Applied Physics Lab. Ocean Physics Department University of Washington

						
1013 NE 40th St.,
Seattle, WA 98105
Phone: (206)897-1446  
Fax:   (206)543-6785
e-mail: ashcherbina@apl.washington.edu

Projects:

• NASA Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study (SPURS)
• ONR Scalable Lateral Mixing and Coherent Turbulence DRI (LatMix)
• Intrusions in the North Pacific Subtropical Frontal Zone
• Outer Cape Cod winter cooling
  
• Okhotsk Sea Dense Water formation (Ph.D. thesis)
  
• ONR Japan/East Sea

Research interests:

• Observation and modeling of coastal and shelf processes
• High-latitude dense water formation and cross-shelf transport
• Combined effects of wind, tidal, and buoyancy forcing in coastal ocean
• Brine rejection and dense water formation
• Tidal mixing and frontogenesis