Exploring the upper ocean

Tandon Laboratory at UMass Dartmouth

Month: July 2021

Title: Caue Zirnberger Lazaneo successfully defends his dissertation

Congratulations to Dr. Caue Lazaneo! 

Caue defended his PhD dissertation titled “Mixing and Submesoscale Dynamics on the Western South Atlantic Ocean” on July 29, 2021. This session involved him giving a public talk for about 50 minutes which was followed by a closed room Q&A session with his advisors Prof Ilson da Silveira (USP), Prof Amit Tandon (UMass Dartmouth) and committee members Prof Joseph Harari (USP), Prof Dan MacDonald (UMass Dartmouth) and Prof Paulo Calil (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon). 

Caue was enrolled in the UMass Dartmouth- USP Dual Degree PhD program.

PILOT EXPERIMENT TO GET ACOUSTIC DATA ON RAIN

July 08. 2021: We now have two hydrophones and a weather station deployed on our pier at the School for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST), just in time for Tropical Storm Elsa, to get some good pilot data this weekend. Alan and CJ did a great job getting everything together for the deployment before Alan heads to San Diego to work in Dr Luca Centurioni’s lab. Forrest and Jen, the SMAST divers were super helpful working with us.

The hydrophones are approximately 1m and 2m below the low tide mark, and the tide is roughly 1 m here, so we’ll get a range of depths over time.

Tandon Lab now functioning in person amidst the pandemic

Since the COVID-19 was in full force in Massachusetts for the past year, the members of the Tandon Lab were forced to stay at home (as per the local policies) and work remotely. But the rapid vaccination campaigns across the state lead to the university allowing the research to be conducted in person. This lead to a very unique setting of a hybrid meeting on June 10, 2021 where the local members of the group attended the meeting in-person at the SMAST East conference room while the international members attended this meeting remotely (via zoom). This is because Prof Tandon co-advises a lot of students from international collaborations (including the dual degree PhD students from the University of Sao Paolo) who could not join us to meet in person due to the current travel restrictions.

Sitting: Patrick, Standing (from left): Prof Tandon, Alan, Iury, Ersen’S and Sid at SMAST-East conference room

Local participants included Prof Amit Tandon, Iury (PhD candidate), Sid (PhD student), Patrick (Masters student), Alan (Former REU and incoming Masters student) and Ersen’S (Summer REU student) while international members included Shikha (Scientist at IITM Pune), Filipe (PhD dual degree candidate) and Caique (Masters student at USP co-advised with Prof Ilson). The unique settings were a challenge initially but the members of the group were resilient during the meeting. Tandon Lab is now functioning in person.

Local Members of Tandon Lab with the glorious SMAST-E building in the background. From left: Sid, Iury, Prof Tandon, Patrick, Alan, Ersen’S and CJ

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