Benjamin Scheifele is currently working on his Ph.D. He uses ocean gliders to study ocean turbulence and mixing in the Arctic Ocean. 
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Benjamin has a B.Sc. in Physics from ​St. Francis Xavier University and a M.Sc. in Physical Oceanography from UBC.  He is a recipient of a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, a Killam Doctoral Scholarship, a Four Year Doctoral Fellowship, and an NSERC CGS - Micheal Smith Foreign Study Supplement.

Melanie Chanona is currently working on her Ph.D. She is using a number of distinct historical datasets to complete a widespread survey of internal waves and associated turbulent mixing in the Canadian Arctic Ocean.

Melanie has a B.Sc. (Hon) in Mathematical Physics from ​the University of Waterloo.  She is a recipient of a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, a Killam Doctoral Scholarship, a Four Year Doctoral Fellowship.

Tara Howatt is currently working on her Ph.D. Her work aims to understand the driving physical mechanisms that influence zooplankton distributions, which in turn helps describe baleen whale habitat in offshore waters.

Tara has a B.Sc. (Hon) in Oceanography & Geophysics from UBC and a M.Sc. in Physical Oceanography from McGill University.  She is a recipient of a NSERC doctoral Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS D).

Hayley Dosser is a postdoctoral research fellow.  Her work aims to determine how oceanographic conditions limit or enhance nutrient availability in support of plankton production along the juvenile salmon migration route off the coast of British Columbia.

Hayley has a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Alberta, a Ph.D. in physical oceanography from the University of Washington, and postdoctoral training in the Department of Geology & Geophysics at Yale University.  She is supported by the Mitacs Accelerate program partnered with the Tula Foundation and a MEOPAR Postdoctoral Fellowship.

​Chris Payne is a sea-going technician in the Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences at UBC.  He works tirelessly to make our glider missions a success.

Alumni

Postdocs

• Kial Stewart (2014-2015)

Project Title: Anisotropy of eddy variability in the global ocean 
Next Position: Research Fellow, Australian National University (Australia)

PhDs

• Alice Barthel (2014-2017)​

         (co-supervised with A. Hogg (ANU) & S.         
​           Keating (USNW))

Thesis Title: Southern Ocean jet-topography interactions and their impact on eddy fluxes 
Next Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA)

MScs

• Jacquie-Lee Epstein (2015-2018)

​         (nee Thibault)
         (co-supervised with P. Myers (UofA))

• Andrew Gravelle (2011-2012)

Thesis Title: The Impact of Internal Tide Mixing Parameterizations in an Eddy-Permitting Model of the Arctic Ocean
Next Position: Research Assistant, University of British Columbia 

​Thesis Title: Ray tracing observed internal waves in the Southern Ocean 
Next Position: Ph.D. student, National Oceanography Centre (UK) 

BScs

• Emma Howard

         (co-supervised with A. Hogg (ANU))

​​Thesis Title: Sources of momentum in the Southern Ocean 
Next Position: Ph.D. student, Cambridge University (UK) 

Undergraduate RAs/Internship students

• Martin Ffrench* (2018)

• Jean-Loup Hannebicq (2018)

• Danil Platonov* (2018)

• Erin Wetter* (2018)​

• Sabet Seraj* (2016)

• Anna Conchon (2009)

Project Title: The role of bottom topography in modulating eddy anisotropy

Project Title: The role of bottom topography in modulating eddy mixing

Project Title: Deformation parameterization of small-scale eddies

Project Title: Characterization of the anisotropy of coherent mesoscale eddies ​

Project Title: The geometric decomposition of the eddy forcing: Extension to 3D 

Project Title: Jet-topography interactions in leaky Southern Ocean jets 

* NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award awardee.

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