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Department Lead

Chris Chickadel

Senior Principal Oceanographer

Affiliate Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Areas			Research Tools
Air-Sea Exchange—gas and heat, biogeochemical cycling, rainfall Coastal—rivers, tidal flats, nearshore Ocean/Atmosphere—climate change, ocean circulation, atmospheric rolls, hurricanes Sensors—microwave, infrared, laser, hydrophone, dissolved gas Waves—wave breaking, internal waves			Our remote sensing tools span a wide range of scales — from satellite remote sensing, to field experiments using surface and airborne platforms, and to laboratory experiments in wave tanks. Remote sensing instruments used include electro-optical sensors (microwave, infrared, and laser) and acoustic sensors (sonars and hydrophones).

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Publications

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First Look at PACE Ocean Color Observations

Ali Chase

26 April 2024

PACE: Identifying Phytoplankton Communities from Space

Ali Chase, Peter Gaube

11 April 2024

Interns Experience Research At Sea

Amanda Labrado

19 September 2023

Why physicists are air-dropping buoys into the paths of hurricanes

New Scientist

James Dinneen

20 September 2024

NOAA researchers study sea ice retreat, link to harmful algal blooms

The Nome Nuggest

Colin A. Warren

14 June 2024

Hyperspectral cameras and high-tech buoys: Inside NOAA's Arctic AIR mission

KNOM Radio, Nome, AK

Ben Townsend

7 June 2024

Observations of elevated mixing and periodic structures within diurnal warm layers

Zeiden, K., J. Thomson, A. Shcherbina, and E. D'Asaro

9 November 2024

Characterizing the atmospheric boundary layer for offshore wind energy using synthetic aperture radar imagery

Stopa, J.E., D. Vandemark, R. Foster, M. Emond, A. Mouche, and B. Chapron

1 November 2024

Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE): An oceanographic field campaign in the Beaufort Sea

Drushka, K., E. Westbrook, F.M. Bingham, P. Gaube, S. Dickinson, S. Fournier, V. Menezes, S. Misra, J.P. Valentin, E.J. Rainville, J.J. Schanze, C. Schmidgall, A. Shcherbina, M. Steele, J. Thomson, and S. Zippel

16 September 2024