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Professor GANGOPADHYAY, AVIJIT (Dartmouth)
Associate Professor, Physics and CMAST

    Phone: (508) 910-6330
    Alt. Phone: (508) 999-8493
    Email: avijit@umassd.edu

Teaching the following courses:

Ocean Circulation and Modeling

Ocean-Atmosphere Dynamics

Seminar in Marine Science & Technology

**Disclaimer: Condensed CVs for the School of Marine Sciences. For a full CV, please contact the professor.**

Education:
1990 - Ph.D., Ocean Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

1981 - M.Tech. Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

1979 - B.Tech. Naval Architecture, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

Professional History:
1997 - Present - Associate Professor, Dept of Physics and SMAST, UMass Dartmouth

1997 - Present - Honorary Research Associate, Harvard University: Cambridge, MA

1995 - 1997 - Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA

1990 - 1995 - Research Associate, Harvard University

1993 - 1994 - Scientific Consultant Applied Mathematics, CT

1992 - 1993 - Scientific Consultant Applied Physics Lab, JHU

1981 - 1985 - Engineer, Engineers India Ltd., New Delhi, India

Current Research Support:
Appropriate Sampling resolution, distribution and variability determination of in - situ data for the Gulf of Maine, $50,000, (A. Gangopadhyay, PI) 01/2000 - - 09/2000. NUWC (Naval Underwater Warfare Center) - funded.

Implementation and validation of a Global Parallel Ocean Model (PARGOM) at University of Massachusetts, $1500 (A. Gangopadhyay, PI). 2000 - 2001. UMD Foundation.

Several other pending grants from NASA and NSF.

Selected Publications:
Gangopadhyay, A., A.R. Robinson, and H.G. Arango, 1997. Circulation and Dynamics of the Western North Atlantic, I: Multiscale Feature Models. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 14(6), 1314 - 1332.

Robinson, A.R., and A. Gangopadhyay, 1997. Circulation and Dynamics of the Western North Atlantic, II: Dynamics of Meanders and Rings. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 14(6), 1333 - 1351.

Gangopadhyay, A., and A.R. Robinson, 1997. Circulation and Dynamics of the Western North Atlantic, III: Forecasting the Meanders and Rings. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technolgy, 14(6), 1352 - 1365.

Lozano, C.J., A. Robinson, H.G.Arango, A.Gangopadhyay, Q.Sloan, P.J.Haley, L. Anderson, and W. Leslie, 1996. An interdisciplinary Ocean Prediction System: Assimilation Strategies and Structured Data Models, in Modern Approaches to Data Assimilation in Ocean Modeling, (Ed. P. Malanotte - Rizzoli), Elsevier Sciences.

Chao, Y., A. Gangopadhyay, F. Bryan, and W.R. Holland, 1996. Modeling the Gulf Stream System, How Far from Reality? Geophys. Res. Letts. 23(22), 3155 - 3158.