Coastal Physical Oceanography @ Stony Brook

News

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Spring 2025:

• Welcome Fatemeh! Fatemeh’s PhD will be focused on quantifying estuarine heat fluxes and exploring drivers of temperature variability in dynamically different estuaries.

Fall 2024:

• Sebastian joins the lab as a PhD student! He will use NY Bight glider and mooring data to investigate the local internal wave environment.

• Successful launch of SBU02 for the late summer NYDEC Indicators mission and MARACOOS06 for the Fall NYDEC Indicator mission!

• Recovered the NYB moorings successfully! yay data!!

• Jacqueline and Joe present at the December AGU meeting!

• Jack receives funding from the SBU AI Innovation Institute Seed Fund Program for her project: “Developing Machine Learning Approaches to Classify Internal Waves from Subsurface Timeseries Data”

Summer 2024:

• Jacqueline (an undergrad from SUNY New Paltz) joins us for the summer, analyzing the internal waves survey data from 2023!

• Rituparna joins the lab as a research analyst! She’ll be working on Jack’s ONR project, linking internal wave shapes to turbulence patterns.

• We deployed 2 moorings on the NYB inner and mid shelf. This time, we’re collecting direct measurements of dissipation! After the mooring deployment, we did a brief survey near the moorings which entailed Joe Jurisa collecting microstructure data with a Rockland MicroCTD and ring net tows of the upper water column every 30 mins to collect plankton.

Spring 2024:

• Jack chairs a “Mixing in shelf seas, the nearshore, and estuarine environments” session at Ocean Sciences in New Orleans

Fall 2023:

• Maggie joins the lab as a Masters student! She’ll be studying salinity variability in Great South Bay using existing data from Charlie Flagg’s observational program.

• Jack receives a Minghua Zhang Faculty Career Catalyst Award for her proposal on “Interannual Variability of Internal Waves in the Coastal New York Bight”

• Gabe joins the lab as a volunteer! He’ll be developing his own project, in support of Jack’s ongoing ONR project focused on internal waves in central California.

• Moorings recovered!

Summer 2023:

• Jack gives an invited talk at the Gordon Research Conference on Coastal Ocean Dynamics. What a great opportunity to share our work and connect with friends!

• We successfully collected in situ observations of internal waves from the New York Bight from 2 moorings and a wave-chasing survey! Thanks to Joe Jurisa and Joe Warren for your collaboration.

Fall 2022:

• Jack receives a Minghua Zhang Faculty Career Catalyst Award, funding her proposal: “Collecting New Observations to Measure Internal Wave Driven Mixing of the Cold Pool”

Summer 2022:

• Lang (Maggie) Ming joins our group for the summer, as an undergraduate research intern! She’ll be analyzing data from the OOI Coastal Pioneer Array, looking for signals of the internal tide.

• Christina, a student at Kings Park High School, joins the lab for the summer! She’ll be learning python, with the ultimate goal of analyzing spatiotemporal distributions of Atlantic Menhaden in Long Island Sound and the NY Bight.

Spring 2022:

• Jack’s ONR proposal “Quantifying Patterns of Internal Wave Properties and Turbulence over the Inner Shelf”, a collaboration with Amy Waterhouse, is funded! Let the analysis begin!