Hartmut Peters
RSMAS/MPO
University of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 33149
Telephone: 305.421.4032
hpeters@rsmas.miami.edu

Dr. Peters' interests are in the fields of small-scale processes in oceans and costal waters, coastal and estuarine circulation. He is specializing in in-situ observations of turbulent mixing. The aim of his work is to understand the role of small-scale mixing within the larger-scale circulation and in the physical, chemical and biological environment. This includes the coupling of small-scale motions (turbulence), finescale motions (internal waves), and large-scale currents. It also includes investigating the realism of turbulence submodels (closure models) used in numerical circulation models. His observational tools include a microstructure profiler, shipboard and moored acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCP), the latter sometimes used to directly measure the Reynolds stress, lowered ADCPs, and various CTDs. Recent work has focussed on processes in estuaries and on the continental shelf including the exchange between marginal seas and the open ocean.