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 – November 2009
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