Air-Sea Interaction Research Group

Our research interests focus on air-sea interaction processes, including ocean surface waves, near surface atmospheric turbulence, upper ocean turbulence and mixing.

We investigate how ocean and atmosphere exchange energy, momentum, heat, and gases, and how the air-sea fluxes affect the coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean dynamics, including tropical cyclones.

Our group closely collaborates with the Hurricane Modeling Group.

Faculty

Air-Sea Interaction Research Group

Professor of Oceanography

Physical Oceanography

401.874.6509
tetsuhara@uri.edu

Hurricane Modeling Group

Professor of Oceanography

Physical Oceanography

401.874.6484
iginis@uri.edu

Current Students

Ph.D. Candidate

Advisors: Tetsu Hara & Isaac Ginis

apapandreou@uri.edu

Ph.D. Candidate

Advisor: Isaac Ginis & Tetsu Hara

joshua_port@uri.edu

Former Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Il-Ju Moon

Former Students

  • Xuanyu Chen (PhD 2020, co-supervisor: Ginis)
  • Xiao-Hui Zhou (PhD 2022, co-supervisor: Ginis)
  • Nyla Husain (PhD 2020)
  • Austen Blair (MS 2016, co-supervisor: Ginis)
  • Brandon Reichl (PhD 2015, co-supervisor: Ginis)
  • Yackar Mauzole (MS 2014)
  • Nobuhiro Suzuki (PhD 2012)
  • Cheng-An (Tom) Tung (MS 2008)
  • Yalin Fan (PhD 2007, co-supervisor: Ginis)
  • Eric VanInwegen (MS 2007)
  • Tobias Kukulka (PhD 2006)
  • Qingtao Song (PhD 2006, co-supervisor: Cornillon)
  • Michael Sutherland (MS 2006)
  • Nicholas Scott (PhD 2003)
  • Mete Uz (PhD 1999)
  • Hua Wei (MS 1999)
  • Dmitry Zuykov (MS 1999)
  • Andrey Karachintsev (MS 1998)
  • Kurt Hanson (MS 1996)