The MUST project is a prestigious multi-departmental initiative within UMass Dartmouth, funded by the Office of Naval Research. Its primary objective is to advance cutting-edge research while cultivating a highly skilled workforce to support the needs of the U.S. Navy. UMass Dartmouth hosted the MUST Day event from 24th to 25 July 2024, providing an opportunity for professors and graduate students supported by the project to showcase their research and technical advancements through a series of 10-minute presentations and poster sessions.

The Tandon Lab made a strong impact at the event. Professor Tandon led the talk, ‘MITS: Sub-mesoscale and Mesoscale Interactions Study (SubMIST),’ and contributed to the presentations ‘Regional Ocean Turbulence from Long-Duration, Autonomous Observations’ and ‘Acoustic Rainfall Measurement on Global Drifters’.

Former master’s student Patrick Pasteris on behalf of the Aurelia team presented the on-going work, ‘Optimizing the Design of a Novel Upper Ocean Variable Buoyancy Vehicle.’ This began as a senior design project a few years ago and was also a topic of Patrick’s MS thesis. Current master’s student Ersen’S Joseph showcased his ongoing research on flow-structure interactions of grooved mooring lines through a poster presentation, while current PhD student Debarshi Sarkar discussed the errors and causes of the errors in atmospheric Reanalysis Products during the southwest monsoon season, in his poster session.