Eric Kunze is an ocean physicist specializing in
internal waves and
turbulence production at the
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences and
Department Of Physics and Astronomy. In the past he has studied the interaction between
near-inertial internal waves and geostrophic vorticity,
salt-fingering theory, distinguishing fluctuations due to internal waves from those of
potential vorticity-carrying finestructure (vortical mode) and
flow/topography interactions. He continues to actively investigate
parameterizing turbulence production by breaking internal waves and turbulence generation by
swimming marine organisms.
Before his life was subsumed entirely by science, he also composed music for solo piano, painted alien landscape watercolors and wrote short fiction. He maintains an interest in classical music by listening and maintaining a discography of the music of Alan Hovhaness and a discography of the French composer-pianist Charles Valentin Alkan.
