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Cal Maritime鈥檚 Oceanography degree program launches this fall, but the study of Oceanography and Marine Science at Cal Maritime dates back more than two decades. And researchers from Cal Maritime are already taking part in important work.
Alejandro Cifuentes-Lorenzen, assistant professor of Oceanography, Kate Randolph, assistant research scientist, and Cadet Martin Shimada traveled to University of Connecticut and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute鈥檚 Martha鈥檚 Vineyard Coastal Observatory to set up a comprehensive field campaign to fulfill objectives on two separate but collaborative projects funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA this fall.
Cifuentes-Lorenzen鈥檚 research includes investigating the role of waves in the transfer of momentum and kinetic energy across the air-sea interface, with a particular focus on wave-driven turbulence. The experiment, a multi-institution, NSF-funded effort, is designed to explore the transfer of energy from the atmo-sphere to the sea, mediated by waves.
The NSF project provides context for the NASA funded work Randolph is pursuing. She has deployed a system of radiometers and a float with optical and acoustic instrumentation to explore the relationship between breaking waves, bubble plumes, turbulence, and hyperspectral reflectance (ocean color).
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