Each university within this MURI is dedicated to involving undergraduates in research. Below is list of current undergraduate researchers within labs and a brief description of their projects.
Brown University
- Simon has developed useful tools for satellite tracking and MODIS data query and download, and assisted with data analysis.
- Benjamin has been analyzing surface drifter data for characterizing mesoscale eddies in the Arctic Ocean.
California Institute of Technology
- Emma’s work relates to the dispersion of sea ice floes due to oceanic eddies. She uses a model of sea ice floes coupled to an ocean model to explore how floe size influences the width of the marginal ice zone and its energetics
- Rohaiz’s work will look at energetics related to ice, ocean, and atmospheric coupling.
Dartmouth College
- Karun’s work within Dimitris Giannakis’ group is on Markov modeling of Arctic buoy data. By analyzing the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a Markov operator estimated from buoy position data, he identifies near-invariant sets under the forward evolution of the system, and their corresponding basins of attraction. With this, we decompose the Arctic Ocean into a set of “weakly interacting” regions, and develop a probabilistic model for the evolution of surface material distribution over time.
University of Washington
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Robin is an undergraduate research assistant working on the development of Python-based GUI for visualization of data and segmentation of oceanographycally-relevant features.
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Krista is an undergraduate student working on numerical modeling inertial oscillations of sea ice.
University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Evelyn and Marissa are working on computational algorithms for discrete models of sea ice floes.
Yale University
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Megan is an undergraduate student working on examination of sea-ice floe shapes in high-resolution satellite images.
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Madelyn is an undergraduate student studying seasonal and spatial variation of inertial oscillations in drifting sea ice on a pan-Arctic scale.
Former Undergraduate Researchers
Leela Canuelas-Puri(Brown University) |
Melisa Erman(University of Wisconsin - Madison) |
Kangqi Fu(University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
Linkai Ma(Courant Institute, NYU) |
Amy Rhee(Courant Institute, NYU) |
Sean Mackin(Courant Institute, NYU) |
Yuna Liu(University of Washington) |
Camille Viviani(University of Washington) |
Hugh Shields(University of Washington) |