Susan Allen


Warning: Undefined array key "className" in /www_data/www/wp-content/plugins/ubc-subcategories-block/ubc-subcategory-block.php on line 105

Warning: Undefined array key "className" in /www_data/www/wp-content/plugins/ubc-subcategories-block/ubc-subcategory-block.php on line 105

Warning: Undefined array key "className" in /www_data/www/wp-content/plugins/ubc-subcategories-block/ubc-subcategory-block.php on line 105

Warning: Undefined array key "className" in /www_data/www/wp-content/plugins/ubc-subcategories-block/ubc-subcategory-block.php on line 105

Warning: Undefined array key "className" in /www_data/www/wp-content/plugins/ubc-subcategories-block/ubc-subcategory-block.php on line 105

Warning: Undefined array key "className" in /www_data/www/wp-content/plugins/ubc-subcategories-block/ubc-subcategory-block.php on line 105

Warning: Undefined array key "className" in /www_data/www/wp-content/plugins/ubc-subcategories-block/ubc-subcategory-block.php on line 105

Warning: Undefined array key "className" in /www_data/www/wp-content/plugins/ubc-subcategories-block/ubc-subcategory-block.php on line 105

Supervisor

Susan Allen

UBC Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences

I am a physical oceanographer with skills in fluid mechanics including scaling, analytics, laboratory and numerical modeling. My areas of application include coastal oceanography, mesoscale meteorology and biogeochemical-physical interactions in the ocean.

My largest scholarly contributions have been to 1) understand flow over and around topography; particularly canyons, and the resulting impacts on cross-shelf exchange. I have also made significant contributions to 2) our understanding of biological-physical interactions; in particular, the impact of surface processes on the timing of the phytoplankton spring bloom and 3) in collaboration with D. Steyn, I have contributed to the study of atmosphere buoyancy driven flows within mountains. 4) Lastly, I work in an interdisciplinary oceanography group within the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences. As a community member I have made contributions to a number of fields, usually through applying my modeling or analytics skills. If one can create a simple model of a phenomenon, so much of our intuition and understanding can be illustrated and quantified.

My latest project (since Fall 2013) has been a short-term forecast model for the Salish Sea as part of the Marine Environment Observation, Predication and Response Network of Centres of Excellence.

Supervised Students

Comments are closed, but trackbacks and pingbacks are open.