Office: CAS 131E
Phone: 617.353.5511
E-mail: amala@bu.edu
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| Ph.D. | 1995 | Stanford University |
| M.S. | 1989 | Stanford University |
| B.E. | 1987 | University of Bombay, India |
Amala Mahadevan’s interests are in oceanography and climate, biogeochemical cycles in the ocean — the ocean’s role in the carbon cycle, air-sea interaction and gas exchange, ocean modeling, and computational mathematics. She uses modeling to investigate physical ocean processes and their implications on ocean biogeochemistry. She has developed a non-hydrostatic ocean model suited to modeling limited domains in order to capture local mesoscale and small-scale phenomena. She has worked on open boundary conditions for ocean models, frontal and mesoscale ocean processes, the large-scale distribution of radiocarbon 14C, predictability of the large-scale wind-driven circulation using singular vectors, the dynamics of the shelfbreak front and coastal flows over topography, the sea surface patchiness of various biogeochemical tracers, and mesoscale variability of sea surface pCO2. Her objective is to use data and models to discover relationships between physical processes and observed variables.
Coastal and Marine Science research group
Surface Processes research group