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!
Graduate student Cara Williams passed her DQE! 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 Cara!
The Haine group has been awarded a new research grant entitled “Measuring the East Greenland Coastal Current on the Northeast Greenland Shelf.” The project is supported by NSF and involves collaboration with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Skidaway Institute of Oceanography at the University of Georgia. Graduate student Joan Bonilla Pagan will work on the...
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...
