2015 APS/DFD Milton van Dyke Award winning poster presented at the DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion: Variable Density Vortex Ring Dynamics in Sharply Stratified Ambient Fluids (P0050) Vortex rings are commonly found in nature when a flow is impulsively started … Read more
(Originally posted on The Virginian-Pilot) Scientists are working on harnessing energy from the Gulf Stream off Cape Hatteras, N.C., where the ocean flows with more power than all of the world’s rivers combined. Gulf Stream currents might have more … Read more
(Originally posted on Endeavors.) Junior Francesca Peay is an undergraduate researcher majoring in environmental studies with a minor in marine sciences. She works in the Coastal Environmental Change Lab, and her research looks at how dune height affects beachfront … Read more
By KATHLEEN ONOREVOLE Kathleen Onorevole is a master’s student in Michael Piehler’s lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City. She studies the impact of ecological restoration on nutrient cycling. There are two … Read more
