Past Students

Name	Major and Status	Dissertation Title	Advisor
Mark R. Jordan	Summer 2008: Ph.D. Meteorology	"Development of a New Storm Surge Index for Global Prediction of Tropical Cyclone Generated Storm Surge"	Dr. Carol Anne Clayson

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Marshal Ward

Spring 2008: Ph.D., GFD

"PV-Induced Forcing of Gravity Waves in a Shallow Water Model"

P. Cunningham, L. St. Laurent

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Alexandre Macedo Fernandes

Fall 2006: Ph.D., Oceanography

"Salt Finger Fluxes in a Laminar Shear Flow"

Dr. Ruby Krishnamurti

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Volodymyr Zharkov

Fall 2007: Ph.D., GFD

"Retroflextion from Slanted Coastline-modeling Rings Injection into the South Atlantic During Glacials/Interglacials"

Dr. Doron Nof

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Christopher Werner

Fall 2007: Ph.D., GFD

"Double-diffusive Fingering in Porous Media"

Dr. Ruby Krishnamurti

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David Mozzoni

Fall 2007: Ph.D., Physics

"The Changing Geomagnetic Field from the Ionosphere to the Core-Mantle Boundary"

Dr. Joeseph Cain

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Jorge E. Lopez

Summer 2006: M.S. Oceanography

"Characterization of Preconditioning for Ocean Deep Convection in the Sea of Japan"

Dr. Carol Anne Clayson

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Luis Bejarano-Avedano

Summer 2006: Ph.D., GFD

"Coexistence of Leading Equatorial Coupled Modes for ENSO"

Dr. Fei-Fei Jin

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Derrick Weitlich

Spring 2005: M.S., Meteorology

"Seasonal and interannual variability of tropical diurnal warming of sea surface temperatures"

Dr. Carol Anne Clayson

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Guangquan Li

Fall 2004: Ph.D., GFD

"Laboratory Simulation of Solute Transport and Retention in a Karst Aquifer"

Dr. D. E. Loper

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Wenzhong Cao

2001: M.S., Computer Science

Dr. Riccardi

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Christian Homescu

2002: Ph.D., Mathematics

Dr. I. M. Navon

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Alessandro Stocchino

2002: Ph.D., GFD., Jointy with University of Genoa, Italy

"Double Diffusive Convection: experimental investigations"

Dr.Ruby Krishnamurti

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Jichum Li

Summer 1998: Ph.D., Mathematics

"Finite Element Applications and Analysis for Singularly Perturbed Problems in Shallow Water equations"

Dr. I. M. Navon

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Young-Heon Jo

Fall 1999: M.S. Oceanography

"Experimental Test of the Linear Stability Analysis for the Salt Fingers"

Dr. Ruby Krishnamurti

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Gregory Gahrs

Fall 1998: M.S. Meteorology

"Sensitivity of Tropical Cyclone Genesis Using Three Different Cumulus Connection Parameterizations"

Dr. R. L. Pfeffer

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Yanqui Zhu

Spring 1998: Ph.D., GFD

"4-D Variational Data Assimilation and Parameter Estimation Using the FSU Global Spectral Model and its Full-Physics Adjoint"

Dr. I. M. Navon

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Nihat Cubucku

Spring 1997: M.S. Meteorology

"A study of Tropical Cyclone Ocean Interaction with Realistic Topography"

Dr. R. L. Pfeffer

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Qiang Zhao

Summer 2000: Ph.D., GFDI

"4-Dimensional Variational Data Assimilation Study for Tropical Cyclone Development in Early Stages"

Dr. R. L. Pfeffer

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Gang-Peng Zhang

Fall 1995: Ph.D., GFDI

"A Numerical Model of Sal*censored*er Intrusion in the Southeast Coast of Florida"

Dr. R. L. Pfeffer

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Young-Kyun Yang

Summer 1995: Ph.D. Mathematics

"An Analysis of Mush-Chimney Structure"

Dr. D. Loper

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Zhengxian Wu

Fall 1996: M.S. Meteorology Spring 1998: M.S. Computer Science

Dr. R. L. Pfeffer

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Ram Kumar Venkataraman

Fall 1995: M.S. Oceanography

"A Mechanism for Ocean Mixed Layer Reopening: A Laboratory Model"

Dr. Ruby Krishnamurti

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Hisayoshi Shimizu

Spring 1996: Ph.D. GFD

"A Study of Small Scale Helicity and Alpha Effect in the Earth's Core"

Dr. D. Loper

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Young-Kyun Yang

Summer 2995: Ph.D., Mathematics

"An Analysis of Mush-Chimney Structure"

Dr. D. Loper

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Zhengxian Wu

Fall 1996: M.S. Meteorology (by examination) Spring 1998: M.S. Computer Science (by examination)

Dr. R.L. Pfeffer

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Ram Kumar Venkataraman

Fall 1995: M.S. Oceanography

"A Mechanism for Ocean Mixed Layer Reopening: A Laboratory Model"

Dr. Ruby Krishnamurti

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Hisayoshi Shimizu

Spring 1996: Ph.D., GFD

"A Study of Small Scale Helicity and Alpha Effect in the Earth's Core"

Dr. D. Loper

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Chung-Lin Shie

Fall 1995: Ph.D. Meteorology

"A Numerical Study of the Influence of Two-Wave Bottom Topography on Baroclinic and Barotropic Annulus Flows"

Dr. R. L. Pfeffer

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Kezhi Ruan

Fall 1994: Ph.D. Mathematics

"On the Motion of a Rigid Cylinder Parallel to Its Axis in a Rotating Electrically Conducting Fluid"

Dr. D. Loper

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Manuel Pondeca

Summer 1996: M.S. Meteorology

"Model Studies of Blocking Predictability Using the Adjoint Sensitivity Formalism"

Dr. A. I. Barcilon

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Qi Mao

Spring 1994: Ph. D., GFD

"Numerical Simulation of Tropical Cyclones in a Coupled Atmosphere- Ocean Model with Nonuniform Mixed Layer Depth"

Dr. R. L. Pfeffer

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Bin Li

Summer 1996: Ph. D., GFD

"On the Timing of Warm and Cold El Nino - Southern Oscillation Events"

Dr. A. J. Clarke

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Shangzuo Gao

Summer 1996: Ph. D. Mathematics

"Algorithms for determination of embedding dimensions for nonlinear analysis of chaotic time series and a study a fractal dimensions and predictabilities of weather attractors over the Eastern United States"

Dr. J. Magnan

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Wen Ding

Summer 1995: Ph. D., GFD

"Storm Track in a Stratified Rotating Fluid with Topography"

Dr. R. L. Pfeffer

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Yehui Chang

Spring 1994: Ph. D. Mathematics

"Use of Empirical Orthogonal Functions as Basis Functions in Numerical Weather Prediction"

Dr. A. I. Barcilon

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Yi-Hong Cai

Summer 1994: Ph. D. Mathematics

"Domain Decomposition Algorithm and Parallel Computational Technique for Numerical Solutions of PDEs with Applications to the Finite Element Shallow Water Modeling"

Dr. I. M. Navon

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Sergy Borisov

Summer 1996: Ph. D. Oceanography

"Abyssal Cross-Equatorial Flows"

Dr. Doron Nof

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David Bachiochi

Spring 1995: M.S. Meteorology

"The Effects of Topographic Structure on the Low-Frequency Modes in a Quasi-Geostrophic Two-Layer Model, Using Complex Empirical Orthogonal Functions"

Dr. A. I. Barcilon

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Scott Applequist

1993: M.S. (by examination) Spring 1998: Ph.D. Meteorlogy

"Nonlinear Modal Output Statistics for Probabilistic Precipitation Forecasting" (Spring 1998)

Dr. R. L. Pfeffer

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Jean Bidlot

Summer 1993: Ph.D. GFD

"Maintenance of continental boundary layer shear through counter gradient vorticity flux in a barotropic model"

Dr. M. Sterm

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Zheng Liu

1992: M.S. Meteorology

The effect of transient eddies on time-mean flow in the atmosphere"

Dr. R. L. Pfeffer

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Brian Kelly

1992: Ph.D. GFD

"On the generation and the dispersion of Yanai wave with a spectral Chebyshev-Collocation reduced-gravity ocean model"

Dr. J. J. O'Brien

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P. Jayakumar

Fall 1992: Ph.D. Mathematics

"On the characterization of turbulent thermal convection as spatio-temporal chaos"

Dr. J. Magnan

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David Couliette

1992: Ph.D. Mathematics

"Initiation and development of creeping thermal plumes"

Dr. D. E. Loper

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Huijun Yang

1991: Ph.D. GFD

"Hele Shaw convection with imposed shear flows"

Dr. Ruby Krishnamurti

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Xiong-Shan Chen

1991: M.S. Meteorology

"The aliased and the de-aliased spectral models of the shallow water equations"

Dr. R. L. Pfeffer

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