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Dr. Viviane Menezes

Assistant Scientist
Physical Oceanography

Contact Information:
Work: 508-289-3847
vmenezes@whoi.edu
Building: CLARK (315A)

Mailing Address:
266 Woods Hole Road, MS #21
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543

Research Interests

I am a sea-going and satellite oceanographer investigating the interplay between ocean circulation, water mass formation, salinity, and air-sea interaction. My research focuses on the Indian Ocean (and its marginal seas) and the Southern Ocean. I am particularly interested in understanding the spreading of the Red Sea Overflow Water, changes in Antarctic Bottom Water, and the abyssal and deep circulations. In these poor-observed regions, new observations are critical to advance science. My aim is to contribute to filling some of these observational gaps by exploring emergent technologies.

Selected Publications

Menezes, V. V. (2021) Advective pathways and transit times of the Red Sea Overflow Water in the Arabian Sea from Lagrangian simulations. Prog. Oceanogr., 199, 102697, doi: 10.1016/j.pocean.2021.102697

Menezes, V. V., Bower, A. and Farrar, J. T. (2019). Evaporative implications of dry-air outbreaks over the Northern Red Sea. J. Geophys. Res. Atmosphere, 124, 4829-4861, doi: 10.1029/2018JD028853

Menezes, V. V., Macdonald, A., Schatzman, C. (2017). Accelerated freshening of Antarctic Bottom Water over the last decade in the Southern Indian OceanScience Advances, 1(3), e1601426, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1601426

Menezes, V. V., Vianna, M. L., Phillips, H. E. (2014). Aquarius sea surface salinity in the South Indian Ocean: Revealing annual-period planetary waves. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 119, 3883-3908, doi: 10.1002/2014JC009935

Vianna, M. L., Menezes, V. V., Pezza, A. B., Simmonds, I. (2010). Interaction between Hurricane Catarina (2004) and warm core rings in the South Atlantic Ocean. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, v. 115, C07002, doi: 10.1029/2009JC005974

Awards

2018 Editor’s Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for Geophysical Research Letters. AGU

University of Tasmania Outstanding Achievers 2015 - Dean’s Honours Roll

Students

2021 Summer Fellow Student Hiroki Nagao (Oxford University, Earth Science)

2020 Summer Fellow Student Thanda Newkirk (Wellesley College -Environmental Science)

 

 

Education

Ph.D.: Marine Science, 2015. CSIRO-UTAS Quantitative Marine Science Program, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

Certified programmer for Java platform, 2006. Sun Microsystems

Java developer and programmer, 2004. Brazilian Institute of Advanced Technology, Brazil

M.S.: Remote Sensing, 1999. National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil

B.S.: Oceanography, 1996. Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Biography

I grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, surrounded by beaches, but the sea was just part of the landscape, not something I would like to explore. When I applied for college and needed to choose a career, I was so hesitant that my father did it for me. He selected “anything” in his words. This anything turned out to be oceanography, and I had no clue what that was at that time. But, my father insisted I should go to college and see by myself. I have tried to move away from oceanography, but waves always brought me back. In my convoluted trajectory, I become a sea-going physical oceanographer against all the odds!

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