Current Grad Student: Sally Warner
Sally is doing her research on form drag in tidal flow past a headland. She is trying to sort out why the drag we measured at Three Tree Point (TTP) is so much greater than one would expect from simple theory (like flow past a bluff body with an order-one drag coefficient). She'll be doing field work at TTP as part of our new NSF project with Moum, Nash and Skyllingstad (OSU) to directly measure the bottom pressure signal there.
Current Grad Student: Wayne Martin
Wayne is planning to defend his PhD in Spring 2008. He has spent his grad career sorting out some of the mysteries of tidal and subtidal flow in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Martin, W., P. MacCready, and R. Dewey (2005) Boundary Layer Forcing of a Semidiurnal Cross-Channel Seiche. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 35, 1518-1537.
Former Grad Student: Ryan McCabe
Ryan received his PhD at the end of 2007. He did his Master's with MacCready, making intensive drifter observations of the tidal headland eddy behind Three Tree Point. He did his PhD co-advised by MacCready and Barb Hickey, working on the RISE project. Ryan is current a postdoc in Australia at UNSW working with Jason Middleton.
McCabe, R., P. MacCready, and G. Pawlak (2006) Form Drag due to Flow Separation at a Headland. J. Phys. Oceangr., 36, 2136-2152.
McCabe, R., B. M. Hickey, and P. MacCready: Observational estimates of entrainment and vertical salt flux in the interior of a spreading river plume. Submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research, May 2007.
Current Postdoctoral Associate: Yonggang Liu
Yonggang received his PhD with Bob Weisberg at USF. He is working on model-data comparisons on the RISE project.
MacCready, P., N. S. Banas, B. H. Hickey, E. P. Dever and Y. Liu (2007) A Model Study of Tide- and Wind-Induced Mixing in the Columbia River Estuary and Plume. Submitted to Continental Shelf Res., April 2007. [Text PDF 271 kb, Figs PDF 1.5 Mb]
Current Postdoctoral Associate: Neil Banas
Neil received his PhD working with Barb Hickey (UW) on Willapa Bay. He is the ecosystem modeler for the RISE project.