Women in Oceanography: Erika McPhee-Shaw

I seem to have a lot of dreams about crashing waves and tumbling rivers, and my favorite college physics courses were those in electromagnetism, so perhaps it was inevitable that I would end up working in the science of waves and Earth’s water systems. One focus of my research has been the physics of internal waves on continental margins and how they move sediment around on fairly vast scales. Over time, my interests widened to include more general coastal oceanographic dynamics, and my research became more interdisciplinary.