People
Amala Mahadevan
My interests are in physical oceanography and climate, the oceanic carbon cycle, and biogeochemical distributions. I use modeling and analysis to investigate physical ocean processes and their implications on the productivity and distribution of phytoplankton, and the transport and mixing of properties. I have developed a non-hydrostatic ocean model suited to modeling limited domains in order to capture meso- and submesoscale phenomena. Read more
A brief CV:
- 2013-present Senior Scientist, Department of Physical Oceanography
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA - 2017-present Faculty Dean, Mather House, Harvard University
- 2011-2012 Associate Scientist with Tenure, Department of Physical Oceanography
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA - 2011-2011 Research Professor, Department of Earth Sciences
Boston University, Boston, MA - 2003-2011 Associate Research Professor, Department of Earth Sciences
Boston University, Boston, MA - 2007-present Adjunct Faculty
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA - 2003-06 Visiting Associate Professor Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA - 2001-03 Assistant Research Professor Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space
New Hampshire, NH - 2001-03 Senior Research Associate Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK - 1999-2001 Staff Scientist, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc., Cambridge, MA
- 1997-1998 Research Associate Dept of Earth & Planetary Sciences Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
- 1994-97 Postdoctoral Research Associate Department of Geophysical Sciences University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- 1994, Ph.D. Stanford University, Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory and program in Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics
- 1989, M.S. Stanford University
- 1987 B.E. Civil Engineering, VJTI University of Mumbai, India
Alumni
Ph.D. students
Gualtiero Victor Spiro Jaeger
Ph.D. Student
MIT/WHOI Joint Program
September 2013 – 2019
Currently working on ASIRI, an ONR project in the Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean. My interests float in the upper ocean at the interface between the tropical atmosphere and the surface waters, active with currents, eddies and turbulence. Read more
The sea-to-air transfer of heat and moisture is critical in atmospheric dynamics, affecting the yearly Monsoon rains over the region. I’m looking at how rain & river freshwater in the Bay of Bengal affects ocean stratification and air-sea fluxes, from the regional distribution to sub-mesoscale dynamics. The project involves shipborne observations in the bay, analysis of cruise-data and remotely-observed data, as well as numerical modelling of processes using PSOM.
Undegraduate: B.S. in Physics, College of Creative Studies, University of California Santa Barbara
Postdocs
Jim Thomas, Postdoc Scholar, OFI-Dal &Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 2019 - 2019
Melissa Omand, Postdoc Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 2011 – 2014
currently, Assistant Prof. U. Rhode Island
Mariona Claret, Postdoc Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 2013 – 2014
currently scientist at JISAO, U. Washington
Jean-Baptiste Gilet, Postdoc Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 2012 – 2013
Jinbo Wang, Postdoc Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 2011 – 2012
currently scientist at JPL
Gualtiero Badin, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Boston University 2010 – 2011
currently Junior Professor, University of Hamburg
Jacqueline Tweddle, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Boston University 2009 – 2010
currently scientist at a UK lab
Bror Jonsson, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Boston University 2006 – 2008
currently, Research faculty at U. New Hampshire
Graduate Student advisees
B. Cael Barry, Ph.D. student, MIT/WHOI Joint Program, co-advised 2014 – 2016
Samantha Siedlecki, PhD, University of Chicago, Co-advised 2004 – 2010
currently Scientist at JISAO, U. Washington
Summer/ Guest Students
Yoana Guzman (Summer student fellow 2020), Guilherme Salvador(Guest student, summer 2019), Margaret Conley (Guest investigator,spring 2019), Daniel Tarry (Guest student, Fall 2018), Eugenio Cutolo(Guest student, Fall 2018) Yenchia Feng (Guest student, summer 2017), Kendra Lynn (Summer student fellow 2016), Qi Li (GFD Fellow, 2016), Sarah Brody (Guest 2014), Sebastian Essink (Guest 2012-13), LaurenDana (Guest 2013, 2014 summer), Lenna Quackenbush (Guest, Fall2013), Marcel du Plessis (Guest, Fall 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2017), Mara Freilich (Summer student fellow 2014)