Mentor: Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University

Project Location

Brown University

Project Description

Narragansett Bay is one of the world’s best observed estuaries, and a key aspect of the C-AIM project is collecting together historical and ongoing datasets from the bay. These data will be used to evaluate the behavior of the Ocean State Ocean Model, an model under active development by students and post-doctoral scientists at URI and Brown. In past years, students have worked in this group to bring buoy, satellite, drone, Department of Health beach measurements, and ship-based observations into a form suitable for assessing the model’s skill. As we turn toward future modeling and real-time data collection, data sciences and statistics are becoming more of the process in comparing models and data.

This team will work together with the Rhode Island Data Discovery Center team and the Ocean State Ocean Model team to bring data and models together, including visualization. Past teams have evolved into teams to collect targeted observations in the field.

Additional Information

• Dr. Fox-Kemper’s Research Page
• “The Simulated Bay: Improved past, future simulations of Narragansett Bay will help researchers understand climate and environmental conditions,” a piece from RI C-AIM’s magazine The Current