I am a third-year undergraduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studying environmental sciences and applied mathematics. As an undergraduate, I have been exposed to two main disciplines of oceanography. The first is observational physical oceanography with Dr. Harvey Seim at UNC. The second is geochemical ocean modeling with Dr. Shuang Zhang at Texas A&M University.
I would like to say I’m fairly interested in research using both ocean observation systems and modeling. The locality of using observational methods such as gliders is important for us to understand specific processes we see in our oceans, but without the power of computing and advanced models, we fail to “fill in the gaps.”
Besides the oceanography bit, I enjoy reading (or at least trying to) novels, playing guitar, and watching/playing soccer.