DynOPO Cruise 2017

My name is Stephen Griffies. I do research in ocean and climate physics at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab, and I teach at Princeton University. During March-May 2017, I was part of a cruise on the British Royal Research Ship (RRS) James Clark Ross to the Orkney Passage portion of the Southern Ocean. The cruise is part of the project: Dynamics of the Orkney Passage Outflow (DynOPO). This blog documents aspects of my experiences, including the personal and scientific.

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Nature article on Southern Ocean science

This article in Nature offers a great summary of key research ongoing in the Southern Ocean. The article has quotes from various collaborators from Princeton, Australia, and the UK. When I am through with Princeton University teaching later this autumn, I hope to summarize elements of the article within this blog. In the meantime, if you have 10-20 minutes to read it, you will garner a nice summary of certain big-picture scientific reasons for pursuing this research.