Education

• 1973 -  Ph.D. Physical Oceanography, University of California (Scripps), San Diego
• 1966 -  M.S. Physical Oceanography, University of California (Scripps), San Diego
• 1964 -  B.S. Engineering Physics, University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests

• physical oceanography
• upper ocean processes
• air-sea interaction
• ocean circulation and mixing

Professional Experience

      University of Hawaii, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology

• Manager, Asia-Pacific Data-Research Center, IPRC, 2001–present
• Senior Research Scientist, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, 1992–present
• Visiting Senior Fellow, JIMAR, 1991–1992

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• Research Scientist, Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, 1984–1992
• Scientific Officer, U.S. TOGA Project Office, NOAA, 1984–1987
• Program Director, Physical Oceanography Program, NSF, 1981–1984
• Self-employed, Oceanographic Consultant, 1980–1981
• Program Director, Physical Oceanography Program, NSF, 1977–1980
• Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 1973–1977

Recent At-Sea Experience (1999-2002)  

• 2001 October 17 to November 5. Participant on the R/V Mirai Tropical Ocean Climate Study cruise to the eastern Indian Ocean, western equatorial Pacific and Indonesian Throughflow regions. (Singapore to Palau). Chief Scientist, Keisuke Mizuno (JAMSTEC). Purpose: TRITON buoy maintenance and hydrography in the eastern Indian Ocean.
• 2000 September 13 to October 1. Participant with E. Firing on the R/V Kaiyo Tropical Ocean Climate Study cruise to the western equatorial Pacific and Mindanao Current region.(Kavieng, PNG to Palau). Chief Scientist, Yuji Kashino (JAMSTEC). Purpose: TRITON buoy maintenance, hydrography, shipboard/lowered acoustic Doppler current profiling in the western equatorial Pacific.
• 1999 April 30 to June 8. PI with R. Lukas and E. Firing for the JASMINE ocean observations in the Bay of Bengal aboard the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown (Singapore to Darwin, Australia). Chief Scientist, Chris Fairall (NOAA); collaborating PIs, P. Webster and R. Houze.
• 1999 February 13 to March 1. Participant with E. Firing on the R/V Kaiyo Tropical Ocean Climate Study cruise to the Mindanao Current and Celebes Sea (Palau to Palau). Chief Scientist, Yuji Kashino (JAMSTEC). Purpose: TRITON buoy maintenance, hydrography, shipboard/lowered acoustic Doppler current profiling in the western equatorial Pacific.

Selected Publications

• Firing, E., Y. Kashino, and P. Hacker: Energetic subthermocline currents observed east of Mindanao. Deep Sea Research II, in press.
• Shcherbina, A.Y., L.D. Talley, E. Firing, and P. Hacker, 2002: Near surface frontal zone trapping and deep upward propagation of internal wave energy in the Japan/East Sea. J. Phys. Oceanogr., accepted.
• Chen, S., B. Qiu, and P. Hacker, 2007: Profiling float measurements of the recirculation gyre south of the Kuroshio Extension in May-November 2004. J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 112, C05023, doi:10.1029/2006.
• Qiu, B., S. Chen, and P. Hacker, 2007: Effect of mesoscale eddies on Subtropical Mode Water variability from the Kuroshio Extension System Study (KESS). J. Phys. Oceanogr., 37, 982–1000.
• Webster, P.J., E.F. Bradley, C.W. Fairall, J.S. Godfrey, P. Hacker, R.A. Houze Jr., R. Lukas, Y. Serra, J.M. Hummon, T.D.M. Lawrence, C.A. Russell, M.N. Ryan, K. Sahami, and P. Zuidema, 2002: The Joint Air-Sea Monsoon Interaction Experiment (JASMINE) Pilot Study. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 83, 1603–1630.
• DiMarco, S.F., P. Chapman, W.D. Nowlin, Jr., P. Hacker, K. Donohue, M. Luther, G.C. Johnson, and J. Toole, 2002: Volume transport and property distributions of the Mozambique Channel. Deep-Sea Res. II, 49, 1481–1511.
• Meyers, G., S. Godfrey, A. Gordon, P. Hacker, M. Jury, B. Lau, V.V. Gopalakrishna, T. Sribimawati and T. Yamagata, 2001: Monsoon, seasonal and interannual applications of an Indian Ocean observing system. In: Observing the Oceans in the 21st Century. Edited by: C.J. Koblinsky, and N.R. Smith. 2001 GODAE Project Office, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne VIC 3001, 48–65.
• Kashino, Y., E. Firing, P. Hacker, A. Sulaiman, and Lukiyanto, 2001: Currents in the Celebes and Maluka Seas, February 1999. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 1263–1266.
• Soloviev, A., R. Lukas, and P. Hacker, 2001: An approach to parameterization of the oceanic turbulent boundary layer in the western Pacific Warm Pool. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 4421–4435.
• Feng, M., R. Lukas, and P. Hacker, 2001: Spinup of a sub-mesoscale eddy in the TOGA COARE Intensive Flux Array during the spindown of an intense eastward jet. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 31, 711–724.
• Lukas, R., P. Hacker, S. DeCarlo, J. Hummon, F. Santiago-Mandujano, and D. Wright, 2001: Hydrographic Observations during the Joint Air-Sea Monsoon Interaction Experiment (JASMINE) Pilot Study, Data Report, SOEST 5319, pp. 246.
• Feng, M., R. Lukas, P. Hacker, R.A. Weller, and S.P. Anderson, 2000: Upper-ocean heat and salt balances in the western equatorial Pacific in response to the Intraseasonal Oscillation during TOGA COARE. J. Climate, 13, 2409–2427.
• Soloviev, A., R. Lukas, and P. Hacker, 2000: Horizontal structure of the upper ocean velocity and density fields in the western equatorial Pacific warm pool: Depth range from 20 to 250 m. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 30, 416–432.
• Soloviev, A., R. Lukas, P. Hacker, H. Schoeberlein, M. Baker, and A. Arjannikov, 1999: A near-surface microstructure sensor system used during TOGA COARE. Part II: Turbulence measurements. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 16, 1598–1618.
• Hacker, P., E. Firing, J. Hummon, A.L. Gordon, and J.C. Kindle, 1998: Bay of Bengal currents during the northeast monsoon. Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 2769–2772.
• Feng, M., M.A. Merrifield, R. Pinkel, P. Hacker, A.J. Pluddemann, E. Firing, R. Lukas, and C. Eriksen, 1998: Semidiurnal tides observed in the western equatorial Pacific during the TOGA COARE. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 10,253–10,272.
• Feng, M., P. Hacker, and R. Lukas, 1998. Upper ocean heat and salt balances in response to a westerly wind burst in the western equatorial Pacific during TOGA COARE. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 10,289–10,311.
• Wijffels, S., M. Hall, T. Joyce, D.J. Torres, P. Hacker, and E. Firing, 1998: The multiple gyres of the western North Pacific:  A WOCE section along 149E. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 12,985–13,009.
• Firing, E., S.E. Wijffels, and P. Hacker, 1998: Equatorial subthermocline currents across the Pacific. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 21,413–21,423.
• Gordon, A.L., S. Ma, D.B. Olson, P. Hacker, A. Field, L.D. Talley, D. Wilson, and M. Baringer, 1997: Advection and diffusion of Indonesian throughflow water within the Indian Ocean South Equatorial Current. Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 2573–2576.
• Huyer, A., P.M. Kosro, R. Lukas, and P. Hacker, 1997: Upper Ocean thermohaline fields near 2S, 156E during the Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment, November 1992 to February 1993. J. Geophys. Res., 102, 12,749–12,784.
• Hacker, P., E. Firing, W.D. Wilson, and R. Molinari, 1996: Direct observations of the current structure east of the Bahamas. Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 1127–1130.
• Lukas, R., E. Firing, P. Hacker, P.L. Richardson, C.A. Collins, R. Fine, and R. Gammon, 1991: Observations of the Mindanao Current during the Western Equatorial Pacific Ocean Circulation Study (WEPOCS). J. Geophys. Res., 96, 7089–7104.
• Milliman, J.D., Y. Hsueh, D.-X. Hu, D.J. Pashinski, H.-T. Shen, Z.-S. Yang, and P.W. Hacker, 1984: Tidal phase control of sediment discharge from the Yangtze River. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 19, 119–128.
• Boicourt, W.C., and P.W. Hacker, 1975: Circulation on the Atlantic continental shelf of the United States, Cape May to Cape Hatteras. Mem. Soc. Roy. Sci. Liege, 10, 187–200.
• Gregg, M.C., C.S. Cox, and P.W. Hacker, 1973: Vertical microstructure measurements in the central North Pacific. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 3, 458–469.