On July 8, 2025, Dr. Christian Buckingham, a scientist from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Southampton, and former Assistant Research Professor at UMass Dartmouth (SMAST), visited the Tandon Lab. The visit brought together a range of expertise, sparking engaging discussions across diverse research areas. Dr. Buckingham presented his recent work on the development of reflectometry-based remote sensing devices, and members of the Tandon Lab shared their ongoing research, spanning observational and modeling studies in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, as well as more fundamental theoretical work.

After offering insightful suggestions on the graduate students’ research, Dr. Tandon, Dr. Buckingham, and Dr. Patibandla (Postdoctoral Researcher at the Tandon Lab) spent additional time exploring new frontiers in oceanographic science and discussing opportunities for future collaboration between Dr. Buckingham and the Tandon Lab.

It was a day well spent!

(From left) High school intern Lia Huang, Debarshi Sarkar, Siddhant Kerhalkar, Parth Sastry, Dr. Amit Tandon, Dr. Christian Buckingham and Dr. Ramana Patibandla, in front of SMAST-East (@photo by Adriano Giangiardi)