August 20, 2013 – Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative

Shark Tale: 12-foot Arctic Predator Caught in Warm Gulf of Mexico

August 20, 2013

A university research crew captured a whopping 12-foot Greenland shark from 6,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico

Drifter trajectories from the GLAD expedition from October 2012, superimposed on the sea surface temperature (SST) from MODIS data. The tails are three weeks long. The wiggles on features in the SST image result from the submesoscale motions where the highest property exchange between the ocean and atmosphere is thought of take place. Image Credit: Edward Ryan

Ozgokmen Presents Drifter Research from Oil-Spill Study at U.S. Climate Summit

August 20, 2013

Meeting organizers invited Dr. Tamay Ozgokmen with the University of Miami to present results on ocean processes from his team’s Grand Lagrangian Deployment (GLAD) experiment