Munk was renowned for making groundbreaking observations of waves, ocean temperature and tidal energy in the deep ocean.

Surfers enjoyed 4-foot waves in 67-degree water Saturday near Scripps Pier with a light east-southeast wind and 8- and 12-second swells from west-northwest and southwest, respectively. And for having ...

The scientific community is mourning the passing of famed Scripps oceanographer Walter Munk, who died at his La Jolla home Friday at the age of 101, according to an obituary notice posted by the ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. As dawn washes over Bondi Beach, you can see the surfers beyond the break, gently rising and falling on their ...

Walter Munk was a globally renowned oceanographer who helped ensure the safety and success of Allied beach landings during the Second World War by devising ways to forecast the waves. Decades later he ...

Walter Munk, the high-spirited scientist-explorer whose insights about the nature of winds, waves and currents earned him the nickname the “Einstein of the Oceans,” died Friday in La Jolla. He was 101 ...

Peter Munk, a powerful man in a small frame, would claim he wasn’t afraid of death. It was frailty that terrified him; it meant that he could not play the game he had been playing all his life – ...

The proposed historic designation of the La Jolla Shores home of late oceanographer Walter Munk has raised objections from his daughter Kendall, who says he did not want such a designation and that ...

The lamb heart arrived, without much warning, along with a full transfusion bag. Soon, Rasmus Munk would douse what looked like blood all over the heart while people just sat there and watched. The ...

Rasmus Munk, the celebrated Danish chef, has such memorable eyes—they are a piercing blue, and often bloodshot—that when a waiter at Alchemist, his restaurant in Copenhagen, served me an eyeball, I ...

On a chilly evening in early March, Peter Munk picks me up from my hotel in his tiny Fiat Punto, manual transmission, that he drives himself. His wife Melanie is stuffed in the back and our ...