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Professor COWLES, GEOFFREY (Dartmouth)
Assistant Professor at the School of Marine Science and Technology

Phone: (508) 910-6397
Email: gcowles@umassd.edu

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

Research Interests:
Mechanical and aerospace engineering, fluid dynamics.

Education:
Ph.D., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering / Fluid Dynamics Group, Princeton University, 2001
Thesis: A Parallel Viscous Multiblock Flow Solver for Free Surface Flows Past Complex Geometries

M.A., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering / Fluid Dynamics Group, Princeton University, 1996

B.S. with Honors, Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University, 1994
Senior Project: Design and Construction of a Rigid Airfoil for a Racing Sailboat (RAFT Team)

Professional History:
Spring 2006 - Present: Assistant Instructor, Department of Fisheries Oceanography, School of Marine Science and Technology (SMAST); New Bedford, MA

Spring 2002: Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Fall 1997 - Spring 1998: Assistant Instructor and Precept Lecturer, Dept. of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Princeton University; Princeton, NJ

Current Research Support:
3/1/06 2/28/08 Rhode Island Sea Grant. Status: Current.
Modeling and observations of circulation and biochemical processes in Narragansett Bay: The Relationship between the Upper Bay and its Impacted sub - systems

10/1/07 9/30/10 NSF. Status: Current. Collaborative Research: Effects of a Warming Climate on Arctic Shelf and Basin Calanus Populations.

4/1/08 3/31/09 NOAA. Status: Current. Development of a Modeling Infrastructure for NERCOOS

2/1/08 1/31/09 WHOI Sea Grant: Current. A Measurement and Modeling Study of Waves and Currents in the Coastal Zone off of Southeastern
Massachusetts.

2/1/08 1/31/10 EPA: Statues: In Review. Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on the Potential Success of Invasive Species in Lake Superior with Application to other Large Lake Systems

2/1/08 1/31/09 KAUST/WHOI: In Review. Coastal Ocean and Atmospheric Modeling

Selected Publications:
Huret, M., J. Runge, C. Chen, G. Cowles, Q. Xu, and J. Pringle, Dispersal Modeling of Fish Early Life Stages: Sensitivity Analysis with Application to Atlantic Cod in the Western Gulf of Maine, Marine Ecology Progress Series, in press.

Chen, C., H. Huang, R. Beardsley, H. Liu, Q. Xu, and G. Cowles, A Finite - Volume Numerical Approach for Coastal Ocean Circulation Studies: Comparisons with Finite - Difference Models, Journal of Geophysical Research, in press.

Zhao, L., C. Chen, and G. Cowles, Tidal Flushing and Eddy Formation in Mount Hope Bay and Narragansett Bay: an application of FVCOM, Journal of Geophysical Research, in press.

Chen, C, R.C. Beardsley, and G. Cowles, 2006, An Unstructured Grid, Finite - Volume Coastal Ocean Model (FVCOM) System. Oceanography, 19(1), 78 - 89.

Cowles, G. and L. Martinelli, Control - Theory Based Shape Design for the Incompressible Navier - Stokes Equations, International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics, 17:499 - 514, Dec 2003.