{"id":309,"date":"2015-02-26T11:50:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T16:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2015-02-26T11:52:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T16:52:31","slug":"grad-student-smith-keeps-surface-currents-and-disaster-response-on-his-radar-gomri-featured-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/grad-student-smith-keeps-surface-currents-and-disaster-response-on-his-radar-gomri-featured-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Grad Student Smith Keeps Surface Currents and Disaster Response on His Radar – GoMRI featured article"},"content":{"rendered":"

CARTHE graduate student Conor Smith is featured in an article by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative:<\/p>\n

After the Deepwater Horizon<\/em> oil spill, many Gulf residents wanted to know where the oil was going and how fast it would get there. Conor Smith is improving the accuracy and turn-around time of satellite-derived surface current velocity estimates for better ocean transport information.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Conor is working toward a method that accurately interprets these velocities using information contained solely within synthetic aperture radar<\/a> (SAR) satellite imagery. Currently, he combines ocean drifter data<\/a> and a numerical model to account for wave motion with SAR data to estimate current velocity. His goal is that SAR-based speed estimates will be accurate enough so that there is no need for labor-intensive drifter data and developing and validating a near-shore numerical model. Conor says that doing so \u201cwill be useful to oil spill mitigation, as it will provide a rapid assessment of the surface current movements that transport pollutants.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conor is an applied marine physics Ph.D. student at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science and a GoMRI Scholar<\/a> with CARTHE<\/a>. He shares the personal influences and intellectual experiences of a life lived on the water.<\/p>\n

To read the full article, please visit: GoMRI.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Photo credit: David Nadeau<\/p><\/div>\n

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