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Senior Scientist
Prof. Tandon uses his knowledge of Fluid Mechanics and Physical Oceanography to address a myriad of problems involving mixing processes in the upper ocean. He uses analytical and numerical modeling to address the importance of mixing and mixed layer processes for ocean circulation and climate. His research interests span from small- scale turbulence and oceanic mixed- layer processes, to sub-mesoscale frontal gradients and mesoscale eddies, and their role in setting up the large scale balances in the ocean. |
Current Members
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Ph.D. Fellow at UMass Dartmouth (Engineering and Applied Science). He is currently working on the NISKINe project studying the interaction of Near-Inertial waves with baroclinic eddy fields. He is also interested in biophysical processes, working with prof. Amala Mahadevan (WHOI) investigating the role of the eddy-driven submesoscale restratification on phytoplankton blooms. |
Ph.D. Candidate at UMass Dartmouth – University of São Paulo dual-degree program (School of Marine Sciences and Technology). He is currently working on understanding the turbulent mixing across the density surfaces, which can bring nutrient-rich waters from the subsurface to the upper sunlit layer of the ocean, therefore, modulating the primary productivity in an oligotrophic ocean. |
Ph.D. Student at UMassD – University of São Paulo dual-degree program. Filipe is currently working on the dynamics of a coastal upwelling front off SE Brazil in a submesoscale sense, its interaction with the meanders of the Brazil Current, and the biological effects of these phenomena on the planktonic dynamics of the region. |
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Shikha Singh is a Scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology Pune, India. She is PhD scholar at IIT Bombay with Prof Sridhar Balasubramanian. She is visiting the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth as a Fulbright Scholar and is working with Prof Amit Tandon on ‘parameterizing upper ocean mixing processes in models’. |
Alan is a Mechanical Engineering undergrad student at UMass Dartmouth enrolled in the BS/MS program and recently joined Prof. Tandon’s lab. He is working on developing a numerical model of a geostrophic flow over a topographic bump. Further development of the model will incorporate varying density throughout the water column. |
Ersen’S is a Mechanical Engineering undergrad student at UMass Dartmouth and recently joined Prof. Tandon’s lab. |
Past Members
Former Ph.D. Candidate at the University of São Paulo co-advised by prof. Amit Tandon and worked on understanding the submesoscale processes resulting from the interaction between the Brazil Current and the Vitória-Trindade Ridge (Western South Atlantic). Currently, he is working as a Postdoc investigator at Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Óceanographie Spatiales, Toulouse, France. |
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Brian Mingels (MSME, BSME, REU)
Josh Tombs (MSEE/BSEE, ECE)
Peter Khoury (MSME)
Guido Rosa from USP Brazil.
Eric Holmes, Danielle Tinkham (MS Physics)
Dr. Liuzhi Zhao, Postdoc.
Past REUs: Honors Thesis Jason Vaccaro (now at NUWC), Samuel Fillettaz-Domingues(BSME), Nevin Miller, John Bui, Dr. Jason Olejarz.
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