Presentations

Talks available online: 

Pizzo, N.E. 2022, Particle description of the interaction between wave packets and point vortices. Invited Talk at Ibaraki University (Japan) which may be seen here. 

Pizzo, N.E. 2021, Modulation of surface gravity waves by internal waves, American Meteorological Society  Annual Meting.  https://youtu.be/QZi4rcfAyUE

Pizzo, N.E. 2018, Breaking Waves & Mass Transport. Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics Program:  Planetary Boundary Layers in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Ice on Earth and Moons,  Santa Barbara, USA. https://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/blayers18/pizzo/

Selected Talks: 

Pizzo, N.E. 2024, The wave momentum myth. WISE 2024, Corsica, France. 

Pizzo, N.E. 2024, The Lagrangian mean flow of surface gravity waves. Invited Talk at the University of Connecticut.

Pizzo, N.E. 2023, The Lagrangian mean flow of surface gravity waves. Conference on Nonlinear Waves, Tokyo, Japan. 

Pizzo, N.E. 2023, Planetary waves. UC Berkeley Physics Department. 

Pizzo, N.E. 2022, Waves and currents at the air-sea interface. Invited Talk at the University of Rhode Island.

Pizzo, N.E. 2022, Waves and currents at the air-sea interface. Invited Talk at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Pizzo, N.E. 2022, Particle description of the interaction between wave packets and point vortices. Invited Talk at Ibaraki University (Japan) which may be seen here. 

Pizzo, N.E. 2021, Observational, numerical, and theoretical studies of air-sea boundary layer processes. Invited Talk at Texas A&M University.

 Pizzo, N.E. 2021, Mass transport by non-breaking and breaking deep-water surface gravity waves. Invited Talk at Oxford University.

Pizzo, N.E. 2020, Observational, numerical, and theoretical studies of current generation at the air-sea interface Invited Talk at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD. Cancelled due to COVID-19.

Pizzo, N.E. 2019, Lagrangian transport by deep-water breaking waves. 26th Waves in Shallow Water Environment Meeting, Sapporo, Japan.  

 Pizzo, N.E. 2019, Nonlinear and breaking deep-water surface gravity waves. Invited Talk in BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, University of Cambridge, England. 

Pizzo, N.E. 2018, A Lagrangian for water waves with application to the stability of Stokes waves. SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, Anaheim, California.

 Pizzo, N.E. 2018, Lagrangian transport by breaking waves. B’Waves: A workshop focused on wave breaking in oceanic and coastal waters Marseilles, France.

 Pizzo, N.E. 2018, Breaking Waves & Mass Transport. Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics Program:  Planetary Boundary Layers in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Ice on Earth and Moons, Santa Barbara, USA.

 Pizzo, N.E. 2017, Surfing surface gravity waves. American Physical Society (APS) Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) Meeting, Denver, USA

 Pizzo, N.E. 2017, Properties of nonlinear and breaking deep-water surface gravity waves. Invited Talk in Department of Marine Science. University of Otago, Otago, New Zealand. 

 Pizzo, N.E. 2017, Surfing surface gravity waves and Lagrangian transport by breaking. IUTAM Wind Waves Conference,, University College London, England. 

 Pizzo, N.E. 2017, Surfing surface gravity waves. 24th Waves in Shallow Water Environment Meeting, Victoria, Canada.  

 Pizzo, N.E. 2017, Properties of nonlinear and breaking deep-water surface gravity waves. Invited Talk in Department of Mechanical Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

 Pizzo, N.E., Deike, L, and W.K. Melville, 2016, Current generation by deep-water  breaking waves. APS DFD Meeting, Portland, USA.

 Pizzo, N.E. and W.K. Melville, 2016, Wave modulation: the geometry, kinematics, and dynamics of focusing deep-water wave packets. International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Montreal, Canada.

 Pizzo, N.E., Deike, L, and W.K. Melville, 2016, Current generation by deep-water breaking waves. AGU OSM Meeting, New Orleans, USA 

 Pizzo, N.E. and W.K. Melville, 2015, Wave modulation: the geometry, kinematics, and dynamics of focusing deep-water wave packets. APS DFD Meeting, Boston, USA 

 Pizzo, N.E. and W.K. Melville, 2015, Scaling laws for deep-water breaking waves. 7th International symposium on gas transfer at water surfaces, Seattle, USA

 Pizzo, N.E. and W.K. Melville, 2014. Vortex generation by deep-water breaking waves. AGU Ocean Sciences, Honolulu, USA

 Pizzo, N.E. and W.K. Melville, 2014, The geometry, kinematics, and dynamics of focusing deep-water wave packets. APS DFD Meeting, San Francisco, USA 

 Pizzo, N.E. and W.K. Melville, 2013. Vortex generation by deep-water breaking waves. American Mathematical Society Joint Mathematics Meeting. San Diego, USA

 Pizzo, N.E. and W.K. Melville, 2012. Vortex generation by deep-water breaking waves. International Meeting of Students in Physical Oceanography. San Diego, USA