Associate Professor
University of Miami
Applied Marine Physics
jolascoaga@rsmas.miami.edu

Josefina Olascoaga has extensive experience in applying dynamical systems techniques to study ocean transport and mixing. The main focus of her work is in the identification of key material surfaces, broadly known as Lagrangian Coherent Structures (LCSs), which shape global transport and mixing patterns. She has published more than fifteen papers dealing with LCSs. These papers include five papers concerning transport and mixing in the Gulf of Mexico. Olascoaga has been co-organizer of the Lorentz Center workshop on "Coherent structures in dynamical systems", which brought together experts on LCS theory. She is currently member of the organizing committee of the 2013 SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems. She has been co-convener for several times of the EGU General Assembly Session "Mixing, diffusion and Lagrangian transport in geophysical flows."