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NEOCO
graduate students are involved in all aspects of the program - at
both the site and network level. Currently, we fund three graduate
students through NEOCO.
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Pfieffer-Hoyt |
| Drew
Lucas |
| Youngsul
Jeong |
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| Drew
Lucas |
| Drew
Lucas, a graduate student at UC San Diego, will be working under
the guidance of John Largier at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Drew's project focuses on the impact of internal waves in nearshore
communities and ecosystems. He is researching environmental
modulations of internal wave fields by investigating 1) temporal
variations in internal wave characteristics (e.g. forced by
tides, upwelling effects, ambient wind conditions and mixing,
and propagating coastal trapped waves); and 2) spatial variations
in internal wave characteristics (e.g. forced by ambient current
and stratification conditions or refraction and diffraction
due to interaction with bathymetry and coastal morphology).
High-resolution NEOCO data from Scripps Pier will be used to
examine the high-frequency covariation of temperature with turbidity
and fluoresence to examine pumping and transport forced by internal
waves. NEOCO temperature from Scripps Pier will also be compared
with concurrent installations in the Pt. Loma and La Jolla kelp
beds to determine what alongshore coherence exists in the high-frequency
temperature signal and across what alongshore scale may NEOCO
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