Melanie Chanona was awarded the Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial award for undergraduate research upon graduating from Mathematical Physics. In September, Melanie will start her graduate studies in Physical Oceanography with Prof. Stephanie Waterman at UBC.
The following paper was accepted and appeared in the May issue of the journal.
Bembenek, E., Poulin, F.J. and Waite, M.L., (2015), Realizing surface driven flows in the primitive equations, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 45, 1376–1392.
At the 49th CMOS Congress and 13th AMS Conference o Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Prof Poulin presented the following:
"A study of a surface trapped elliptical anticyclone at finite Rossby Number" (talk)
"The occurrance of Yanai waves in constrained geometries" (poster)
At the 20th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics Prof Poulin presented:
"The Stability of Oceanic Shallow Water Fronts" (talk)
and Ben Storer presented
"The occurrance of Yanai waves in constrained geometries" (poster)
The following paper was submitted for publication.
M. Chanona, F.J. Poulin and J. Yawney, "The Stability of Oceanic Fronts in a Shallow Water Model" (2014), Journal of Fluid Mechanics
The following paper was submitted for publication.
Borissov, A., Storer, B.A., Poulin, F.J. and Stastna, M., (2014), A Shallow Water Model of the Solar Tachocline: A Numerical Approach to Determine Wave Structure, Astronomy & Astrophysics
Eric Bembenek successfully defended his Masters thesis.
The following paper was accepted for publication:
Darcy A.A. Taniguchi, Peter J.S. Franks, and Francis J. Poulin, (2014), Planktonic biomass size spectra: an emergent property of size-dependent physiological rates, food web dynamics, and nutrient regimes, Marine Ecology Progress Series.
The following paper was accepted for publication:
Irwin, R.L. and Poulin, F.J., (2014), Geophysical Instabilities in a Two-Layer, Rotating Shallow Water Model, J. Phys. Oceanogr.
The Director and four graduate students will be attending and presenting at the 6th International Workshop on Ocean Modelling at Dalhousie University from June 23 to 27.