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Chris Chickadel
Principal Oceanographer Affiliate Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering |
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- Air-Sea Exchange—gas and heat, biogeochemical cycling, rainfall
- Coastal—rivers, tidal flats, nearshore
- Ocean/Atmosphere—climate change, ocean circulation, atmospheric rolls, hurricanes
- Sensors—microwave, infrared, laser, hydrophone, dissolved gas
- Waves—wave breaking, internal waves
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Our remote sensing tools span a wide range of scales — from satellite remote sensing, to field experiments using surface and airborne platforms, and to laboratory experiments in wave tanks. Remote sensing instruments used include electro-optical sensors (microwave, infrared, and laser) and acoustic sensors (sonars and hydrophones).
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Mapping Underwater Turbulence with Sound |
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Riding Waves to Generate Electricity |
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A recently published paper details the flow conditions around a full-scale hydrokinetic river turbine.
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microSWIFTs: Tiny Oceanographic Floats Measure Extreme Coastal Conditions
Jim Thomson, EJ Rainville, Jacob Davis, Madison Smith
19 April 2022
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Using a Wave Energy Converter for UUV Recharge
Curtis Rusch, Morteza Derakhti, Brian Polagye, Dana Manalang, Jim Thomson
11 April 2022
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Hurricane Coastal Impacts
Jim Thomson, Alex de Klerk
14 December 2021
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What Are Ocean Predators Doing So Deep Underwater?
The Atlantic
Stephanie Pain
5 June 2022
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Call of the Deep
Knowable Magazine
Stephanie Pain
31 May 2022
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Overcoming the challenges of ocean data uncertainty
EOS – Science News by AGU
12 January 2022
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Air-ice-ocean interactions and the delay of autumn freeze-up in the Western Arctic Ocean
Thomson, J., M. Smith, K. Drushka, and C. Lee
15 June 2022
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Tracer and observationally derived constraints on diapycnal diffusivities in an ocean state estimate
Trossman, D.S., C.B. Whalen, T.W.N. Haine, A.F. Waterhouse, A.T. Nguyen, A. Bigdeli, M. Mazloff, and P. Heimbach
30 May 2022
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Seasonality of the mesoscale inverse cascade as inferred from global scale-dependent eddy energy observations
Steinberg, J.M., S.T. Cole, K. Drushka, and R.P. Abernathy
6 May 2022
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