Education

Teaching

Programs

Programs

• Intercampus Marine Science Programs MS, PhD
• Marine Science and Technology MS
• Marine Science and Technology PhD
• University of São Paulo Dual PhD PhD

Research

Research activities

• The response of the Gulf of Maine and adjacent coastal ocean to winter storm meteorological and tidal forcing
• Evolution and dynamics of the winter mixed layer
• Formation of Maine Intermediate Water in Wilkinson and Jordan Basins
• Dynamics of the exchange mechanisms that link the coast with the deeper adjacent ocean
• Investigating the kinematics and dynamics of transient tidal eddy-like structures east of Cape Cod with a variety of observations

Research

Research awards

• $ 1,336,152 awarded by Office of Naval Research for UMassD MUST III: Sub-Mesoscale and Mesoscale Interactions STudy (SubMIST)
• $ 116,821 awarded by University of Delaware | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for MARACOOS (Mid-Atlantic IOOS): Powering Understanding and Prediction of the Mid-Atlantic Ocean, Coast, and Estuaries

Research

Research interests

• Storm-forced and internal wave dynamics in the Gulf of Maine and southern New England Bight
• Estuarine circulation
• Design and construction of coastal ocean observing systems

Select publications

• Brown, W.S., and G. M. Marques (2012).
  Transient tidal eddy motion in the western Gulf of Maine, part 1: Primary structure
  Cont. Shelf Res
  
• Marques, G., and W.S. Brown (2012).
  Tidal eddy motions in the western Gulf of Maine, part 2: Secondary flow
  Cont. Shelf Res.
  
• Brown, W.S. (2011).
  Winter variability in the western Gulf of Maine, Part 1: Internal tides
  Dynam. Atmos. Oceans, 42, 224-249.
  

Additional links

• Website
• http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278434312002452

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