Pathways and fate of fresh water around the southern tip of Greenland
A joint observation and modeling study of the "Pathways and fate of fresh water around the southern tip of Greenland" has been funded by the Ocean Sciences Division of the National Science Foundation. The three-year project will involve two summers (2021 and 2022) of fieldwork, deploying surface drifters and profiling floats along the southeast Greenland shelf. We will also develop a high-resolution ocean circulation model of the region to broaden the temporal and spatial scales of the observations. The principal investigators are myself and Bob Pickart from WHOI, and Renske Gelderloos from Johns Hopkins.
Transport and fate of the Labrador Coastal Current
A three-year project to track the "Transport and fate of the Labrador Coastal Current" has been funded by the Ocean Sciences Division of the National Science Foundation. We will deploy four current meters on the Labrador Shelf to measure the integrated transport of the the current, as well as three Submerged Autonomous Launch Platforms (SALPs) that will deploy surface drifters every 15 days into the current to track its fate along the Newfoundland Shelf. The principal investigators are myself, Dan Torres, and Amy Bower, all from WHOI.
