Pamela Gladstone

Dr. Pamela Gladstone is an oceanographer based in Fort Myers, Florida. Together with her research partner Wallace Lam, she developed a fractal mathematical model to apply the concept of the so-called "butterfly effect" to ocean currents in order to more accurately track and predict them.

She is a great fan of the outdoors, enjoying mountain climbing, kayaking, skiing, and particularly the ocean. She is a capable boat captain, easily piloting the forty-six-foot research vessel Leucothea in the unpredictable seas of the Gulf of Mexico.

Gladstone was tall and gangly as a child, which often made her the subject of teasing by her classmates. To cope with the endless taunting, she developed an imaginary private retreat in her mind, a beautiful private garden bursting with color where she could run free and wild as a white horse with a flowing mane.Gladstone is missing her right foot, the ultimate result of an experimental drug she was given during the events of Crooked River. Thanks to the secondary effects of the drug, she has no recollection of the her time in captivity or the circumstances surrounding the loss of the limb.

Special Agent Pendergast, through his charitable foundation Vita Brevis, planned to establish and endow a chair for her at the oceanographic institute of her choice once she was ready to return to work.