6 month review and plan: Scott Veirs

Progress on previous goals

• Major events
  1. Received outstanding paper award for Fall AGU poster
  2. Delivered poster at RIDGE Educational ISS meeting
  3. Took MGG option advice to drop lab component (see revised thesis outline)
• Near-bottom heat flux publication/chapter
  1. Figures and prose nearly complete
  2. Aiming for mid-late June submittal to G^3
  3. Initial coherence and phase lag calculations
  4. Puff model used to weight "instantaneous" N/S heat flux calculations
• Upper-layer heat flux publication/chapter
  1. Initial model runs explain No/So/MEF obs as pooling/streaming, but NoMEF station observed signal is likely from High Rise.
  2. Need to implement ability to sample model at moving point (to simulate field observations)

Outline of 6-month plan

1. Jun03: This meeting: Reading committee and final exam timing
2. Jun~30: Submit near-bottom heat flux paper to G^3
3. Sep~1: Appoint reading committee and circulate draft thesis
4. Oct~1: Final examination
5. Nov~1: Submit final draft of thesis (<60 days after final exam)
6. Dec~1: Submit upper-layer heat flux paper

• Continue to minimize teaching activities until thesis completion
• Scouting for short-term ops to develop local/Pacific environmental/marine science courses in winter/spring 2003. Possibilites with Sea Education Association, Seattle Central, and Ocean Inquiry Project.
• Seeking long-term NW research/teaching position starting in fall 2003.