Introduction It is the highpoint of my career to receive this award, named in honor of my Ph.D. mentor, Bruce Merrifield. There is little that I can add to what we all know regarding the impact that Bruce has had on peptide research. Certainly, he has had a more significant impact on my scientific development than any other individual. I do need, however, to acknowledge from the start that I ha...

It is well-known that internal waves can propagate downwards in the interior of the oceanic (e.g. Gill, 1982) and this process has been studied experimentally in the laboratory (e.g. Stevens and Imberger, 1994). Moreover, it is well-known that a monochromatic internal wave is an exact solution of the fully nonlinear Euler equations for a stratified fluid (in the Boussinesq approximation) with a...