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HIGHER EDUCATION:
1990-1992 Cornell University, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, 1992
1987-1990 Cornell University, M.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1990
1983-1987, IIT Kanpur, India, B. Tech., Mechanical Engineering Class of ‘87
Academic Appointments:
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, September 2010-Present : Professor, Physics Department; School of Marine Sciences (SMS) University of Massachusetts; Joint Faculty, SMAST.
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2004- August 2010. Associate Professor with Tenure, Physics Department; School of Marine Sciences (SMS) University of Massachusetts; Joint Faculty, SMAST.
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 1999-2004, Assistant Professor, Physics Department; Intercampus Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology; Associate Fellow, SMAST.
University of California, Santa Cruz, April 1998 - June 1999. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Ocean Sciences Department
Other:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution , September 2005 – December 2005. Visiting Investigator, Physical Oceanography Department.
University of California, Santa Cruz , January 1997 - June 1999. Assistant Researcher, Institute for Nonlinear Sciences, Ocean Sciences Board.
University Corporation for Atmopsheric Research (UCAR) Climate System Modeling Fellow (Research Associate), January 1995 - December 1996. This fellowship was tenable at the University of Victoria in association with Chris Garrett, Inez Fung and Andrew Weaver. Only two such fellowships were awarded internationally by UCAR in October 1994, which began in early 1995. The award included salary, benefits and research expenses.
University Corporation for Atmopsheric Research (UCAR) Ocean Modeling Fellow (Postdoctoral Fellow), November 1992 - November 1994, at the Centre for Earth and Ocean Research, University of Victoria. UCAR awarded these international fellowships to only two to four recent doctorates every year, on the basis of proposed research and past performance. The award included salary, benefits and research expenses.
Cornell University, 1987-1992, Mechanical Engineering: Postdoctoral Associate, August 1992 - October 1992; Graduate Research Assistant. Developed spectral codes for Langmuir circulation, for stability analyses and full numerical simulation. Direct simulations implemented on Unix workstations (multiplatform) and supercomputers.
Teaching Assistant. Junior and Senior level courses in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer in 1989-1991. Recipient of Outstanding Teaching Assistant awards for 1990 and 1991. Systems Manager, Operating system upgrades, installation of new software and system maintenance of Unix workstation.
PUBLICATIONS:
Refereed Journal Publications:
Tandon, A. and J. Marshall, Einstein's Tea Leaves and Pressure Systems in the Atmosphere, The Physics Teacher, Vol. 48, 5, p292-295, May 2010.
Mahadevan, A., A. Tandon and R. Ferrari (2010) Rapid changes in mixed layer stratification driven by submesoscale instabilities and winds, Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 115, C03017, doi:10.1029/2008JC005203.
Illari, L., J. Marshall, A. Tandon, S.Lee, P. Bannon, R. Najjarr, G. McKiley, M. Morgan, T. Haine, R. Clark, T. Sikora, J. Mackin, ‘Weather in a Tank’: Exploiting laboratory experiments in the teaching of meteorology, oceanography and climate, Cover story in the November 2009 issue of Bulletin of American Meteorological Society, 2009.
Nagai, T., A. Tandon, H. Yamazaki, and M. J. Doubell (2009), Evidence of enhanced turbulent dissipation in the frontogenetic Kuroshio Front thermocline, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L12609, doi:10.1029/2009GL038832.
Beesley, D., J. Olejarz J., A. Tandon and J. Marshall, A laboratory demonstration of Coriolis effects on wind-driven ocean currents, Oceanography, 21, Issue 2, 72-76, June 2008. (http://www.tos.org/oceanography/issues/issue_archive/21_2.html )
Mahadevan, A., Thomas, L.N., & Tandon, A. Technical comment: Eddy/wind interactions stimulate extraordinary mid-ocean plankton blooms. Science, Technical Comment, Science 320, 448b, DOI: 10.1126/science.1152111
Thomas, L. N., A. Tandon, and A. Mahadevan, Submesoscale processes and dynamics. In Hecht, M. and Hasumi, H., editors, Ocean Modeling in an Eddying Regime, (AGU Monograph), American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, pages 17-38, 2008.
Nagai, T., A. Tandon, N. Gruber, J. C. McWilliams, Biological and physical impacts of ageostrophic frontal circulations driven by confluent flow and vertical mixing, Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 45, Issue 3-4, Pages 229-251, 2008. DOI:10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2007.12.001
Mahadevan, A. and A. Tandon, An Analysis of Mechanisms for Submesoscale Vertical Motion at Ocean Fronts, Ocean Modelling, 14, Issue 3-4 , 2006, Pages 241-256, 2006. doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2006.05.006
Nagai, T., A. Tandon and D. L. Rudnick, Two dimensional Ageostrophic Secondary Circulation at Ocean Fronts due to Vertical Mixing and Large Scale Deformation. JGR-Oceans, 111, C09038, 2006, doi:10.1029/2005JC002964.
Tandon, A. and L. Zhao. Mixed Layer Transformation for the North Atlantic for 1990-2000. Journal of Geophys. Res., Vol. 109, No. C5, C05018 doi 10.1029/2003JC002059, 2004.
Tandon, A. and K. Zahariev. Quantifying the Role of Mixed Layer Entrainment for Water Mass Transformation in the North Atlantic. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 31, 1120-1131, 2001.
Garrett, Chris and Amit Tandon. The Effects on Water Mass Formation of Surface Mixed Layer Time-dependence and Entrainment Fluxes. Deep Sea Research, 44/12, 1991-2006, 1997.
Tandon, Amit and Chris Garrett. On a Recent Parameterization of Mesoscale Eddies. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 26, 406-411, 1996.
Tandon, Amit and Chris Garrett. Geostrophic Adjustment and Restratification of a Mixed Layer with Horizontal Buoyancy Gradients Above a Stratified Layer. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 25, 2229-2241, 1995.
Tandon, Amit and Chris Garrett. Mixed Layer Re-stratification due to a Horizontal Density Gradient. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 24, 1419-1424, 1994.
Tandon, Amit and Sidney Leibovich. Simulations of Three-dimensional Langmuir Circulation in Water of Constant Density, Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, 22,613-22,623, 1995.
Tandon, Amit and Sidney Leibovich. Secondary Instabilities of Langmuir Circulations. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 25, 1206-1217,1995.
Leibovich, Sidney and Amit Tandon. Three-dimensional Langmuir Circulation Instability in a Stratified Layer Journal of Geophysical Research, 98, 16501-16507, 1993.
Cox, Steve M., Sidney Leibovich, Irene M. Moroz and Amit Tandon. Nonlinear dynamics in Langmuir circulations with O(2) symmetry. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 241, 669-704, 1992.
Cox, Steve M., Sidney Leibovich, Irene M. Moroz and Amit Tandon. Hopf bifurcations in Langmuir circulations. Physica D, 59, 226-254, 1992.
Thesis:
Tandon, A. 1992. Ph.D. Thesis, Cornell University, Direct Numerical Simulations and Hydrodynamic Stability Problems in the Upper Oceanic Mixed Layer, 127 pp. (Professor S. Leibovich, Major Advisor)
Edited Volumes:
Physical-Biological Interactions in the Upper Ocean, Edited by Hidekatsu Yamazaki, Daniel Kamykowski and Amit Tandon, Journal of Marine systems, Volume 69, Issues 3-4, Pages 163-338 (February 2008).
Conference Publications
A. Tandon, L. Illari and J. Marshall, Engaging undergraduates in Ocean-Atmosphere experiments: From teaching to research and outreach, 18th Symposium on Education, , Phoenix, Arizona, American Meteorological Society annual meeting proceedings, January 2009. . http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/143910.pdf
A.Tandon, J. Olejarz and B. Rothschild, On the Efficiency of a Linear Non-local Spectral Ecosystem Model due to Nutrient Donor- Nutrient Acceptor Interaction Characteristics, ICES Annual Science Proceedings, F:02, 1-17, September 2008.
Tinkham, D. G. and A. Tandon, Defining the Transition Layer Based on Ocean Mooring Data, American Meteorological Society: 16th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics 2007.
V. Moolani, R. Balasubramanian, L. Shen and A. Tandon, Shape Analysis and Spatio-Temporal Tracking of Mesoscale Eddies in Miami Isopycnic Coordinate Ocean Model, Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, June 14-16, 2006.
Sood, V. John, B., Balasubramanian, R. and A. Tandon, Segmentation and Tracking of Mesoscale Eddies in Numeric Ocean Models, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2005) Genova Italy, Volume 3, 469 - 472, September, 2005.
Balasubramanian, R. , Tandon, A., John, B. and Sood, V. Detecting and Tracking of Mesoscale Oceanic Features in the Miami Isopycnic Coordinate Ocean Model. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 3RD IASTED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, VISUALIZATION IMAGING AND IMAGE PROCESSING, 169-174, 2003.
Balasubramanian, R. , Tandon, A. and Shah, V. Visualization Methods for Heat Transport in Miami Isopycnic Circulation Ocean Model (MICOM). PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH IASTED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND IMAGING (CGIM 2002), 281-286, 2002.
Tandon, A. Mixed Layer Transformation and Mesoscale Processes : In Series or Parallel? From Stirring to Mixing in a Stratified Ocean, Peter Muller and Diane Henderson, eds., 105-112, 2001. (Aha Huliko’a SOEST Special Publication).
Other Publications
Tandon, Amit and Chris Garrett. Water Mass Formation from Thermodynamics: A Framework for Examining Compatibility with Dynamics. International WOCE Newsletter, 28, 1997.
Sheinbaum, Julio, Amit Tandon and Geoffrey Vallis. Pedro Ripa(1946-2001). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 83, 458-459, 2002.
Ehrens, D., R. Balasubramanium, and A. Tandon and J. Schulze, Volume Rendering with Animation of Gulf Stream Currents, Technical Report, Brown University, Department of Computer Science, March 2005
FUNDED RESEARCH AWARDS:
02/2010-01/2013: Interpreting the ocean’s interior from surface data; Boston University (subcontract; NASA); BU PI Amala Mahadevan; Co-Investigator Amit Tandon, UMass Dartmouth; Co-Investigator Rob Scott, UT Austin, $155,538.
2009-2012: On the importance of submesoscale processes for ocean productivity, $328,384, Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation (09/2009-08/2012).
2008-2013: Submesoscale routes to lateral mixing in the ocean, $166,281 for 2008-2011, Principal Investigator, Funded by Office of Naval Research.
(2012-2013 Tentative budget $183,360 Office of Naval Research.)
2008-2009: From Stirring to Mixing: Submesoscale Routes to Lateral Dispersal of Tracers in Upper Ocean. $21,369, Principal Investigator, Funded by Office of Naval Research.
2006-2010: Collaborative Research: The effect of submesoscale processes on property fluxes and distributions in the upper ocean. $177,110, Principal Investigator, Funded by NSF. (no cost extension to 2010)
2006-2010: Subcontract with MIT for NSF proposal: Exploiting laboratory experiments in the teaching of Meteorology, Oceanography and Climate: Phase II, $31,745, Funded by NSF.
2006-2008. Collaborative Project: Interaction of Eddies with Mixed Layers, Principal Investigator, $32,800, Funded by NSF.
2003-2006. Collaborative Project: Interaction of Eddies with Mixed Layers, Principal Investigator, $47,446. NSF.
2002-2005. Diapycnal fluxes in the Southern Ocean, Principal Investigator, NSF Physical Oceanography Program, $173,782.
1999-2003 Collaborative Project: Large scale property fluxes in the North Atlantic, Principal Investigator, NSF Physical Oceanography Program, $140,000.
2001-2002 REU Supplement to Large Scale fluxes, Principal Investigator, NSF Physical Oceanography Program, $20,000.
1997-2001 The Significance of time dependence and entrainment fluxes to water mass formation, Principal Investigator, NSF Physical Oceanography Program, $168,713 ($118,000 at UC Santa Cruz; $50,000 at UMass Dartmouth).
Grant as Senior Investigator:
Acquisition of a Heterogenous Terascale Shared Campus Computing Facility (MRI proposal to National Science Foundation), PI: Robert Fisher, Physics; (Other Co-I’s: Gottlieb, Khanna, Cowles,; SI s: Tandon, Wang, Heryudono, Kim, and Rahbar), $200,000.
Internal and UMass System Grants
2007-2008; 2003-2004. Provost’s Travel grant, UMass Dartmouth
2002-2003; 2000-2001: UMD Program Enhancement Grant for Physics Seminars, funded by the UMD foundation.
2000. Co-investigator (with Professor Bento) on a UMD Innovative Teaching Grant. To implement interactive web-based forecasting exercises and asynchronous, moderated and threaded electronic discussions for the introduction to Weather course.
2001-2002. Establishment of Observational, Analytical and Modeling capabilities for evaluation of coastal marine processes, Joint grant application to the President's Reserve Fund by UMass Boston and UMass Dartmouth campus, Wendell Brown PI, (Tandon- co-PI with many others at UMass Boston and UMass Dartmouth). Awarded jointly to UMass Dartmouth and UMass Boston.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Invited senior scientist participant at the Patullo Conference, May 2010.
Nominated and selected to be Chancellor’s Colloquium Speaker for Spring 2009.
Coach Dartmouth Middle School, Best New “Mathcounts” Team in Southeastern MA, 2005. See www.mathcounts.org Honored by the Dartmouth Town of Dartmouth Select Board for coaching the Dartmouth Destination Imagination Team, 2002.
Certificate of Appreciation from the UMD Committee for Assessment for being co-chair, MST committee, 2002.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) fellowship in Climate Modeling, 1994-1996.
UCAR Fellowship in Ocean Modeling, 1992-1994.
Outstanding TA, Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University, 1990 and 1991.
McMullen Graduate Fellowship, 1987-1988, Cornell University.
Academic Proficiency Award, 1985-1986, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
Fabrication Project Award, 1984-1985, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
Government of India Scholarship, 1984-1987.
Third position in the country in the Indian School Certificate Exam 1982-1983.
Published Abstracts:
D. Kelleher and A.Tandon, Modeling Mixing Using Random Walks in a Sheared Environment, Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference 2010, Commonwealth Honors College, April 2010.
D. Kelleher and A.Tandon, Modeling Mixing Using Random Walks in a Sheared Environment, Sigma-Xi Conference, UMass Dartmouth April 2010.
A. Mahadevan and A. Tandon, Anatomy of a surface filament, Eos Trans. AGU, 91(26), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., Abstract PO51-D03, 2010.
E. Holmes, A. Tandon and A. Mahadevan, Vertical Fluxes at Submesoscales, Eos Trans. AGU, 91(26), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., Abstract IT45A-04, 2010.
A. Tandon and A. Mahadevan, Lateral Mixing by Submesoscale Processes, Eos Trans. AGU, 91(26), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., Abstract IT44-A06, 2010.
S. Majumder, A. Tandon and D. Rudnick, Diurnal and Weekly Transition Layer Variations at the Arabian Sea Mooring, Eos Trans. AGU, 91(26), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., Abstract PO35-E03, 2010.
Nagai T. et al., : Observations of Microscale Turbulent Dissipation and Submesoscale Physical and Biological Structures in the Kuroshio Front Eos Trans. AGU, 91(26), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., Abstract IT44-A03, 2010.
C. Chamberlain, A. Tandon and J. Marshall (MIT) Illustrating Stratified Ekman Upwelling with Weather in a Tank, Eighth Annual American Meteorological Society Annual Conference, 10-11 January 2009, Phoenix, Arizona, American Meteorological Society annual meeting.
A. Tandon. Implementation of tank experiments in a sophomore physics lab and a general education course. Workshop on Teaching Weather and Climate Using Laboratory Experiments, Chicago, June 18-20 2008 (http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~nnn/postworkshop/sum6.html)
A. Mahadevan, C. M. Lee, A. Tandon and E.A.D’Asaro, Mixed Layer Restratification by Submesoscale Processes and the Initiation of the North Atlantic Bloom, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS31A-1243, 2008.
S. Majumder, A. Tandon and D. Rudnick, Ocean transition layer characteristics based ,on the Arabian sea mooring data, Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS51B-1250, 2008.
A.Tandon, J. Olejarz and B. Rothschild, On the Efficiency of a Linear Non-local Spectral Ecosystem Model due to Nutrient Donor- Nutrient Acceptor Interaction Characteristics, Session F: Size is everything! ICES ASC 2008, Halifax, Canada, September 22-27, 2008.
Mahadevan, A. and Tandon, A. SUBMESOSCALE FLUXES AND BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION IN THE UPPER OCEAN. Session 059, p283, Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando 2008.
Tandon, A. and Mahadevan, A. INTERACTION OF FRONTOGENETIC AND WIND-FORCED INSTABILITIES AND THEIR EFFECT ON SUBMESOSCALE TRANSPORT AND MIXING. Session 059, P451, Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando 2008.
David Beesley, J. Olejarz, A. Tandon, and J. Marshall, Ekman driven cyclones/anti-cyclones and wind driven ocean circulation using “Weather in a Tank”, Seventh Annual AMS Student Conference, New Orleans, 2008.
Amit Tandon, L. Illari, J. Marshall, S. Lee, G. McKinley, M. C. Morgan, R. D. Clark, T. W. N. Haine, and K. Mackin, Integrating Weather in a tank: From non-major freshmen to junior meteorology majors and graduate dynamicists. 17th Symposium on Education, 88th Annual AMS Conference, New Orleans, 2008.
Richard D. Clark, S. Clevenstine, L. Illari, J. Marshall, A. Tandon, S. Lee, T. W. N. Haine, G. McKinley, M. Morgan, and K. Mackin, Teaching with tanks: geophysical fluid experiments in undergraduate education. 17th Symposium on Education, 88th Annual AMS Conference, New Orleans, 2008.
Lodovica Illari, J. Marshall, A. Tandon, R. D. Clark, S. Lee, T. W. N. Haine, G. McKinley, M. C. Morgan, and K. Mackin, Experiences in undergraduate teaching with ‘Weather in a tank'. Session 3, Technology and Teaching Tools in the University Classroom, 17th Symposium on Education, 88th Annual AMS Conference, New Orleans, 2008.
David Beesley, Jason Olejarz, Physics Departent, Amit Tandon, Physics Department and the Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences, John Marshall, MIT. Wind driven ocean circulation using “Weather in a Tank”, Sigma-Xi meeting, Dartmouth MA, April 2008.
Some aspects of submesoscale processes in the ocean. Amit Tandon, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA; and A. Mahadevan and L. N. Thomas. American Meteorological Society: 16th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics — 25-29 June, Santa Fe, NM. http://ams.confex.com/ams/16Fluid/techprogram/paper_124485.htm
Amit Tandon and Takeyoshi Nagai and Daniel L. Rudnick, Two dimensional Ageostrophic Secondary Circulation at Ocean Fronts due to Vertical Mixing and Large Scale Deformation, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(36), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS25-O05, 2006
Amala Mahadevan and Amit Tandon, Intense submesoscale vertical motion in the upper ocean and its effect on surface biogeochemical distributions, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(36), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS12H-06, 2006.
Amit Tandon and Brian Rothschild. Bio-Mass Energy Density Cascade Through An Ecosystem, 2005 International Ocean Research Conference, Paris 2005, Sponsored by UNESCO/IOC and The Oceanography Society.
Takeyoshi Nagai and Amit Tandon. Secondary Circulation at Ocean Fronts Due to Vertical Mixing, 15th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, American Meteorological Society, Boston, June 2005.
Takeyoshi Nagai and Amit Tandon. Secondary Circulation near the Azores Front, Sigma-Xi meeting, Dartmouth MA, April 2005.
Amit Tandon and Takeyoshi Nagai. Ageostrophic frontal secondary circulation with confluence and mixing, Eos Trans. AGU, 85(47), American Geophysical Union Fall meeting Suppl., OS12B-02, 2004.
Chris Luebke, George Emmanuel, and Amit Tandon. Rotating Fluids : Hands-on Demonstrations for Graduate and General Education Courses, Eos Trans. AGU, 85(47), American Geophysical Union Fall meeting Suppl., ED31A-0739, 2004.
Brian Rothschild and Amit Tandon. On Modeling the Biomass Energy Density Cascade Through An Ecosystem, Eos Trans. AGU, 85(47), American Geophysical Union Fall meeting Suppl., OS54A-01, 2004.
Amit Tandon and Liuzhi Zhao. Mixed Layer Transformation in the North Atlantic Eos Trans. AGU, 84(52), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., OS22-E02, 2004
Barry Martin and Amit Tandon. Fluid Dynamics of Supercell Thunderstorms, 9th Annual Sigma-Xi Research Exhibition, May 2003.
Ramprasad Balasubramanian, Amit Tandon, Bin John and Vishal Sood. Detecting and Tracking of Mesoscale Oceanic Features in the MICOM, 9th Annual Sigma-Xi Research Exhibition, May 2003.
Amit Tandon and Liuzhi Zhao. Water Mass Transformation Due to Mixed Layer Entrainment in the North Atlantic During WOCE. Eos Trans. AGU, 83(4), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., OS21-R05, 2002.
P. Fortier, A. Gangopadhyay, A.Tandon and V.Shah. A Global Perspective of Chlorophyll from SeaWifs: 1998-2000. Eos Trans. AGU, 83(4), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., OS11Q-03, 2002.
Alex Gigler and Amit Tandon, Physics of the Water Bells, 8th Annual UMass Dartmouth Sigma-Xi Research Exhibition, May 2002. http://www.umassd.edu/org/sigmaxi/abstractmenu.html.
R. Balasubramanium, A. Tandon and V. Shah, Visualization methods for heat transport in Miami Isopycnic Circulation Ocean Model (MICOM), 8th Annual UMass Dartmouth Sigma-Xi Research Exhibition, May 2002. http://www.umassd.edu/org/sigmaxi/abstractmenu.html
Katerina Zarrillo, Amit Tandon and Zhibiao Zhang. Air-sea fluxes and the ocean mixed layer response in the North Atlantic for 1997 using reanalysed data. Sigma-Xi Research Exhibition, May, 2001. http://www.umassd.edu/org/sigmaxi/abstracts/AT173121.html
A. Tandon and K. Zahariev. Water Mass Transformation Due to Mixed Layer Deepening and Due to Mesoscale Induced Upwelling Near Fronts. Eos Trans. AGU, Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., OS32A-15, 2000.
A. Tandon. Quantifying the Role of Mixed Layer Entrainment for Water Mass Transformation. Eos Trans. AGU, OS12L06, 1998.
C. Garrett and A. Tandon. The Effects on Water Mass Formation of Surface Mixed Layer Time-Dependence and Entrainment Fluxes. Eos Trans. AGU, OP22A-18, 1996.
A. Tandon and C. Garrett. On Mesoscale eddy parameterization. Eos Trans. AGU Fall Meeting 1994.
A. Tandon and C. Garrett. Restratification due to Horizontal buoyancy gradient. The Oceanography Society meeting, 1993.
A.Tandon and S. Leibovich. Three dimensional instabilities of Langmuir Circulations. Eos Trans. AGU, Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., 1992.
INVITED AND CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lecture, On the Efficiency and Stability of a Size Dependent Ecosystem Model, August 5th 2010.
Chancellor’s Colloquium, From Stirring Physics to Blooming Biology: Life on a Rotating Planet, April 2009, UMass Dartmouth. (Nominated by colleagues and selected by a committee; Chancellor’s colloquium are after dinner public lectures in intimate settings to a select audience.)
Dept of Estuarine and Ocean Science Seminar, Demonstrating Ocean Dynamics Using a Rotating Tank, October 22nd 2008, UMass Dartmouth.
Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics INVITED Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, October 17th, 2008, Oceanic submesoscale processes.
Physics dept. Seminar, Oct 3rd 2008. New Directions for Physics Majors?
Co-Chair with Raffaele Ferrari, MIT, Amala Mahadevan BU and Leif Thomas, Stanford University, Ocean Sciences Meeting 2008.
Co-Chair with Raf Ferrari MIT, Session OS25-O Role of Eddies in the Upper Ocean III: Posters, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(36), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., 2006.
Two-dimensional Secondary Circulation at Ocean Fronts due to Confluence and Vertical Mixing. Amit Tandon, Eddies and Ocean Circulation meeting, MIT, October 26th and 27th 2005.
Two-dimensional Secondary Circulation at Ocean Fronts due to Confluence and Vertical Mixing. Amit Tandon, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Physical Oceanography seminar, October 18th 2005.
Two-dimensional Secondary Circulation at Ocean Fronts due to Confluence and Vertical Mixing. Amit Tandon, SMAST Seminar, Oct 13th 2005.
Ageostrophic frontal secondary circulation with confluence and mixing. Amit Tandon and Takeyoshi Nagai, Eddy-Mixed layer CPT meeting (sponsored by NSF), Providence RI, November 11th and 12th, 2004.
Coupling the Ageostrophic Circulation Near Ocean Fronts to the Surface Mixed Layer. Amit Tandon and Barry Martin, Theory of eddy-mixed layer interactions, Workshop on Eddy-Mixed Layer Interactions (sponsored by NSF), Boulder CO, December 4th and 5th, 2003.
Water mass Transformation in the North Atlantic (1990-2000). Amit Tandon and Liuzhi Zhao. WOCE and Beyond, November 2002, San Antonio, TX. Final conference of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE).
Water mass transformation due to mixed layer entrainment. Amit Tandon, Coastal Ocean Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Seminar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, August, 2002.
Physics of the Water Bells by Alex Gigler and Amit Tandon, at the 8th Annual UMass Dartmouth Sigma-Xi Research Exhibition, May 2002.
Visualization methods for heat transport in Miami Isopycnic Circulation Ocean Model (MICOM) by R. Balasubramanium, A. Tandon and V. Shah at the 8th Annual UMass Dartmouth Sigma-Xi Research Exhibition, May 2002.
Langmuir Circulations. A. Tandon in the Bento-Ukleja Fest: Symposium on Physics, UMass Dartmouth Physics Department, April 26, 2002.
Millimeters affecting Megameters? Two mixing processes in the upper ocean. Amit Tandon. College of Engineering Seminar March 2002.
You too can be a weather forecaster! By A.Tandon and R. Bento, Brown Bag Seminar, UMass Dartmouth, October, 2001.
Invited attendee at the Gordon Research Conference on Coastal Ocean Circulation, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH, 10-15 June 2001. All expenses were paid by sponsoring agencies (ONR, NOAA, MMS, USGS and NSF).
Air-sea fluxes and the ocean mixed layer response in the North Atlantic for 1997 using reanalysed data. Katerina Zarrillo, Amit Tandon and Zhibiao Zhang. Sigma-Xi poster presentation, May 1-2, 2001.
Invited Lecture at the ONR sponsored workshop on “Stirring and Mixing in the Stratified Ocean” at University of Hawaii at Manoa. Amit Tandon, January 2001.
Invited attendee of an NSF sponsored workshop on Frontiers of Mathematics in Geosciences, Minneapolis, MN, March 5-7, 2001.
Pedagogy using the web for Introductory science courses. NERCOMP annual meeting, Amit Tandon and Robert Bento, Worcester MA 2001.
Visualization Methods for Heat Transport in Miami Isopycnic Circulation Ocean Model (MICOM), Ramprasad Balasubramanium, Amit Tandon and Vishal Shah, IEEE International conference in Computer Vision and Image processing, Hawaii, December 2001.
Matching dynamics and thermodynamics for water mass formation: The role of mixing The oceanography seminar at the Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Feb. 2000.
Chair, session on “Ocean Fronts: Patterns, structures and processes” at the 2000 Ocean sciences meeting January 24-28, San Antonio TX. This international conference is jointly organized by the American Geophysical Union and the American Society for Limnology and Oceanography.
The Story of Hurricane Floyd at the UMass Instructional Technology Conference 2000, Sturbridge MA.
The Einstein of Physical Oceanography : Henry Stommel Amit Tandon, Physics department Seminar, UMD, May 2000.
A review of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment, Michael Desmarais and Amit Tandon, Sixth Sigma-Xi scientific research exhibit, UMD, May 2000
The World Ocean Circulation Experiment, Amit Tandon and Michael Desmarais, High School Marine Science Symposium, UMass Dartmouth 2000.
The role of mixed layer entrainment in water mass formation. Amit Tandon, The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Summer School 1999, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA
Water mass formation due to mixed layer entrainment at “Fluid Mechanics and the Environment: Dynamical Approaches” held at Cornell University, Ithaca NY. August 1999.
Inclusion of mesoscale eddies in climate modeling, CMAST Seminar, UMass Dartmouth, Sept. 1999
Teaching Experience:
Fall 2009, PHY 554/MNE 504/MAR 554 Physics of Fluids (10 students).
Fall 2008-Spring 2009, PHY 183H, Intro to Global Climate Change (Honors class; 17 students), PHY 554/MAR 554 Physics of Fluids (7 students), PHY 557/MAR 557 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (5 students), PHY 234 Intermediate Mathematical Physics (15 students), Team taught SUS 201 Sustainability Topics: The Coastal Zone (9 lectures, 25 students), Team taught PHY 421 Advanced Physics Lab (Motions in rotating reference frame).
Fall 2007-Spring2008, PHY 182, Introduction to the Weather (61 students), PHY 111 Physics for Science and Engineering I (33 students; 5 contact hrs/week), PHY 554 Physics of Fluids (6 students), and advising two undergraduate students in research PHY 480, and a graduate student thesis PHY 690.
Fall 2006-Spring 2007, PHY 182, Introduction to the Weather (43 students), PHY 554, Physics of Fluids (6 students); PHY 234, Intermediate Mathematical Physics (6 students), PHY 300 Physics Seminar and Rotating Table experiments (12 students).
Fall 2005 (Sabbatical Semester); Spring 2006, PHY 234-01 Intermediate Mathematical Physics (12 students), PHY 510 Geophysical Fluid Mechanics. Rotating table experiments for PHY 510 and for Earth Day 2006.
Fall 2004-Spring 2005 PHY 182 Introduction to the Weather (COMPASS Learning Communities section-01, 28 students and regular section –02, 45 students), PHY 510 Special Topics in Fluid Mechanics, 5 students. PHY 234-01 Intermediate Mathematical Physics (7 students), and PHY 196-01 (1 student, Directed study of thermodynamics topics from PHY 115)
Fall 2003-Spring 2004, PHY 182 Introduction to the Weather, 36 students; PHY 115 Introduction to Classical Physics (Waves, Optics and thermodynamics), 15 students; PHY 234 Mathematical Physics, 8 students; Project guide for MNE 497, MNE 498: Design Project-I and II; MAR 599 Marine Turbulence (jointly with SMAST primary faculty).
Fall 2002-Spring 2003, Instructor, PHY 182 Introduction to the Weather, 56 students; PHY 113 Recitation: Classical Physics I, 20 students; Instructor PHY 182 Introduction to the Weather, 35 students; PHY 510 Special Topics in Fluid Mechanics, 5 students.
Fall2001-Spring 2002, PHY 111-IMPULSE Instructor (5 contact hours and 1 hour weekly instructor coordination meetings), Physics for Science and Engineering-I, 37 students; Discussion section - PHY 162 Science, Technology and Society-II: The Environment, 34 students, Instructor, PHY 182 Introduction to the Weather, 43 students; PHY 515. Physics of Ocean Boundary Layers, 7 students (2 audits).
Fall 2000-Spring 2001, Instructor, PHY 315 Fluid Dynamics Supplement, 5 students; PHY 113 Classical Physics-I Lab, 16 students (also Lab training 2 hours a week). Instructor, PHY 182 Introduction to the Weather, 30 students; Main instructor and recitation instructor PHY 115 Introduction to Classical Physics (Waves, Optics and thermodynamics), 8 students.
Fall 1999-Spring 2000, Instructor, PHY 510 Special Topics in Physics-Fluid Mechanics, 3 students; PHY 301 Undergraduate Seminar in Fluid Mechanics, 5 students; PHY 115 Introduction to Classical Physics (Waves, Optics and thermodynamics), 6 students; PHY 182 Introduction to the Weather, 35 students.
Teaching Innovations
Freshman and Sophomore courses:
(i) WIDgets in freshmen courses, where each student participates by contributing one critical thinking question every week on the next chapter (PHY 183-H, PHY 182, PHY 111, PHY 115).
(ii) Introduction of most recent weather maps on color slides in every lecture, Experimental demonstrations using Weather in a Tank (PHY 182, PHY 183-H)
(iii) Setting up of the class website, and e-mail listserv for student-student interaction and student-faculty interaction (PHY 182 and PHY 111), web-based forecasting exercises (PHY 182).
(iv) Severe weather events (e.g. Hurricane Katrina, Floyd) are discussed via in-class discussions and in e-mail forum. These have evolved into posters and a computer animation that are used by the department to-date for Open House and Discovery day activities. The homeworks consist of critical thinking questions answered via e-mail.
(v) Participant in the Freshmen Success Initiative – Introduced students to “Be Here Now!” and “Muscle Reading” (PHY 182).
(vi) All lectures for the weather course into powerpoint modules with graphics; A set of group activities for each module. Peer instruction sets and Group activities also constructed for PHY 111.
Teaching Innovations in junior and higher level courses:
(i) Double blind peer-reviews for PHY 115 Classical Physics course.
(ii) Efficient resource use for PHY 315 Fluid Mechanics Supplement.
(iii) Co listing of PHY 554 with MAR and MNE.
NEW COURSES INTRODUCED
PHY 183 Introduction to Global Climate Change (Gen Ed. Categories, S, G).
PHY 315 Fluid Mechanics Supplement.
PHY 515 Physics of Ocean Boundary Layers
PHY 554 Physics of Fluids (now co-listed with MNE and MAR course)
PHY 557 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Advising
POST-DOCTORAL SCHOLARS SUPPORTED/ADVISED
Dr. Liuzhi Zhao (October 2001-May 2002)
(Now Research Scientist at Dept. of Fisheries Oceanography, UMass)
Dr. Jorge Mesias (October 2002-September 2003)
(Now back in Chile)
Dr. Takeyoshi Nagai (March 2004-August 2005)
(Now, Assistant Professor, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology)
GRADUATE STUDENTS SUPPORTED/ADVISED:
Ms. Xianquin Yao, (MS thesis student, Spring 2010-Present)
Mr. Sonaljit Mukherjee (PhD student, Fall 2009-Present)
Mr. Sudip Majumder (PhD student, Fall 2008-Present)
Mr. Eric Holmes (MS Thesis student, Fall 2008-August 2010)
Mr. Sudip Majumdar (MS Thesis student, January 2007-August 2008)
Ms. Danielle Tinkham (MS Thesis, Physics, September 2005-December 2007)
Mr. Krishna Aryal (MS Program, Physics, September 2006-September 2007)
Mr. Barry Martin (MS Program, Physics, January 2003-February 2004)
Mr. Tinu Thomas (MS Program, Computer and Info Science, September 2003-2005)
Mr. G. Srinivas (MS Program, Computer and Info Science, September 2002-May 2003)
Mr. Alex Gigler (MS Program, Physics, September 2001-June 2002)
Mr. Ao Yi (MS Program, Physics, September 2001-May 2002)
Mr. Zhibiao Zhang (MS Program, Physics, September 2000-May 2002)
Mr. Michael Desmarais (MS Program, Physics, September 1999-May 2000)
GRADUATE STUDENTS ADVISED:
Dr. Zhankun Wang, (SMAST, PhD student committee member)
Ms. Ann Marie Brunner, (SMAST, PhD student committee member)
Dr. Zhigang Lai, (SMAST, PhD student committee member)
Dr. Fei Chen, (SMAST, PhD student committee member)
Mr. Marcos Sastre (SMAST, PhD student committee member)
Co-Advised the following students with Dr. Ramparasad Bala from CIS.
Mr. David Ehrens (MS Program CIS, September 2003-June 2004)
Ms. Veena Moolani (MS Program CIS, Septmber 2005-June 2006)
Mr. Bin John (MS Program, CIS, September 2002-Jan 2006)
Mr. Vishal Sood (MS Program, CIS, September 2002-June 2004t)
Mr. Ajay Saini (MS Program, CIS, September 2002-June 2004)
Mr. Vishal Shah (MS Program, CIS, September 2001-May 2002)
Mr. Jerry Lee (MS Program, CIS, September 2000-September 2001)
Mr. Swapnil Chaudhari
Mr. Shiji Joseph.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS SUPPORTED/ADVISED with NSF support
Mr. Carter Chamberlain (BS, Physics 2010)
Mr. Jason Olejarz (BS, Physics 2008)
Mr. David Beesley (BS, Physics 2008)
Ms. Sarah Couillard, (BS, Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2001)
Mr. Derek Chace, (BS, Physics, Summer 2001)
Mr. Kareem El-Wakil, (BS, Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2001)
Ms. Katerina Zarrillo (Special Student at UMD, currently undergraduate at Stanford University)
MS/PhD Thesis Committee service for the following graduate students:
Ms. Ann Marie E.G. Brunner (PhD candidate SMAST/IGSMST, Spring 2008-Present; thesis advisor DrMiles Sundermeyer)
Dr. Zhankun Wang (PhD SMAST/IGSMST, Spring 2006-Fall’09; thesis advisor Dr. Louis Goodman)
Dr. Zhigang Lai (PhD candidate SMAST/IGSMST, Spring 2006-Fall’09; thesis advisor Dr. Changsheng Chen)
Dr. Fei Chen (PhD candidate SMAST/IGSMST, Fall 2004-Fall’09, as guidance committee member and as thesis committee member; thesis advisor Dr. Daniel MacDonald)
Mr. Chris Luebke (MS Candidate Fall 2004-present SMAST/UMass Intercampus Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology; thesis advisor Dr. Lou Goodman)
Ms. Erin Twomey (MS Candidate Physics, Fall 2003-May 2005; thesis advisor Dr. Jim Bisagni)
Mr. Matthew Upton (MS Candidate Physics, Fall 2001-May 2003; thesis advisor Dr. Jim Bisagni)
Mr. Saurabh Malhotra (MS EE Fall 2002-May 2004; thesis advisor Dr. Dayalan Kasilingam, ECE department)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Associate Editor, Limnology, 2005-Present (http://www.springer.com/life+sci/ecology/journal/10201?detailsPage=editorialBoard)
Editorial board for the Springer Journal Limnology published by the Springer-Verlag in association with the Japanese Society of Limnology.
Journal Reviewer:
Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans
Physics Today
Journal of Physical Oceanography
Deep Sea Research
Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Journal of Marine Research
Ocean Modeling
IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
Limnology
Current Science (India)
Proposal Reviewer:
National Science Foundation-Physical Oceanography
National Science Foundation-Atmospheric Sciences
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NOW, Dutch Research Council)
Natural Environment Research Council, UK
U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation
National Ocean Partnership program (NOPP)
Panel Reviewer:
National Science Foundation Physical Oceanography Panel, May 1998
National Science Foundation Physical Oceanography Panel, May 2002
National Science Foundation Physical Oceanography Panel, November 2005
National Ocean Partnership Program, Panel Reviuewer June 2005
Professional Activity:
- Convenor/Organizer Biological-Physical Interactions at Submesoscales, February 2010, Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland Oregon. Interdisciplinary session Co-sponsored by Physical, Chemical and Biological Oceanography.
- Convenor, Physical-Biological Interactions in the Upper Ocean, Fall 2004 AGU Meeting
- Chair, Upper ocean session, Ocean Sciences Meeting, 2004.
- Chair, Multiple sessions, Fall 2004 AGU meeting
- One of the organizers, Symposium for the 65th birthday of Professor Chris Garrett
- Chair, Multiple sessions, Ocean Sciences Meeting 2008
- Organizer, Session on Eddies, Fronts and Sub-Mesoscale Processes In The Upper Ocean, Ocean Sciences Meeting, March 2008
- Provided input to “Physics Today” APS magazine editors on recent results in Oceanography.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
a) Service to the Department
- UMass Physics Industrial Advisory Board (Chair, AY08-Present)
- UMass Physics Department Graduate Curriculum Committee (AY99-Present)
- UMass Physics Department Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (Since 1999,Chair AY01-02, AY02-03)
- UMass Physics Department Indirect Cost Committee
- UMass Physics Computational Physics Committee
- UMass Physics Search and Screen Committee (3 tenure track and 3 FTVL hires)
- Chair PTL Search Committee for Fall 2008.
- Member Physics Finance committee (Chair, Finance Committee Fall 2006; Fall 2007),
- Member, Physics Faculty Evaluation Committee,
- Member, Physics Space Committee.
- Acting Chair, Physics for brief period in May’09
- Acting FEC chair for Annual evaluations 2009 (filled in chair’s role due to emergency)
- Miscellaneous roles e.g. Many letters of recommendations for students and postdocs; MS/PhD Recruitment (Physics and Marine Science program) via email and direct contact; written feedbacks to the Dean Engineering and SMAST on many issues as needed.
b) Service to the College
- Chair, College of Engineering Research Seed grants panel (AY 06-07); Member (2004-2007) Reviewed and discussed internal proposals.
- Member, College of Engineering Academic council (AY 07-08, 08-09); Organized a CAC meeting to elect new chair for the CAC for 08-09. Reviewed multiple tenure, PMYR and renewal cases and attended multiple meetings to discuss them.
- Participated in the CoE Open House (all AY); Participated in the CoE Discovery Days (all AY)
- Participant in the forum on engineering education with Domenico Grasso, Dean of Engineering at the University of Vermont, May 2006.
- Meeting Dr. Drumheller from ONR during his visit to College of Engineering, February 2006.
- Provided Peer evaluation by class visitation for Prof. Sankha Bhowmick, Mechanical Engineering.
- Invited lecture on November 01, and November 03, 2005 to Mechanical Engineering seniors in Prof. Sankha Bhowmick's Energy conversions class onTidal Power.
- Elected, Served on search and screen committee for the Dean, College of Engineering (AY 05-06)
- UMass College of Engineering Research Task Force (AY 04-06)
- UMass College of Engineering Computer Support Task Force (AY 03-05)
c) Service to the University
- Host, Afternoon session on “Stirring Physics creates Blooming Biology” for Tsinghua students visiting SMAST, July 23rd, 2009.
- Member, Chancellor’s Advisory Group on School of Education Planning (SEPPCE): To plan the future of a graduate program in education at UMass Dartmouth. Member, STEM subcommittee of Chancellor’s Education Committee. Tandon provided written and oral feedback to this committee multiple times during Spring 2008, about structuring of the STEM department within the proposed School of education
- Member of the University Appellate Board; worked with the Director of Student Conduct and Dispute Resolution in the division of Student Affairs (Monique Sadarangani) on multiple student appeal cases. Reviewed each appeal case and provided feedback (AY 08-10)
- Member, campus sustainability minor initiative (AY 06-present). Encouraged and accompanied students to multiple evening screenings and panel discussions, including one on the “Global Warming Swindle” featuring Prof. Carl Wunsch who was both featured in the film, and a campus guest.
- Faculty member, Intercampus Graduate School in Marine Science, hereafter referred to as SMS; Joint Faculty member DEOS/SMAST.; Participated in some DEOS/SMAST faculty meetings.; Participated in the SMS/SMAST recruiting efforts for PhD students, by contacting mutiple students and encouraging them to apply to SMAST (AY 99-present)
- Provided details and publications for “Beyond the wall” (AY08-present)
- Input for the Honors Program Faculty webpages (including my own) (AY09).
- Input on the Sustainability program website (including my program description and how it fits in).
- Played Host to Professors from MIT (John Marshall and Lodovica Illari) in Fall 2008 and Spring 2009; Host to Dr. Jack Whitehead, AMS fellow and now Scientist Emeritus WHOI during Fall 2008 and Spring 2009. Also hosted Dr. Whitehead for his physics seminar day visit in Spring 2009.
- Reviewed and signed the new intellectual property policy for principal investigators at UMass Dartmouth (AY08-09)
- Additional training for PI responsibilities: SUMMIT, Attended the Certifying Effort workshop, Re-allocation on pro-cards (AY 08-09)
- Provided feedback to Dean Muller-Karger so that Provost Garro could present bulleted items to the Board of Trustees on research being conducted by the SMAST affiliated faculty (AY08-09)
- Faculty Senate Brown Bag Lecturer on Global Warming, Spring 2007
- Faculty Evaluation Committee, SMAST (AY 05-06).
- Member, Campus sustainability minor initiative (since 2006); helped develop the SUS minor and curriculum.
- UMass, Math Science and Technology Assessment Gen. Ed. Committee, (Chair AY 03-04, Co-chair AY02-03, Co-chair AY01-02)
- UMass General Education Committee (AY 01-02, 02-03, 06-07,07-08)
- UMass Sabbatical Leave Committee (AY 03-06)
· UMass Instructional Computing Initiative Work group: Member of Hardware/Software standards and licensing Working Group (AY 03-04)
- Participant, Faculty Colloquium Interviews (Campus wide study by Dr. Christina Biron, Colloquium Workgroup, CTL)
- UMass, Transition Faculty Member, School for Marine Sciences and Technology
- UMass, Small Grants for Program Enhancement Committee
- Faculty Advisor, Indian Students Association, 2005-2007.
- Attendeee, Symposium on Assessing Student Learning at UMass Shrewsbury facility.
- Helped network Professor Carlos Benavides from Language department to Computer Science faculty for a lexical/sentence decision task experiment; Professor Adam Sulkowski from College of Business with several businesses in India for his research.
- Faculty Senate Judicial Committee 2004-2007.
- UMass, Center for Indic Studies member
- UMass SMAST Curriculum Committee Member
- UMass SMAST Coordinating Council Member
- Attendee and participant at various CTL workshops on Student Teaching and Learning (College Now Workshops, Colloquium on Learning Communities, Freshman Success Initiative etc.)
- Organizer of multiple music concerts for the Centre for Indic studies at UMass Dartmouth.
PUBLIC SERVICE
- Presentation on Fluid Behavior in the Ocean and Atmosphere Amit Tandon with Lodovica Illari (MIT), Amala Mahadevan (BU) on Climate Day at Museum of Science, Boston: Oct.11th, 2009
- Cars and Carbon, WBSM 1420 AM radio talk show with host “All About Cars” Ralph Medeiros August 8th, 2009.
- Contributor to planning and execution at the New Bedford Working Waterfront festival, September 2009. Demonstrations on September 26th 2009 with the live rotating tank setup. Tandon and students Debbie Schwartz, Ann-Marie Brunner, Gustavo Marques and Sonaljit Majumder presented many concepts to the members of the general public.
- New Bedford Waterfront Festival 2008 : Demonstrations on two separate days for more than six hours during the New Bedford Working Waterfront festival. Tandon and student Carter Chamberlain demonstrated many concepts about atmosphere and ocean flows using the rotating tank which they setup “live” at the Waterfront. Many members of the public (including Provost Garro and his family) attended the event and enjoyed the experiments.
- Volunteer, Autumnfest, Fall 2008, Friends Academy Dartmouth MA.
- Fronts and the Jet Stream, A presentation using multiple experimental demonstrations to 5th grade (two sections), Friends Academy, January 2009.
- Accompanied two professors from MIT to the Ocean Explorium (twice) to initiate stronger contacts between academia and the Ocean Explorium in New Bedford.
- Suggested speakers to Mark Smith, Executive Director at Ocean Explorium for Ocean Voice speakers. Arranged for Dr. Amala Mahadevan to give a talk at the Ocean Voice series during the Women in Science month at the Explorium.
- Communicated with Heeth Grantham of the Lone Wolf Documentary Group regarding an oceanography film for The History Channel and the Weather in the Tank project.
- Acted as a Technical Volunteer and Judge for the Massachusetts Chapter Spelling Bee competition organized by the North South Foundation, May 2009.
- Use of “3-d” geographic maps and bought 3-d glasses with own indirect funds to be used for Open House, School Visits and outreach to university and greater community
- Provided free consulting to UMass Dartmouth ECE alumni, Mr. Farell Plank, Program Manager, NP Medical, Inc. via meetings and email (Fall 2007).
- Public Lecture: March 15th, 2006, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm at the Marion Music Hall in Marion on “A scientific perspective on the issues of global warming and food”. Included as a series of lectures and panel discussions entitled: “Global Warming: What Can I Do?” organized by The Marion Institute. Panelist as well as the opening speaker for this public event.
- 2006-2008: Town of Dartmouth School Building & Renovation Committee, appointed by the Town Moderator.
- 2005-2008: Elected Town meeting member of Dartmouth MA.
- September 2004-2006: Team coach for the MATHCOUNTS team from the Dartmouth Middle School, Dartmouth MA. This involves weekly after school teaching and coaching sessions every week with talented middle school students who are interested in Mathematics. The team competes in local, regional and statewide championships. State winners proceed to national finals, who meet the President at the White House. See www.mathcounts.org .
- September 2001-March 2002: Team coach for the Destination Imagination team from Gidley Elementary School in Dartmouth MA. Awarded a special recognition award by the judges in the regional competition held at Carver High School in March 2002. Recognized in form of an official citation by Town of Dartmouth Select Board in Summer 2002.
- September 2002-2005: Team Appraiser for Destination Imagination. Participant in the Appraiser workshop at Grafton High School in Feb 2003.
- August 2001: Adult Chorus and lead singer on one of the numbers, " Disney Under the Stars", a free entertainment event, open to public, August 24 and 25th 2001, UMD Theatre company
- March 2001. High School Marine Sciences Symposium, “Oceans in Motion”, Addressed three hourly sessions to High School students from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
- March 2000. High School Marine Sciences Symposium, “The World Ocean Circulation Experiment”, Addressed three hourly sessions to High School students from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
- May 2000: Presented two lecture-demonstrations in Mrs. Elizabeth Jacobsen’s science classes in the middle school with weather programs, focusing my activities on Tornadoes.
- Fall 1999: Meeting with James Hamos from U Mass President’s office on Higher Education Groups Review and discussed the revisions of the Science/Technology and Engineering frameworks for Massachusetts.
- Fall 1999: Commented on the Commonwealth of Massachusetts's revised science standards on www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/scitech99/toc.html, with Prof. John Russell (Physics, Emeritus, and Center for Teaching and Learning) and also forwarded a related AGU alert e-mail to the faculty and teaching community.
Membership in Professional Societies
American Geophysical Union, 1992-Present;
American Meteorological Society, 1992-Present;
The Oceanography Society, 1992-Present
Sigma Xi, 1999-2007
American Association of Physics Teachers 2002-Present