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!
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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!
Yilang Xu joins the group
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 […]
Miguel moves to OPeNDAP
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!
How fluid tracers spread: New paper on shear dispersion
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 […]