Dr. Amit Tandon, along with Tandon Lab members Debarshi Sarkar and Parth Sastry, and former PhD student Dr. Siddhant Kerhalkar, attended the third EKAMSAT (Enhancing Knowledge of the Arabian Sea Marine Environment through Science and Advanced Technology) update meeting on September 10-11, 2025. The meeting, hosted by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), was held at the ProteQ facility in Herndon, Virginia.

The two-day program featured a series of back-to-back sessions, where researchers from collaborating universities and institutes shared progress on topics ranging from basin-scale modeling and process studies to insights gained from the 2023, 2024, and most recent 2025 field campaigns.

Debarshi delivered a 12-minute presentation on the causes of spatial variability in air-sea heat and momentum fluxes, drawing on observations from the 2024 and 2025 campaigns. Parth presented his analysis of horizontal stirring along isopycnals using Argo float data in the Bay of Bengal. Dr. Kerhalkar, now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hawai‘i, presented part of his doctoral work on the influence of salinity stratification on diurnal warm layers, as well as plans for his upcoming postdoctoral research aimed at improving wave-based bulk formulations.

Parth presenting his work in the EKAMSAT-DRI meeting.

Debarshi presenting his work in the EKAMSAT-DRI meeting.

Dr. Kerhalkar presenting his work in the EKAMSAT-DRI meeting.