| Citation | Professor Garrett is distinguished for contributions to geophysical fluid dynamics in which he has clarified and illuminated a range of processes basic to our understanding of the ocean and to the interpretation of observations.
After early work on wave trains in inhomogeneous media he collaborated with Munk to systematise knowledge of the spectrum of internal waves, leading to his important work on fine-structure, mixing and dispersion in the ocean.
The breadth of his interests is wide, ranging from the generation of Langmuir circulations by surface waves to iceberg trajectories and ocean tides.
He has received the President's Prize of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (1979) and the Huntsman Award (1982). |