RSMAS/MPO Coastal and Shelf Modeling

• Eddies in the Straits of Florida
• Tortugas Eddy
• High Resolution Currents
• Sea Level Changes Due to Hurricanes
• Fish Recruitment in the Florida Keys
• animations

SOUTH FLORIDA

• Shelf Circulation
• Model evaluation
• Salinity Changes in Florida Bay
• Eddy Passages
• Florida Current Transport

WEST FLORIDA SHELF

• Shelf Circulation
• Model Development and Evaluation

GULF OF MEXICO

• Loop Current Dynamics
• Initial and Boundary Conditions for Shelf and Coastal Models
• Hurricane Response
• Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs)
• Navy Coupled Ocean Data Assimilation (NCODA)
• Hurricane Response (Animation)

INTRA AMERICA SEAS

• Seasonal variability
• Inter-annual variability

NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO

• Mississippi River plume dynamics
• Coastal and Offshore circulation
• Loop Current - Mississippi River plume interactions

AEGEAN SEA

• North Aegean general circulation
• Parameterization of the Dardanelles outflow
• Buoyancy-driven flows
• Deep water basin renewal

IDEALIZED RIVER PLUME STUDIES

• Dynamics of river plumes
• Sensitivity tests and model parameterization
• Delta river plumes

NEWS

OUTREACH

ROMS | REGIONAL OCEAN MODELING SYSTEM

US VIRGIN ISLANDS

• Acropora Palmata reef building coral genetic break
• Seasonal variability of the mesoscale activity in the eastern Caribbean
• Fate of grouper larvae from spawning aggregations
• Connectivity patterns of shallow reef building coral and Nassau groupers populations in the US Virgin Islands
• Origin and patterns of the 2005 coral bleaching event in the Caribbean
• CaRA operational ocean model

BAHAMAS

• Bahamas Biocomplexity Project
• Connectivity patterns and dispersal kernels for coral reefs organisms
• Marine protected areas connectivity
• Marine sponges population dynamics and connectivity under harvest pressure
• Lobster larvae connectivity in the Turk and Caicos

FLORIDA BAY

• Dry Tortugas Pink Shrimp Fishery

MESO_AMERICAN REGION

• Terrestrial runoff in waters of the Mesoamerican region
• Fate of fish larvae from spawning aggregation sites