Foreign Members of the Royal Society Living people 1941 births Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni Members of the American Philosophical Society