Ocean Circulation
Physical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: On the Offshore Export of Glacial Meltwater in the Western North Atlantic
Olivier Marchal, WHOI Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/97073458686?pwd=U01aa2FpRStyVzFFbEREeG9laUF6QT09 Meeting ID: 970…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Lagrangian Study of Three Dimensional Atmospheric Flows with Application to Wildfires Over Australia
Jezabel Curbelo, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting:…
Read MoreModeling our climate future; WHOI to lead ocean current research
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) senior scientist of physical oceanography, Dr. Young-Oh Kwon, and WHOI adjunct scientist, Dr. Claude Frankignoul, have received a new research grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections (MAPP) Program, funding their research project focusing on western boundary ocean currents and their correspondence with the atmosphere in relation to modern day climate.
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Combining Statistical, Physical, and Historical Evidence to Improve Historical Sea-Surface Temperature Records
Duo Chan, WHOI Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/97073458686?pwd=U01aa2FpRStyVzFFbEREeG9laUF6QT09 Meeting ID: 970…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Insights Into the Mixing Efficiency of Centrifugal-Symmetric Instabilities in the Ocean
Tomas Chor, University of Maryland Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/97073458686?pwd=U01aa2FpRStyVzFFbEREeG9laUF6QT09 Meeting…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Across-Shore Propagation of Subthermocline Eddies and Other Insights from Long-term Glider Measurements in the California Current System
Alice Ren, UCSD Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/97073458686?pwd=U01aa2FpRStyVzFFbEREeG9laUF6QT09 Meeting ID: 970…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Observing and Quantifying Ocean Flow Properties Using Drifters with Drogues at Different Depths
Tim Getscher, MIT-WHOI Joint Program Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/97073458686?pwd=U01aa2FpRStyVzFFbEREeG9laUF6QT09 Meeting…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Surfacing and Clustering of Gyrotactic Swimmers in Free-Surface Turbulence
Harshit Bhatia, CEA Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/97073458686?pwd=U01aa2FpRStyVzFFbEREeG9laUF6QT09 Meeting ID: 970…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Changing Spatial Patterns of Deep Convection in the Subpolar North Atlantic
Siren Ruhs, GEOMAR This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/97073458686?pwd=U01aa2FpRStyVzFFbEREeG9laUF6QT09 Meeting ID: 970 7345 8686 Passcode: X6R1a@ Phone…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Physical Controls on the Macrofaunal Benthic Biomass in the Northeast Chukchi Sea
Robert S. Pickart, WHOI Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/97073458686?pwd=U01aa2FpRStyVzFFbEREeG9laUF6QT09 Meeting ID:…
Read MoreDoctoral Dissertation Defense of Thesis: Control of the Abyssal Ocean Overturning Circulation by Mixing-Driven Bottom Boundary Layers
Henri F. Drake, MIT-WHOI Joint Program Sponsored by: Academic Programs Office This will be held virtually. Register in advance for…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Kinematic Structure and Dynamics of the Denmark Strait Overflow From Ship-Based Observations
Peigen Lin, WHOI Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/97073458686?pwd=U01aa2FpRStyVzFFbEREeG9laUF6QT09 Meeting ID: 970…
Read MoreScience RoCS Initiative responds to need for increased ocean monitoring
Commercial ships are helping oceanographers deploy robotic Argo floats to keep an eye on hard-to-reach parts of the ocean
Read MoreDoctoral Dissertation Defense of Thesis: Vertical Fluxes in the Upper Ocean
Mara Freilich, MIT-WHOI Joint Program Sponsored by: Academic Programs Office Click here to register or use the URL below: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEuc-yvrDouH9eJR2r90hRaaYttaUKP75AF
Read MoreNASA’s S-MODE Takes to the Air and Sea to Study Ocean Eddies
The S-MODE team hopes to learn more about small-scale movements of ocean water such as eddies. These whirlpools span about 6.2 miles or ten kilometers, slowly moving ocean water in a swirling pattern.
Physical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar:Lee Waves in Shear Flow
Yue Cynthia Wu, WHOI Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/97073458686?pwd=U01aa2FpRStyVzFFbEREeG9laUF6QT09 Meeting ID:…
Read MoreAOP&E Department Virtual Seminar: Diatom Hotspots Driven by Western Boundary Current Instability
Hilde Oliver, WHOI Sponsored by: AOP&E Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85882575533?pwd=b2dYOVFlclJPYnlsY3NhZGpleXBtUT09 Meeting ID: 858 8257 5533; Password: 2296Audio-only…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Amazing Longevity of Ocean Vortices
Georgi Sutyrin, University of Rhode Island Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/97073458686?pwd=U01aa2FpRStyVzFFbEREeG9laUF6QT09…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Flows in Horizontal Thermohaline Convection with Differential Diffusion
Jack Whitehead, WHOI Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/97073458686?pwd=U01aa2FpRStyVzFFbEREeG9laUF6QT09 Meeting ID: 970…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Pathways of Vertical Nutrient Fluxes
Mara Freilich, MIT-WHOI Joint Program Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/97073458686?pwd=U01aa2FpRStyVzFFbEREeG9laUF6QT09 Meeting…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Characterizing the Spatial Distribution of Transport and Mixing In Three-Dimensional Flows by Lagrangian Tools
Jezabel Curbelo, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting:…
Read MoreAmidst pandemic, researchers deploy new monitoring station in tropical Pacific
After two attempts in 2020 to replace a monitoring station of the coast of Chile, WHOI researchers and colleagues successfully deployed the moored system despite pandemic-related challenges. This extends a 20-year ongoing presence of a monitoring buoy in this otherwise data-sparse area of the Pacific.
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: 120 Years of AMOC Variability Reconstructed from Observations Using the Bernoulli Inverse
Neil Fraser, Scottish Association for Marine Science Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting:…
Read MoreAOP&E Department Virtual Seminar: Long-Range Propagation of Acoustic and Gravity Waves
Tiago Oliveira, University of Aveiro, Portugal Sponsored by: AOP&E Department This will be held virtually. Please Join: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/93873912253?pwd=Rmo0OXpTT2tJQmNsSzRVNTNwMG1Sdz09 Meeting ID:…
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