Student Research

Below I list several projects with students I am/have advised or coadvised.

2020-2024  Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Allison Ho, Graduate student. Project: Wave-tide interactions. Alli has sucessfully defended her PhD and is off to JPL for a postdoc fellowship! 

2020-Present   Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Aidan Blaser, Graduate student. Project: Lagrangian drift of surface waves.

2020-Present   Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Luke Colosi, Graduate student. Project: Measurement in a quasi-Lagrangian reference frame.

2022 Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Committee member for Kayli Matsuyoshi, Undergraduate student. Project: Development of new observational technology to improve marine fog predictions.

2020-2023   Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Adriana Formby-Fernandez, Graduate student. Project: Fog occurrence off the Grand Banks

2018-2020  Scripps Institution of Oceanography

James Sinnis, UCSD undergraduate/gap-year student (now a PhD student in physics at the University of Washington). Project: The effects of bandwidth on mass transport and energy dissipation by wave breaking.

2020-2023  Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Teodor Vrecica, postdoctoral researcher. Project: Wave-front interactions.

2020-2021  Scripps Institution of Oceanography

David Llewellyn-Smith, high school student. Project: Particle kinematics near wave breaking: theory and numerics.

2017-2023  Scripps Institution of Oceanography, MPL Summer Internship

Mentored Sidarth Raghunathan (2017). Project: Particle trajectories in deep-water solitons: theory and experiment.

Co-mentored David Vishny (2018). Project: Characterizing the submesoscale front at Kaena Point, Oahu, HI.

Co-mentored Aidan Blaser (2019). Project: Wave breaking statistics.

Mentored Raphael Benamran (2023). Project: Lagrangian drift of water waves.