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Education
Statement
Graduate students in the Ocean Physics Department (OPD) take their
coursework through an academic department at the University of Washington, while pursuing research projects with a faculty advisor in OPD. These projects become the students' masters thesis and/or doctoral dissertation. OPD offers graduate student training with the opportunity to experience the entire life cycle of sea-going research projects, including experiment planning, participation in research cruises, data processing, scientific analysis and the presentation of results at national and international meetings. Many projects involve considerable
hands-on participation, and graduate students often work with unique instruments developed or under development by OPD scientists and engineers. Graduate students commonly participate in field
experiments—sites include the Hawaiian Ridge, Pacific Ocean (off Costa
Rica), Banda Sea (Indonesia), Labrador Sea, Denmark Strait, Knight Inlet
(British Columbia), Japan/East Sea, Gulf of Alaska and Adriatic Sea.
| GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS |
Brian Chinn
Advisors: James Girton & Matthew Alford
A Seattle native, Brian's education includes a B.S. (2003) in Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara and an M.S. (2005) in Mechanical Engineering, with a focus on Applied Ocean Sciences, from the University of California at San Diego 2005. He worked as a Scientist/ Oceanographer for Planning Systems Inc. in San Diego for two years before coming to the UW for graduate school. Brian will be researching internal waves in the Philippines.
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Byron Kilbourne
Advisor: James Girton
From Nashville, Tennessee, with a BS in Physics from the University of Tennessee, Byron is interested in studying deep ocean processes to improve predictive ability of theoretical models. A key factor in choosing UW/APL for graduate school was the opportunity to work with James Girton on the DIMES project, to study mixing in the Drake Passage region. Byron served in the USAF from 1998-2003, and later received the NOAA Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship, which funded a summer 2007 internship at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab.
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Andy Pickering
Advisor: Matthew Alford
From Dracut, Massachusetts, Andy graduated from Northeastern
University in 2008 with a B.S. in Physics, minor in Geology. He was introduced to oceanography during a fellowship at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 2007 and decided to pursue graduate studies at the UW, working with Matthew Alford.
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Shuan Zhang
Advisor: Jan Newton & Matthew Alford
From Qingdao, a pretty coastal city in China, Shuan earned her BS degree in Marine Science earlier in 2008 from the Ocean University of China in Qingdao. She was attracted to the UW by the diversity of the program in physical oceanography as well as the numerous joint and affiliate projects with two world-class research laboratories. She visited APL and School of Oceanography in March 2008 and chose to pursue her graduate studies "at this beautiful place".
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