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Christopher Roach Postdoctoral Fellow[Past Staff] International Pacific Research Center School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Phone: (808) 956-9710 Fax: (808) 956-9425 Email: |
Education
- 2010-2014: PhD in Quantitative Marine Science, University of Tasmania and CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Thesis: Ekman Currents in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Supervisors: Prof. Nathan Bindoff, Dr Helen Phillips and Dr Steve Rintoul - 2008-2009: Bachelor of Antarctic Studies with First Class Honours, University of Tasmania
Thesis: Validation of the SatGEM Velocity Dataset using Argo Data
Supervisors: Prof. Nathan Bindoff and Dr Helen Phillips - 2004-2008: Bachelor of Science, Physics Major, University of Tasmania
Research Interests
- Mesoscale eddy activity
- Isopycnal mixing
- Air-Sea interactions
- Ekman currents and transport
- Southern Ocean dynamics
- Novel uses of Argo Float data
Scientific Work Experience
- Postdoctoral Fellow, IPRC/SOEST, University of Hawaii at Manoa, January 2016-July 2017
- Post-Doctoral Researcher, Florida State University, Examining isopycnal mixing in the Southern Ocean using Argo float trajectories, working with Kevin Speer (professor) and Dhruv Balwada (PhD student), 2014-2016