
Supervisor
Stephanie Waterman
UBC Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
My research aims to advance our understanding of ocean mixing:
- Mixing rates
- Space-time distributions
- Mechanisms
- Impacts
- Model representations
To do so we are:
1. Pioneering the use of a robotic ocean observing platform (an ‚”ocean glider”) that provides near-continuous, sustained measurements of ocean turbulence and delivers unprecedented views of the ocean mixing environment;
2. Exploiting turbulence parameterizations to infer mixing rates from more readily-available ocean observations thus delivering insights into the variability of ocean mixing on time and space scales previously inaccessible
3. Conducting “thought experiment” model studies targeting process-level understanding and the development of new theoretical frameworks for the parametrization of mixing, stirring, and scale-interactions in ocean models.
Supervised Students
-
Claire Parrott
UBC Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
-
Ben O’Connor
UBC Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Comments are closed, but trackbacks and pingbacks are open.