Research Overview

Rosenstiel School’s research excels in the following areas:

1. Climate and the environment: Ecological, biogeochemical and societal imprints on the environment in a changing climate.

2. Sustainable coastal ecosystem: Physical and biological interactions at the interface between terrestrial and oceanic systems under natural and anthropogenic influences.

3. Sustainable fisheries and aquaculture: Advanced aquaculture technology and fisheries management that shape the policies for the sustainability of ocean’s living resources.

4. Oceans and human health: Integrated biomedical and oceanographic sciences for the safety of human and animal activity threatened by contamination and toxins in seafood supply and coastal marine waters.

5. Severe weather observations and prediction: New observational technologies and advanced air-wave-sea-land coupled numerical models to improve the prediction of the track and intensity of tropical cyclones and other disastrous natural events.

6. Innovative observational technologies and applications: New instrumentation and technologies for theoretical advances in challenging problems in marine, atmospheric, and geophysical sciences.

7. The climate system and air-sea interactions: Internal oceanic and atmospheric dynamics and ocean-atmosphere coupling from turbulent to global scales that drives the weather and climate systems.

8. Solid Earth System: Dynamic evolutions in geological components (sediments, rocks, plates, etc.) and their interfaces with human activities.

9. Hydrological cycle: Freshwater source, transport, and quality on regional and global scales and their impacts on current and future climate and society.

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