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CURRENT RESEARCH
- USRS: High-resolution modeling of Hood Canal
- Estuarine Salinity Variance: a new method for understanding estuarine mixing and the exchange flow
- LiveOcean: Forecasting Ocean Acidification for the NE Pacific
- MERHAB: Forecasting the arrival of Harmful Algal Blooms in the NE Pacific
- Estuarine Inflow: where does the water come from on the shelf that is drawn into estuaries?
- Slow Slip Earthquakes and the physical oceanography of bottom pressure variation
- Green Crab Tracking in the Salish Sea
- West Coast-Coastal Ocean Modeling Testbed
PAST RESEARCH
- Available Potential Energy in regional models
- SciDAC: Efficient representation of estuarine and river plume processes in global climate models
- PNWTOX: Prediction of Harmful Algal Blooms on the Pacific Northwest coast
- RISE: River Influences on Shelf Ecosystems
- MoSSea: Modeling the Salish Sea
- TEF: The Total Exchange Flow - a method for quantifying the estuarine exchange flow using salinity to sort the transport
- Estuarine Dynamics: Theoretical predictions of estuarine scaling, sensitivity to changes in forcing, and adjustment time
- PPOD: Observations of form drag using bottom pressure sensors
- Three Tree Point: Flow over Rough Topography
- CaribVent: Overflow plumes into the deep Caribbean
- Southern Ocean: Nitrate budget of the Southern Ocean, and dynamics of meridional transport across the ACC
- Arrested Ekman Layer: How is the bottom Ekman layer changed (fundamentally) by stratification and sloping bathymetry?
- Pogo Foil: A human posered hydrofoil boat with flapping wing propulsion (!)
- Vorticity Drifters: Measuring surface vorticity at 1 m scale with a swarm of relocatable drifters