Report summary

The 2024-2026 picture for Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Physical Oceanography is a 13-PI network with 2 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Earth and Planetary Sciences as the leading field (46% of slots across 11 PIs; 11 labels), Oceanography as the leading subfield (32% of slots across 10 PIs; 10 labels), and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes as the leading topic (24% of slots across 9 PIs; 9 labels). That is a thin collaboration pattern, useful for spotting individual pairs but less persuasive as a broad departmental network. The top weighted PIs are Lisan Yu (5.7 weighted works; Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Climate variability and models). The strongest pairings are Ke Chen and Jiayan Yang (2 shared works, weight 2). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 2 PIs, 1 internal connections, weight 0.6, around Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, led by Lisan Yu, Viviane Menezes.