Fieldwork Experience

I have spent a total of 97 days at sea, performing fieldwork for either projects that I was directly associated with, or volunteered to gain valuable experience.

• Enhancing Knowledge of the Arabian Sea Marine environment through Science and Advanced Training (EKAMSAT-ASTraL) IOP cruise in the Bay of Bengal on R/V Thomas G Thompson, May-June 2024. Chief Scientist: Dr Leah Johnson. Major responsibilities included being part of Fast-CTD watch team, processing WaMoS data and co-ordinating a waves working group (Office of Naval Research).

• Enhancing Knowledge of the Arabian Sea Marine environment through Science and Advanced Training (EKAMSAT-ASTraL) Pilot cruise on R/V Roger Revelle, June 2023. Chief Scientist: Dr Craig Lee. Major responsibilities included being part of the uCTD watch team and processing ship MET, TSG, WaMoS data (Office of Naval Research).

• Studying the Oxygen Deficient Zones in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific (along the coasts of Baja California, Mexico) on R/V Sally Ride, December 2020. Chief Scientist: Dr Mark Altabet. Major responsibilities included collecting water samples, deploying CTD casts, process CTD data and shore support using remote sensing to study N-loss in ODZs (National Science Foundation)

• Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations in the Bay of Bengal (MISO-BoB) on R/V Sally Ride, July-August 2019. Chief Scientist: Dr Emily Shroyer. Major responsibilities included being part of Fast-CTD Deployment, Watch and Recovery Team (Office of Naval Research).

• Training Cruise, Introduction to Physical Oceanography, UMass Dartmouth on R/V Lucky Lady, October 2019. Chief Scientist: Profs. Miles Sundermeyer, Geoff Cowles. This was a training cruise for first year graduate students in Physical Oceanography, where collecting water samples and deploying CTDs was taught.