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Avijit Gangopadhyay, PhD

Commonwealth Professor

508-910-6330

508-999-8197

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School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 230

1990

University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

PhD in Ocean Engineering

1981

Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

MTech in Applied Mechanics

1979

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

BTech in Naval Architecture

Coastal operational ocean modeling (western North Atlantic (MARCOOS), Brazil Current system, Trinidad-North Brazil Current ring region, Gulf of Maine/Georges Bank)
Basin-scale circulation modeling to understand the North Atlantic Oscillation and its impact on the Gulf Stream, the Gulf of Maine and the ecosystem
Synthesis of multi-scale, multi-disciplinary data sets from satellite and in-situ observations with numerical models in different parts of the world ocean
Recent Changes in Shelfbreak Exchange on the New England Shelf: Process-Oriented Observations of Salinity Maximum Intrusions, Funded by NSF (08/2019--07/2022).

Ocean circulation and numerical modeling
Applying mesoscale and finer resolution models for operational synoptic ocean forecasting
Understanding the multi-scale response of ecosystems to multi-scale climatic forcing using innovative basin-scale modeling and data-model assimilation and synthesis approaches

Gangopadhyay, A., G. Gawarkiewicz, N. Etige, M. Monim and J. Clark (2019).
An Observed Regime Shift in the Formation of Warm Core Rings from the Gulf Stream
Scientific Reports, 9
Shee, A., Sil, S., Gangopadhyay, A., Gawarkiewicz, G., & Ravichandran, M (2019).
Seasonal evolution of oceanic upper layer processes in the northern Bay of Bengal following a single Argo ﬂoat
Geophysical Research Letters, 46
Gawarkiewicz, G., R.E. Todd, W. Zhang, J. Partida, A. Gangopadhyay, M.-U.-H. Monim, P. Fratantoni, A. Malek Mercer, and M. Dent. (2018).
The changing nature of shelf-break exchange revealed by the OOI Pioneer Array
Oceanography, 31(1):, 60–7.