Education

• 2006 - Ph.D. MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
  Ph.D. Thesis: Overflow and Upper Ocean Interaction. A Mechanism for the Azores Current
• 2003 - M.S. MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
  M.S. Thesis: Eddy dynamics of beta-plumes
• 2000 - B.S. Earth and Planetary Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Research Interests

• Marginal sea overflows
• Open ocean and marginal sea interaction

Professional Experience

• Postdoctoral Fellow, International Pacific Research Center, SOEST, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 2006–present
• Postdoctoral Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts, August 2006–September 2006
• Research Assistant, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts, June 2002–July 2006
• Teaching Assistant, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts, September 2003–December 2003
• Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 2000–May 2002