Sunday |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Boundary Layer Dynamics |
| Discussion Leader: Erika McPhee-Shaw (Western Washington University, USA) |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | James Girton (University of Washington, USA) "Observational Insights on the Energetics of Drag and Mixing: From Abyssal Gravity Currents to the Wind-Driven Surface Layer" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Tobias Kukulka (University of Delaware, USA) "Ocean Surface Boundary Layers Under Tropical Cyclones" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Monday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Sub-Mesoscale Processes and Internal Waves |
| Discussion Leader: Robert Hetland (Texas A&M University, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Baylor Fox-Kemper (Brown University, USA) "Submesoscale Dynamics - Fronts, Eddies, Instabilities, and Their Interactions with Surface Waves" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Weifeng (Gordon) Zhang (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA) "Super- and Sub-inertial Dynamics at the Edge of the Mid-Atlantic
Bight Continental Shelf" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Annalisa Bracco (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) "Submesoscale Processes and Ocean Transport at Surface and Depth: The Case of the Gulf of Mexico" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Ice Shelf and Sea Ice Modeling |
| Discussion Leader: John Wilkin (Rutgers University, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Ben Galton-Fenzi (Australian Antarctic Division, Australia) "Modelling the Response of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to Ocean Forcing for Improved Sea-Level Projections" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Jean-Francois Lemieux (Environment Canada, Canada) "A Basal Stress Parameterization for Modeling Landfast Ice" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Tuesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Advanced Numerical Methods |
| Discussion Leader: Hans Burchard (Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemunde, Germany) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Alistair Adcroft (Princeton University, USA) "Coordinate-Free Modeling and Resolution-Independent Topography" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Mike Herzfeld (CSIRO, Australia) "Revisiting Open Boundary Conditions for Regional Ocean Models" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Joseph Zhang (Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, USA) "Recent Development of Unstructured-Grid Models for Oceans, Estuaries and Rivers" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | State Estimation and Data Assimilation |
| Discussion Leader: Brian Powell (University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Hans Ngodock (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) "A Representer Based Four Dimensional Variational Method for Weak Constraints Assimilation in the Free-Surface Navy Coastal Ocean Model (NCOM): Development, Demonstration, Validation and Operational Im" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Peter Oke (CSIRO, Australia) "Practical Data Assimilation: Ocean Forecasting by Hook or by Crook" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Wednesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Near-Shore and Estuarine Processes |
| Discussion Leader: Jacqueline McSweeney (Rutgers University, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Neil Ganju (US Geological Survey, USA) "Give them Tides: Hydrodynamic Modeling to Inform Ecological Research" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Sarah Giddings (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA) "Capturing the Dynamics of Ocean-Estuarine Interactions" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Henk Schuttelaars (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) "Mechanisms Driving Hyperturbid Estuaries" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Probabilistic Approaches |
| Discussion Leader: Pierre De Mey (CNRS/LEGOS, France) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Michael Dowd (Dalhousie University, Canada) "Bayesian Statistical Data Assimilation" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| Late-Breaking Topics: Shelf Ocean Interaction and Exchange with the Adjacent Deep Sea |
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | John Wilkin (Rutgers University, USA) "Shelf Ocean Interaction and Exchange with the Adjacent Deep Sea" |
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Jack Barth (Oregon State University, USA) "Shelf-Deep Ocean Exchange: Some Thoughts from the Left Coast" |
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Ruoying He (North Carolina State University, USA) "Understanding and Predicting Shelf-Ocean Interaction and Exchange - U.S. East Coast Examples" |
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Melanie Fewings (University of Connecticut, USA) "Feedbacks Between Sea-Surface Temperature and Wind Stress - Can Your Model Do That?" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Thursday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Physics / Ecosystem Interactions |
| Discussion Leader: Parker MacCready (University of Washington, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Jorn Bruggeman (Plymouth Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom) "Towards Custom Built Models for Water and Sediment Biogeochemistry Based on Reusable Components" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Samantha Siedlecki (University of Washington, USA) "Predicting Hypoxia and Ocean Acidification in Coastal Waters: What Do We Know and What Can We Expect?" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Claire Paris (Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, USA) "New Insights on Modeling Larval Life in Moving Fluids: Hydrodynamics, Cues, and Navigation" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Climate Change in the Coastal Ocean |
| Discussion Leader: Ruoying He (North Carolina State University, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Markus Meier (Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Sweden) "Challenges for Regional Climate Modeling" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Samantha Stevenson (University of Hawaii, USA) "The El Nino/Southern Oscillation Impact on Coral Reefs" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Friday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |