On March 26, 2025, the Inter-campus Marine Science (IMS) of University of Massachusetts (UMass) hosted the annual symposium at the School for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST). The event brought together students and faculties from various UMass campuses to showcase their latest findings and innovations in marine science, in forms of posters, lightning talks and plenary talks.

This year, all the members of the Tandon lab participated in the symposium. PhD student Parth Sastry presented a lightning talk and a poster on his work in idealized anticyclonic eddy simulations with applications to the eastern tropical Pacific. The poster was awarded a second runner-up position in the event. Congratulations Parth!

PhD student Debarshi Sarkar, presented his work as a poster and lightning talk on air-sea heat flux biases in reanalysis products during the months of spring in the Arabian Sea. Apart from participating in the symposium, Debarshi was also a member of the organizing committee which made the symposium possible. PhD students Siddhant Kerhalkar presented a poster on his work in tropical cyclone (TC) Biparjoy’s wake recovery. This article was published in Geophysical Research Letter recently (here). Postdoc Dr. Ramana Patibandla also presented a poster on his work in near inertial wave propagation in curved fronts.

Note: All the posters are available online (Posters – 2025 IMS Research Symposium).

 

Dr. Amit Tandon and Tandon Lab members Debarshi, Siddhant, and Ramana attended the EKAMSAT (Enhancing Knowledge of the Arabian Sea Marine Environment through Science and Advanced Technology) update meeting held on March 6–7, 2025. The meeting was hosted by Dr. Aneesh Subramaniam at the University of Colorado, Boulder. This two-day intensive meeting included a series of back-to-back sessions, where researchers from various collaborating universities and institutes shared updates on their work. These talks helped everyone stay on the same page and move closer to the goals of the EKAMSAT program.

Siddhant presented a 10-minute talk titled “Impacts of Salinity Stratification on SST in the Northern Indian Ocean Warm Pool” and Debarshi presented two 10-minute talks on air-sea heat flux biases in reanalysis products and the submesoscale variabilities in air-sea flux parameters during the time of monsoon transition.

The meeting concluded with participants dividing into groups based on shared research interests. Each group worked on summarizing the main scientific findings from the talks and discussions and identifying key questions that still need to be addressed.