Our Research is Global
The ocean covers 70 percent of the Earth’s surface and, coupled with the atmosphere, the ocean forms the heart of our global climate system, influencing weather, habitats, and life across every corner of the planet.
For more than 5,000 years scientists have studied ocean currents and the biogeochemistry of seawater in an effort to demystify the dynamics, cycling, and exchanges of the ocean. Yet, the ocean is so vast that many mysteries remain today. Researchers in Ocean Sciences at the Rosenstiel School now explore the ocean using instrumentation and technology that can observe and simulate ocean processes at more precise scales, for more sustained periods, and at greater depths than ever before.
From the scientist deploying robotic platforms in the Cape Basin, sampling microbes in the deep Pacific or dropping profiling floats under the path of a Caribbean hurricane, to the scientist studying satellite radar imagery, running a mass spectrometer, or developing computer simulations, we at the Rosenstiel school contribute at the forefront of human understanding about the global ocean.
- Numerical modeling of coastal ocean circulation
- Chloroflorohydrocarbons (CFCs) as tracers in ocean circulation studies
- Remote-sensing meteorologic research
- Ocean model development
- Seagoing oceanic measurements in coastal and deep oceans
- Marine ecosystem dynamics
- Hurricane studies of the loop current using airborne ocean probes
coupled with modeling
- Air-sea interaction
- High-frequency radar studies that map coastal ocean surface currents and waves
- Theoretical and experimental studies of ocean acoustics
- Observations and models of the tropical and subtropical circulations of the ocean
- Climate change
- Biogeochemistry of carbon and major nutrients
- Dynamics of trace elements and their isotopes
- Marine organic geochemistry
- Microbial biogeochemistry
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