Alumni Profile: Shivanesh Rao
Degree: Earth and Environmental Science:Oceanography
sai27@unh.edu
Dissertation Title: Interaction Between the Coastal Ocean and the Estuarine Systems
Advisor: Dr. James Pringle
Description of Research
The processes in the coastal ocean and an estuary are a coupled system, each dependent on the other. However studies have generally idealized the system such that the system essentially becomes decoupled. In order to work towards understanding (or modeling) the real coupled system, the responses of the coastal ocean on the estuary (and vice-versa) have to be studied. I propose to use numerical models to understand the interaction between the idealized wind driven coastal ocean and an idealized estuary.
Education
- Ph.D., University of New Hampshire, 2012
- Master of Science, University of the South Pacific, 2005
Professional Positions
- Teaching Assistant, University of New Hampshire, 2010-
- Research Assistant, University of New Hampshire 2006-2010
- Physics Tutor, University of the South Pacific, 2004-2006
