Joan Bonilla-Pagan has been at sea for a month, conducting fieldwork in the Nordic Seas. He joined the R/V Neil Armstrong in Iceland, and cruised in the vicinity of the Greenland-Scotland Ridge, and the East Greenland continental shelf, north of Iceland. The science objectives of the expedition were to investigate the sources of dense water...
Graduate student Ali Siddiqui has published a paper in JGR Oceans entitled Controls on Upper Ocean Salinity Variability in the Eastern Subpolar North Atlantic During 1992–2017. The paper’s key points are: This is Ali’s first first-author thesis paper!
Tom and Wenrui are co-authors on a manuscript called A Review of Green’s Function Methods for Tracer Timescales and Pathways in Ocean Models. The manuscript is submitted to JAMES and the preprint is here. Here’s some more information: The global ocean circulation disperses trace substances, like dissolved chemicals, via currents and mixing. Characterizing the dispersion...
Dr. Yilang Xu has joined our research group. Yilang recently graduated from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering. His PhD research focused on studying the small-scale dynamics of Antarctic coastal polynyas using a combination of numerical circulation simulations, analytical scaling, and observational data. Yilang will work on an NSF-funded project on...
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.
Assistant research scientist, Miguel Jimenez-Urias, has moved to a new job with OPeNDAP as a Scientific Community Director. Miguel spent four years in our group working on the Poseidon Project and on the theory of tracer dispersion. Good luck Miguel!
We’re looking for a postdoc to join the group. The project focuses on processes in the subinertial frequency range (several days) in the subpolar North Atlantic region, in particular the Greenland-Scotland Ridge. Details of the vacancy, and information on how to apply are here. The deadline for applications in January 19, 2024.
Assistant Research Scientist Miguel Jiménez-Urias has published a paper on the dispersion of passive tracer. The title is “On the non-self-adjoint and multiscale character of passive scalar mixing under laminar advection” and the paper appears in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Miguel writes in the paper’s Abstract: “Except in the trivial case of spatially uniform...
After several years in our group, Associate Research Scientist Renske Gelderloos is moving! She’s accepted a position as a Universitair Docent at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. This is a permanent faculty position in Physical Oceanography & Sea Level in the department of Civil Engineering and Geosciences. The position is part of the university’s Climate Action...
Jie Ma has joined the research group. Jie is a student in the Data Science Masters program in Applied Math & Statistics, Whiting School of Engineering. She will conduct her capstone Masters project with the group on the fates and pathways of wastewater discharged from the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. Prior to JHU,...
