The new wave of oceanographers: Sijing Shen
PhD student in physical oceanography concentrating on the impact of warm and salty Indian Ocean water leakage into the Cape Cauldron region of the southeast Atlantic.
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The new wave of oceanographers: Ali Johnson
PhD student interested in submeso- to large scale ocean dynamics. Ali Jonhson is a PhD student at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography. SWOT AdAC: What is your field of research and how did you choose it? Ali Johnson: I am an observational physical oceanographer interested in submeso- to large scale ocean dynamics. I currently study cross frontal exchange and eddy heat flux across jets of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in the lee of
QUICCHE blog: Round the southernmost tip off Africa
Credit: Isabelle Giddy. By Isabelle Giddy Round the southernmost tip off Africa. We’ve won, we’ve lost, we’ve learnt, we’ve discovered. Withstood swells and currents worthy of their reputation. Upon seemingly a lone royal blue spec heaving in the middle of the Cape Cauldron, Less a lonely storm petrel to be seen, fluorescent pyrosome, light-addicted squid The dark moonless nights beam, reminder that somewhere SWOT is circling, watching. We have gathered in our watches, tirelessly, happily for the
The new wave of oceanographers: Tesha Toolse
PhD student interested in the synoptic scale air-sea exchange of carbon dioxide in the Southern Ocean using insight from autonomous gliders. Tesha Toolse did a BSc(Hons) degree in Ocean and Atmosphere Science, followed by a MSc by dissertation degree specialising in Physical Oceanography at the University of Cape Town. She is currently pursuing a PhD with the Southern Ocean Carbon-Climate Observatory (SOCCO-CSIR), in affiliation with the University of Cape Town, South Africa. SWOT AdAC: What is your
QUICCHE blog: What a truly beautiful place the ocean can be!
Greetings from the R/V Roger Revelle! I’m Will Stewart, a first-year PhD student at Bangor University on this ship as a part of the QUICCHE team. Unlike most others on the team, my usual research concerns the Arctic, so I don’t have as defined a role as many other people; instead, I help out where I can, especially with the Vertical Microstructure Profiler (VMP) and microplastic sampling taken from the CTD casts. It’s certainly been
The new wave of oceanographers: Isabelle Giddy
Postdoctoral researcher studying the studying the role of wind-driven turbulence in mediating momentum and heath flux in the Southern Ocean in Sebastiaan Swart’s research group at the University of Polar Gliders.
QUICCHE blog: Land. This is ship.
Land. This is ship. The one with the radio today is Johan Edholm , and I’m a PhD student in physical oceanography with Polar Gliders from the University of Gothenburg. Our group is quite focused on heat transfer between the ocean and the atmosphere. This is quite important to know since excess heat from the atmosphere is taken up by the ocean, which dampens our warming effect on the climate. There are four major processes that control
The new wave of oceanographers: Johan Edholm
Physical oceanographer focusing on the transfer of heat and momentum between the atmosphere and the upper ocean in the Southern Ocean. Johan Edholm is a research assistant at the University of Gothenburg, in the Polar Gliders research group. SWOT AdAC: What is your field of research and how did you choose it? Johan Edholm: My field of research lies within observational physical oceanography, and my interests include the transfer of heat and momentum between the
QUICCHE blog: One week left and “there can be only one”…
Hi everyone, my name is Nothando Duma, a Masters student at the University of Cape Town. This is my first research cruise and I am here to collect nitrates(NO3-) and dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) isotope ratios and nutrient samples. I collect these from the water samples collected by the CTD Rosette. When I’m not collecting my own samples I assist in other areas such as the data collection of the Vertical Microstructure Profiler (VMP), deployment
The new wave of oceanographers: Estel Font
PhD student in physical oceanography looking at fine scale dynamics using underwater autonomous vehicles. Estel Font got a Master’s degree from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) and she is currently a PhD student at the University of Gothenburg (Gothenburg, Sweden). SWOT AdAC: What is your field of research and how is it related to SWOT? Estel Font: I am a physical oceanographer looking at fine scale dynamics in the Gulf of Oman and their role