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Ocean and Climate Dynamics @UCI

Principal Investigator: Henri F. Drake, Department of Earth System Science

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Resources

Resources


Application materials for academic positions that were successful and which I accepted

  • PhD Programs (Personal Statement for MIT/WHOI Joint Program)
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (Full Application Materials)
  • NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoc Fellowship (Full Application Materials)
  • Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position (Full Application Materials for UCI ESS)

Ocean, Climate, & Earth Science Affinity Groups

Mentoring Physical Oceanography Women to Increase Retention (MPOWIR)

Society for Women in Marine Science (SWMS)

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Geoscience (AAPIiG)

Geolatinas

Black in Geoscience

International Association for Geoscience Diversity (IAGD)

2019 SWMS Symposium Planning Committee

Inspiring papers

The following are a list of papers that clearly and concisely present paradigm-shifting ideas on the topics of Ocean and Climate Dynamics, which we take as inspiration for own our efforts. (It is important to remember that hiding behind many such papers is the authors’ years-long struggles with the material, often manifested in the form of papers that are far less pleasant to read).

A Simple Box Model of Stochastically Forced Thermohaline Flow. Cessi (1994), Journal of Physical Oceanography. [DOI]

Available potential energy and mixing in density-stratified fluids. Winters, Lombard, Riley, D’Asaro (1995), Journal of Fluid Mechanics. [DOI]

A simple predictive model for the structure of the oceanic pycnocline. Gnanadesikan (1999), Science. [DOI]

Horizontal convection is non-turbulent. Paparella and Young (2002), Journal of Fluid Mechanics. [DOI]

On the Origins of the Oceanic Ultraviolet Catastrophe. Dematteis, Polzin, Lvov (2022), Journal of Physical Oceanography. [DOI]

Quantifying the physical processes leading to atmospheric hot extremes at a global scale. Röthlisberger and Papritz (2024), Nature Geoscience. [DOI]


More coming soon

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