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Benjamin Jaimes Ph.D. Candidate, Physical Oceanography My scientific interest includes hurricane-ocean interactions, eddy-mean flow interaction in the ocean, the dynamics of the enigmatic Gulf of Mexico's Loop Current, including the role of the Loop Current eddies in maintaining the western boundary current along the Mexican and Texas shelves. Just one month after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans, I had the opportunity to start to work with Prof. Lynn K. Shay in a project aimed to understand the role of the thermal structure of the upper ocean during hurricane intensity fluctuations over the Loop Current system. Now, as part of my dissertation I am using in situ and satellite-based measurements collected in the Gulf of Mexico during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, together with an isopycnic ocean model to investigate mixed layer entrainment in mesoscale oceanic eddies during hurricane passage. |
Contact: University of Miami, RSMAS/MPO |
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