On-going Projects
Recent Changes of Sea Level and Circulation around the Grand Banks: Local Dynamics and Broader Connections, lead PI with J. Yang, National Science Foundation, 2023-2026.
A Seagoing Field Trial Program for Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement on the Northeast Shelf of the United States, co-PI with A. Subhas (lead), J. Rheuban, H. Kim, Z. Wang, A. Michel, J. Kapit, Carbon2Sea and ICONIQ Capital, 2023-2026.
Modeling the Impact of Offshore Wind Farm Wakes on the Hydrodynamic Environment on the Southern New England Shelf, PI, WHOI Independent Study Award, 2023-2024.
A new size-based biophysical ecosystem model of the U.S. Northeast continental shelf, co-PI with G. Britten (lead), WHOI Interdisciplinary Study Award, 2023-2024.
Regional multi-year prediction for the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf, co-PI with Y.-O. Kwon (lead), H. Seo, P. Fratantoni, M. Alexander and V. Saba, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Program Office, 2020-2023, No-Cost Extension to 2024.
Investigating the Connection between the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and the Northwest Atlantic Coastal Sea Level: Connecting the Dots across the Shelf Break, lead-PI with J. Yang and J. Zhao, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Program Office, 2020-2023, No-Cost Extension to 2024.
Past Projects
Drivers of the Recent Salinification in the Northwest Atlantic Shelf-Slope Region, PI, WHOI Independent Research and Development Award, 2021.
Numerical Investigation of Recent Extreme Shelf-slope Exchanges in the Mid-Atlantic Bight, PI, WHOI Independent Research and Development Award, 2020.
Towards a comparative understanding of shelf-ocean interactions in the Northwest Pacific and Northwest Atlantic, co-PI with J. Yang, Y. Ding (lead), and X. Lin, OUC-WHOI Cooperative Research Initiative, 2018-2020.
Development and evaluation of a seasonal-to-interannual statistical forecasting system for oceanographic conditions and living marine resources on the Northeast U.S. Shelf, Co-PI with Y.-O. Kwon (lead), G. Gawarkiewicz, T. Joyce, J. Nye, J. Hare, P. Fratantoni, V. Saba, and T. Miller, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Program Office, 2017-2021.
The Northwestern North Atlantic: A Retrospective Analysis of Observations from the CV Oleander on the Shelf and Slope, co-PI, with M. Andres (lead), National Science Foundation, 2016-2019, No-Cost Extension to 2020.
Collaborative Research: Physical-Biological Processes of Gulf Stream Warm Core Rings: Vertical Nutrient Delivery and Ecosystem Response, lead-PI, with P. Gaube, National Science Foundation, 2016-2019, No-Cost Extension to 2021.
Physical and Biological Exchange Processes and Lagrangian Pathways between Deep Ocean and Shelf Regions of the Northwestern Atlantic, co-PI, with I. Rypina (lead), J. Llopiz and L. Pratt, National Science Foundation, 2016-2019, No-Cost Extension to 2021.
Interactions between the East China Sea and North Pacific: Interannual-to-decadal Variability, co-PI, with Y.-O. Kwon (lead), T. Joyce, B. Gan, and Z. Yao, WHOI-OUC Joint Center, 2016-2017.
Interannual Variability of Winter-Spring Temperature in the Middle Atlantic Bight: Linkages to Large-Scale Atmospheric and Oceanic Changes, lead-PI, with Y.-O. Kwon and G. Gawarkiewicz, National Science Foundation, 2014-2017.
Impact of extreme Climate Variability on the Circulation and Heat Budget in the Coastal Ocean of Northeast U.S., lead-PI, with G. Gawarkiewicz and D. McGillicuddy, Coastal Ocean Institute, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2014.