Please join us on Thursday, May 26 at 8am (Pacific Time) for a virtual discussion with the University of Southampton.
We will begin with brief talks from Dr. Tom Bibby, "Diagnosing the molecular basis of nutrient limitation in Trichodesismum", and Dr. Katherine Barbeau, "Molecular markers of iron limitation in the California Current ecosystem."
Following the talks, there will be an open discussion.
Talk Abstract: TBA
The weak temperature gradient (WTG) approximation is extended to the basic equations on a rotating plane. The circulation is decomposed into a diabatic component that satisfies WTG balance exactly and a deviation from this balance. Scale analysis of the decomposed basic equations reveals a spectrum of motions, including unbalanced inertio-gravity waves and several systems that are in approximate WTG balance. The balanced systems include equatorial moisture modes with features reminiscent of the MJO, off-equatorial moisture modes that resemble tropical…
Please join us on zoom or in person for this week's hybrid Polar Hour with Dr. Michelle Shero (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution).
All welcome to join, listen, discuss, and build community!
Talk Abstract:
In many parts of the global ocean, density compensated temperature (T) and salinity (S) anomalies, known as ocean spice, highlight processes that interleave, stir and eventually mix water from different sources. The unique spatial and temporal structure of upper ocean spice patterns is set by the large-scale dynamics and the balance between different frontal processes, such as subduction, turbulent mixing, and atmospheric forcing that create, distribute and destroy spice. Spice variability also plays a substantial role…
Please join us on zoom or in person for this week's hybrid Polar Hour with Dr. Earle Wilson (Caltech).
All welcome to join, listen, discuss, and build community!
Institutional Seminar Series
(in person)
Thursday, May 12
at Scripps Seaside Forum Auditorium
12:30 p.m. Talks begin w/ Q&A
Food to be served after
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The role of conservation technology in the recovery of an endangered reef fish
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Talk Abstract: TBA
The climate system involves a variety of nonlinearly interacting physical processes spanning a broad range of spatial and temporal scales. To make simulations of the climate system computationally tractable, processes with scales smaller than the typical grid size of climate models have to be parameterized. Recently, there has been substantial interest (and progress) in using deep learning techniques to develop data-driven subgrid-scale (SGS) parameterizations for a number of key processes in the atmosphere, ocean, and other…
Please join us (online or in-person!) Tuesday, May 10th for a student research symposium exploring marine mammal acoustics, presented by students from the Mt. Edgecumbe High School in Sitka, Alaska and Oakland Technical High School in Oakland, CA. The symposium will take place on the gorgeous campus of Scripps Institution of Oceanography (masks required), and virtual attendees are welcome!
These students have contributed significantly to marine mammal research through an internship and technology training program, called SeaTech. In this program, high school students…