Bubble rising through stratified flow, viewed w/ Schlieren

With Artemis in the news and space on the big screen: in case you haven't seen them, JPL has posted a series of incredible videos from some of their missions: e.g., youtu.be/1rVH0YlcKyY?... and www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykl5... 🔭🧪 No hollywood dramatization needed

Work with me! Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University invites applications for a Doherty Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ocean Sciences. This competitive postdoctoral fellowship will be awarded for a one-year period, + 2nd year possible. Please see apply.interfolio.com/183855!

I'm only now learning about "vector meson dominance", a big idea put forth by Sakurai and others around 1960. Just as the pion comes in +, - and neutral forms and has spin 0, the rho meson comes in +, - and neutral forms and has spin 1 - so it's described by a "vector", like the photon. (1/n)

New Volume of Journal of Fluid Mechanics available on Cambridge Core https://cup.org/4dfo2TW New Volume = New Cover 📸 (A16) Bouncing to coalescence transition for droplet impact onto moving liquid pools Harris, D.M. et al. doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2026.11232

First runs in the internal wave channel we are constructing! You are seeing the density perturbations via the Schlieren method. The stratification doesn't go up to the free surface and you can see reflections of the internal waves off that interface and the bottom. 🌊

@baylorfk.bsky.social is not actually a fox. He's a Professor at @brown.edu whose research focuses on ocean physics and its role in the global climate system, and in particular, submesoscale turbulence, mixed-layer dynamics, and improving climate model accuracy through advanced parameterizations

6pm Monday 2/23 - Green Hill, South Kingstown RI Gusts and heavy snow have dissipated.

Surface ocean processes impact structure deep into the ocean interior. In our perspective paper, @maratimes.bsky.social, grad student Katarina Merk, and I discuss using physical perspectives to interpret subsurface biogeochemical distributions and why we as a community should care! 🌊

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🌿🌊 #WorldWetlandsDay A recent #URIGSO-led study analyzed 23,000+ sediment samples and found a key gap in a common method for measuring carbon in salt marshes. Addressing this gap is essential for understanding marsh resilience and for guiding blue carbon strategies. ➡️ Read more: buff.ly/T2ubRtp

In 1869, long before Einstein, the famous mathematician Sylvester announced that Clifford - the Clifford algebra guy - was studying whether space is curved! Clifford's mission to study this was almost thwarted by a shipwreck. But that didn't stop him! johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/s...

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And the paper is out! Great to work with my good friend @rocangel.bsky.social who led the way. www.seismosoc.org/news/tsunami...

The School of Marine Science & Policy at the University of Delaware is hiring! We are looking for a talented Coastal Physical Oceanographer to join us. More information is available here, and don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...

🌊🧪 Go see Lulabel's talk at DFD if you want to learn more about how wind makes waves! An old question, yet one we still don't know the full answer to.

Here's a view by #Sentinel-2 of the Rhone river plume within the Gulf of Lion waters. Other the change in water colour, and the strong front between the two water masses, I love how there are more wind-induced whitecaps in the bluer waters, although I do not have a direct explanation about it... 🧐🌊

South County Rhode Island 9pm 11/11. Aurora is visible to the naked eye, but this is taken with 3s exposure.

Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island. jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960

Check out our latest work, led by Jon Jung, Ph.D. student in the @amglab.bsky.social at @mpic.de: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here we show that the supply of excess phosphorous from accounts for the majority of observed Sargassum variability since 2011. 🌊 🧪 #Paleosky #CoralReefs

Our amazing students rand a whole class, including a week at sea, to teach other students about turbulence and mixing. 🌊 scripps.ucsd.edu/news/shaken-...

A modern treatment of water waves from one of the few people alive who is an expert on the whole story, from theory to practice. I will use sections of this for my classes. 🌊

Most people know how to draw an ellipse by pinning two ends of a string to a board and sweeping a pencil around inside the string, keeping it taut. But what about the 3D equivalent? Start with an ellipse and a hyperbola in orthogonal planes, with each curve’s vertices being the other’s foci.

I took a class on analog electronics (using Horowitz and Hill, of course) at UCSB from Martinis as an undergraduate and I remember him as an enthusiastic teacher who always had time to answer questions.

Hey fluids friends, we're recruiting in my department this year!

It's great that @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social is on bluesky -- I've learned a ton from him about math and physics over the years. 🧪🔭

🦞💙 Happy #NationalLobsterDay! Meet the star of the Ann Gall Durbin Aquarium on the University of Rhode Island's Bay Campus: a rare blue lobster, found in the wild in about one in two million! 🦑 🌊

Also read about this on Tom's blog! 🌊 mrtomsblog.com/instruments/

In the 1960s and 70s, Syukuro Manabe pioneered ways to model Earth’s atmosphere. In 2021, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work, which is often cited as foundational to modern climate science.

Bon voyage to our lab member Katie Stone on the very last @urigso.bsky.social R/V Endeavor cruise! As the sole URI scientist aboard, Katie is the last URI scientist to sail on this historic vessel that began its work in 1976.

Video is almost certainly real. From colleagues in Russia:

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If you happen to be interested in ocean mixing variability, stratified turbulence, or the fate of shoaling nonlinear internal waves on the inner shelf, our recent study has just appeared in JPO: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal.... Fun to work on this with @alexisonfluids.bsky.social & crew! 🌊🌊🌊

Happy #WorldOceanDay! 🌊🧪 Photo of Kelvin-Helmoltz instability: Nick Statom

Fun new paper at #SIGGRAPH2025: What if instead of two 6-sided dice, you could roll a single "funky-shaped" die that gives the same statistics (e.g, 7 is twice as likely as 4 or 10). Or make fair dice in any shape—e.g., dragons rather than cubes? That's exactly what we do! 1/n

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We have two articles (both by first-time scientific authors) in GRL! First up, led by PhD student Lulabel Ruiz Seitz, we find a simple interaction between lateral stirring and biology that has implications for modeling and observing cross-shore fluxes. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

We often use discretization to approximate continuous laws of physics, but it also goes the other way: You can use continuous equations to approximate the behavior of discrete systems! Here we'll see how electrical circuits can be modeled using the Laplace equation Δφ=0. [1/n]

🧪 SWOT, a recently launched NASA satellite, is about to teach us a lot about the heterogeneity of ocean wave fields

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Greg Wagner and I just published a paper (link.springer.com/article/10.1...) on wave momentum. It is well known that waves packets in deep water have no momentum, yet it takes momentum to generate them in the first place. Where does that initial momentum go?

Changing the game! We need to make sure we reward work like this (eg highly usable code)

This cute simulation of a jetting body came about as I helped fix WaterLily.jl issue #200(!) github.com/WaterLily-jl... #Julia

🎉 Congratulations to #URIGSO's Randy Watts, research professor of oceanography, who was recognized for 50 years of service to the University of Rhode Island at last week's employee milestone celebration. He has spent his career here reseraching strong ocean current systems. 🌊 ➡️ buff.ly/3PNxi3a

To high line or bottom turn? One of the more surreal reviews of my work by pro surfer/scientist Dr Cliff Kapono: www.surfer.com/how-to/cliff... 🌊🧪 @urigso.bsky.social

Really impressive, and scary, results from all star WHOI postdoc Iury Simoes-Sousa and colleagues on an extreme weather flooding event [disaster] in Southern Brazil from May of 2024. A striking example of the capabilities of NASA's recently launched SWOT satellite to monitor floods. 🧪

A fun read on how knowledge of approximate solutions to Schrodinger's eqtn (and careful tuning of Anderson localization) has led to a decrease of energy usage in US households largely through lighting efficiencies, moving from incandescent lightbulbs to LEDs:🧪 terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/02/23/c...

The Surf Lab just had our belated holiday party, which was a well timed jolt of fun and curiosity. We built a glider, ate pizza, and watched "Wind".