{"id":622,"date":"2022-03-09T12:59:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T16:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpstaging.whoi.edu\/site\/polzin\/?page_id=622"},"modified":"2026-09-05T11:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T15:34:17","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/polzin\/front-page\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h1>How I approach my craft<\/h1>\r\n<p>There are three dances I do on a daily basis:<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li><strong>Nature vs Nurture<\/strong><br \/>By nature I am an INFP. I like detail and excel at pattern perception. If you work with me it helps to have a very large bandwidth for information. What constitutes a pattern is a loop with nurture, but what drives the loop is emotional. By nurture I do maths and logically organize information. I am good at sums, but it has never been a well spring of creativity.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>NonDualism<\/strong><br \/>A fundamental Buddhist tenent, everything is related to everything else. If you don&#8217;t think so, you need to look harder. I like Statistical Physics much more than Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. I like relationships, families and communities and communication in which the feedbacks are recognized. GFD typically starts with a pronunciation of single space and time scales and deals with the behavior of the individual in isolation. Master-slave relationships like linear instability calculations can be useful, but ultimately boring. The precepts of GFD are about isolation and dominance. It is a masculine world view in which you tell the ocean how to behave rather than listening to what it has to say. I&#8217;ve learned the ocean really doesn&#8217;t care what you say.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Epistemology<\/strong><br \/>How do you know what you know? How good are your measurements and how has your sampling colored your understanding of the measurements?<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<h2>What I do<\/h2>\r\n<p>Basically, I write stories about the things I experience. My stories have words and pictures and symbols.<\/p>\r\n<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been writing stories about things I don&#8217;t see. These are much harder to write from a scientific context based in empirical ratification.<\/p>\r\n<p>I like to listen to other people&#8217;s stories and work with them to create things that are more beautiful than I could create by myself. Here are some of them:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Professor Rafaele Ferrari. URL. Very much an intellectual stud. Raf and I started collaborating when he was a post-doc at WHOI. The authorship of Polzin and Ferrari (2004) and Ferrari and Polzin (2005) is flipped from the actual work that went into the papers. I did this because I knew Raf could a much better job developing and selling the ideas of T-S variability than I ever could.<\/li>\r\n<li>Professor Alberto Naveira Garabato. URL. A really sweet kid. Alberto walked into my office and I understood that he was an INF too, and that communication would be easy. Alberto has an incredible ability to work with diverse personalities and larger groups.<\/li>\r\n<li>Professor Yuri Lvov. URL. A bit of an odd-ball here. Yuri is both useful for his mathematical abilities we have written some very engaging stories about nonlinear systems.<\/li>\r\n<li>Asst. Professor Stephanie Waterman. URL. SNW is at the top of my list of folks I want to spend time with at sea. Can do also extends to story writing. She makes it easy.<\/li>\r\n<li>Jim Ledwell. URL. Jim&#8217;s data have just been an intellectual feast.<\/li>\r\n<li>Helen Phillips. URL. Writing stories about T-S variability. It is a very unique and eye-opening experience.<\/li>\r\n<li>Sonya Legg. URL. Writing stories about Boundary Mixing.<\/li>\r\n<li>Amelie Meyer. URL.<\/li>\r\n<li>Max Nikurashin. URL. Max does very high resolution numerics. This has considerably informed my opinions about boundary mixing.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2>Visitors \/ post-docs \/ Students over the years<\/h2>\r\n<p>Andrea Costa<br \/>Oliver Sun<br \/>Louis Clement<br \/>Angelica<br \/>Amelie Meyer<br \/>Maria Broadbridge<br \/>Max Nikurashin<br \/>Raf Ferrari<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How I approach my craft There are three dances I do on a daily basis: Nature vs NurtureBy nature I am an INFP. I like detail and excel at pattern perception. If you work with me it helps to have a very large bandwidth for information. 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