Expertise

Emphasis:

  • coastal circulation and across-shelf exchange processes, estuarine circulation and exchange processes, physical-biological coupling in the marine environment, and ocean observing systems. 

I am interested in physical processes that influence three-dimensional transport in the coastal ocean as well as how this transport impacts marine ecosystems.

I am interested in how physical forcings, like tides, winds and river discharge, drive water movement and layering of different water types in coastal and estuarine systems as well as how physical conditions like water temperature, salinity, and stratification, impact marine ecosystems.

My research is focused on understanding relationships between coastal/estuarine circulation and hydrographic conditions and the associated dynamics as well as interactions between the coastal ocean and atmospheric phenomena.

His research interests lie in coastal physical oceanography (things related to  the structure and flow of water, i.e. currents, tides, stratification) as well as how physical processes impact biogeochemical cycling and ecosytem function

Communities
Marine Biology, Ocean Sciences
Degrees
PhD, University of Delaware, Physical Oceanography, 2009
MS, University of Delaware, Oceanographic Remote Sensing, 2003
BA, College of New Jersey, Mathematics , 1999