Neil Banas
is a coastal oceanographer and environmental humanities teacher at the University of Washington.
→ computational art and design: neilbanas.com
Applied Physics Lab
Box 355640
University of Washington
Seattle WA 98195
email: neil at apl.washington.edu
Teaching
Northwest Coastal Stories
Order, Chaos, and Resilience in Science and Culture
Honors A&S 253B / 222B, Spr 2009
→ download syllabus
“Scales of variation in Puget Sound circulation”
(Computer lab handout for use with the Babson-Kawase-MacCready box model, Spr 2006)
Research
Controls on primary production in a new, mid-complexity model of Hood Canal
poster (7 MB PDF) presented at CERF, 2009
Ecosystem modeling for the Columbia River plume region
part of the NSF RISE program
→ more information ←
PAPERS
Banas et al (2009), " Planktonic growth and grazing in the Columbia River plume region"
Banas et al (2009), " The Columbia River plume as along-shelf barrier and cross-shelf exporter"
Hickey and Banas (2008), " Why is the northern end of the California Current System so productive?"
ART INSTALLATIONS
Carrie Bodle, Sewing Sonifications (2009)
Visualization and interactive models
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My PhD work with Barbara Hickey was
Dynamics of Willapa Bay, Washington
Links to the coastal ocean, tidal dispersion, and oyster carrying capacity
Green crab larval retention in Willapa Bay, Washington: An intensive Lagrangian modeling approach
(Banas, MacDonald, and Armstrong, 2009)
→ paper (Estuaries and Coasts)
→ poster
“Priests, tricksters, and holy wanderers in the practice of natural history”
(Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion meeting, Eugene, OR, 2002)
Banas, Wang, and Yen (2004), Experimental validation of an individual-based model for zooplankton swarming (Handbook of Scaling Methods in Aquatic Ecology, Seuront & Strutton, eds., CRC Press) (1 MB manuscript / 19 MB scan)
Quiet Creatures: A Summer on Long Island
(masters thesis, Religious Studies, Univ of Colorado, 1998)
Art + Design
collections on flickr: thematic version / chronological version
Photography
photostream: flickr.com/photos/neilbanas
Seafood pocket guide, 2009
A synthesis and redesign of sustainability-based recommendations from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and warnings about toxins from the Environmental Defense Fund.
all photos and unpublished work on this site fall under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial2.5 License.
