Joseph Pedlosky

Joseph Pedlosky (born April 7, 1938) is an American physical oceanographer.

[1] He is a scientist emeritus at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Pedlosky was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1985.

He is the author of the textbooks Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Ocean Circulation Theory, and Waves in the Ocean and Atmosphere: Introduction to Wave Dynamics.

In 1966, as a young assistant professor at MIT, he refused to sign the Massachusetts Teachers' Oath ultimately bringing the case to the state supreme court.