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 […]
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New paper about Tracer Budgets on Lagrangian Trajectories
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 […]
Joan Bonilla Pagan passes his DQE
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!
Oceanography Merit Badge
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.
Wenrui Jiang passes the GBO exam
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 […]
Ali Siddiqui presents his thesis
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!
Cara Williams passes her DQE
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!
New NSF project on Greenland ocean currents
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 […]
Fieldwork to the Nordic Seas
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 […]
Paper on salinity in the North Atlantic Ocean
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!