2023

Modeling physical transport and their impacts on biogeochemistry across scales in the ocean
Jing He, Ph.D., 2023
Amala Mahadevan, Advisor

2022

Structure, Variability, and Dynamics of the West Greenland Boundary Current System
Astrid Pacini, Ph.D., 2022
Robert Pickart, Advisor

2021

Characterizing the Impact of Underwater Glider Observations on the Navy Coastal Ocean Model (NCOM) in the Gulf Stream Region
Kyle Kausch, S.M., 2021
Robert Todd, Advisor

Control of the abyssal ocean overturning circulation by mixing-driven bottom boundary layers
Henri Drake, Ph.D., 2021
Raffaele Ferrari, Advisor

Vertical Fluxes in the Upper Ocean
Mara Freilich, Ph.D., 2021
Amala Mahadevan, Advisor

Pseudo-nitzschia in the Gulf of Maine: Investigating Bloom Dynamics, Species Introduction, and Climate Change Implications with Observations and Models
Suzanna Clark, Ph.D.
Dennis McGillicuddy, Co-Advisor
David Ralston, Co-Advisor

Estimating Atmospheric Boundary Layer Turbulence in the Marine Environment Using Lidar Systems with Applications for Offshore Wind Energy
Praneeth Gurumurthy, S.M., 2021
Anthony Kirincich, Advisor

Diagnosing the variability in temperature and velocity in the Middle Atlantic Bight
Jacob Forsyth, Ph.D., 2021
Magdalena Andres
Glen Gawarkiewicz

2020

An Analysis of Atlantic Water in the Arctic Ocean Using the Arctic Subpolar Gyre State Estimate and Observations
Jeffrey Grabon, S.M., 2020
John Toole, Advisor

Development and Testing of the AXBT Realtime Editing System (ARES)
Casey Densmore, S.M., 2020
Steven Jayne, Advisor

Residual Overturning Circulation and Its Connection to Southern Ocean Dynamics
Madeleine Youngs, Ph.D., 2020
Glen Flierl, Advisor

2019

Finescale Abyssal Turbulence: Sources and Modeling
Bryan Kaiser, Ph.D., 2019
Larry Pratt, Advisor

Oceanic Response Observations due to Passing Tropical Cyclones: An Assessment of Drag and Sea Spray Parameterizations
Stephan Gallagher, S.M., 2019
Steven Jayne, Advisor

Equatorial Ocean Dynamics Impacting Upwelling West of theGalápagos Archipelago
Julie Jakoboski, Ph.D., 2019
W. Brechner Owens, Co-Advisor
Robert E. Todd, Co-Advisor
Kristopher B. Karnauskas, Co-Advisor

Dynamics and Kinematics of an Estuarine Network

William Bryce Corlett, Ph.D., 2019
W. Rockwell Geyer, Advisor

Stratified and Stirred: Monsoon Freshwater in the Bay of Bengal

Gualtiero Spiro Jaeger, Ph.D., 2019
Amala Mahadevan, Advisor

Lagrangian Dispersion and Deformation in Submesoscale Flows

Sebastian Essink, Ph.D., 2019
Amala Mahadevan, Advisor

The Response of Ocean Salinity Patterns to Climate Change: Implications for Circulation

Samuel Levang, Ph.D., 2019
Raymond Schmitt, Advisor

The Influence of Heat Transport on Arctic Amplification

Laura Fleming, S.M., 2019
Young-Oh Kwon, Advisor

Distributional Models of Ocean Carbon Export

Cael Barry, Ph.D., 2019
Michael Follows, Advisor

2018

Chaotic Advection, Mixing, and Property Exchange in Three-Dimensional Ocean Eddies and Gyres

Genevieve Brett, Ph.D., 2018
Larry Pratt, Co-Advisor
Irina Rypina, Co-Advisor

2017

Age of Air and the Circulation of the Stratosphere

Marianna Linz, Ph.D., 2017
Alan Plumb

Internal Hydraulic Jumps with Upstream Shear

Kelly Ogden, Ph.D., 2017
Karl Helfrich, Advisor

Dynamics of North Atlantic Western Boundary Currents

Isabela Le Bras, Ph.D., 2017
John Toole, Advisor

Physics of Diurnal Warm Layers: Turbulence, Internal Waves, and Lateral Mixing

Alec Bogdanoff, Ph.D., 2017
Tom Farrar, Co-Advisor
Carol Anne Clayson, Co-Advisor

2016

Inferring Ocean Circulation During the Last Glacial Maximum and Last Deglaciation Using Data and Models

Daniel Amrhein, Ph.D., 2016
Carl Wunsch, Advisor

Mechanisms for Enhanced Turbulence in the Drake Passage Region of the Southern Ocean

Sophia Merrifield, Ph.D, 2016
Louis St. Laurent, and Breck Ownes, Co-advisors

Dynamics of Greenland’s Glacial Fjords

Rebeccca Jackson, Ph.D., 2016
Fiamma Straneo, Advisor

Vortices in Sinusoidal Shear, with Applications to Jupiter

Rohith Vilasur Swaminathan, S.M., 2016
Glenn Flierl, Advisor

Hydrodynamic and Morphodynamic Responses to Surfzone Seafloor Perturbations

Melissa Moulton, Ph.D., 2016
Steve Elgar, Advisor

Submesoscale Turbulence in the Upper Ocean

Jörn Callies, Ph.D., 2016
Raffaele Ferrari, Advisor

2015

Hydrographic Structure of Overflow Water Passing Through the Denmark Strait

Dana Mastropole, S.M., 2015
Robert Pickart, Advisor

Strong Wind Events Across Greenland's Coast and their Influences on the Ice Sheet, Sea Ice, and Ocean

Marilena Oltmanns, Ph.D., 2015
Fiamma Straneo, Advisor

2014

Buoyancy-Driven Circulation in the Red Sea

Ping Zhai, Ph.D., 2014
Amy Bower and Lawrence Pratt, Co-advisors

Investigating the Role of Trichodesmium spp. in the Oceanic Nitrogen Cycle Through Observations and Models

Elise Olson, Ph.D., 2014
Dennis McGillicuddy, Advisor

An Inverse Approach to Understanding Deglacial Benthic Oxygen Isotope Records from the Last Glaciation

Daniel Amrhein, S.M., 2014
Carl Wunsch, Advisor