Group members Wenrui Jiang, Prajvala Kurtakoti, and Yilang Xu have won prizes from our Department for their research. Wenrui won the Best Graduate Student Research Paper award for his article Generation and propagation of Eastern Subpolar North Atlantic salinity anomalies,which is under consideration for publication following revision at the Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans (see...
Group members Cara Williams, Joan Bonilla Pagan, and Renske Gelderloos presented their latest research results at the 2026 Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Flux Workshop in Bergen, Norway. Great work folks!
Graduate student Wenrui Jiang presented his doctoral thesis to the department of Earth & Planetary Sciences today. This is the final hurdle before conferral of the PhD degree. Wenrui’s thesis title is “Lagrangian budgets for ocean kinematics”. The abstract is below. Wenrui starts his postdoctoral training at the department of Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences,...
Graduate student Joan Bonilla Pagan is working on an NSF-funded collaborative project called “Measuring the East Greenland Coastal Current on the Northeast Greenland Shelf”. This involved Joan participating in an oceanographic research cruise to Greenland and the Nordic Seas in Fall ’26. A reporter from the New York Times also participated in the cruise, and...
Graduate student Wenrui Jiang has published a paper in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems entitled “Tracer budgets on Lagrangian budgets.” The Key Points are: • A closed tracer budget on Lagrangian trajectories is built from the Eulerian budget from finite‐volume models • A novel interpolation scheme connects the Eulerian and the Lagrangian...
Graduate student Joan Bonilla Pagan has passed his Department Qualifying Exam. The DQE is the Department Qualifying Exam, which is an oral test with three departmental faculty. All PhD students must pass this test on their way to earning their doctorate. Well done Joan!
Tom is teaching the Scouts BSA Oceanography merit badge! The program is being run through the Natural History Society of Maryland. For more details and registration, click here.
Graduate student Wenrui Jiang cleared an important hurdle recently on his way to his PhD. Wenrui presented his thesis research proposal in his Graduate Board Oral (GBO) exam. The thesis proposal title is “Multiscale Lagrangian description of tracer dynamics and energy dissipation”. The GBO involved faculty from Earth & Planetary Sciences, Mechanical Engineering, and Applied...
Graduate student Ali Siddiqui presented and defended his doctoral thesis! This is the last step in the road to earning the PhD. Ali’s thesis title is: SALINITY VARIABILITY IN THE SUBPOLAR NORTH ATLANTIC. Massive congratulations Dr. Siddiqui!
