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Dave Ullman

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Dave Ullman
Assoc. Marine Research Scientist
210, Watkins
d.ullman@gso.uri.edu
401-874-6138
http://www.po.gso.uri.edu/~dave/

Educational Background

Ph.D., Coastal Oceanography
M.S., Coastal Oceanography
B.S., Mechanical Engineering
 SUNY
SUNY
Stevens Institute of Technology
 1996
1984
1981

Areas of Specialization

Research

Dave Ullman is a physical oceanographer specializing in coastal oceanography from remote sensing and in situ observational perspectives. He is interested in the large scale dynamics of ocean fronts as well as the small scale mixing processes that occur at fronts.

Students

Michelle Aleszczyk
 M.S.
 2008

Publications:

Kremer, J. N., J. M. P. Vaudrey, D. S. Ullman, D. L. Bergondo, N. LaSota, C. Kincaid, D. L. Codiga, and M. J. Brush (2010), Simulating property exchange in estuarine ecosystem models at ecologically appropriate scales, Ecological Modelling, 221, 1080-1088, doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.12.014.

Mau, J.-C., D.-P. Wang, D. S. Ullman, and D. L. Codiga (2008), Model of the Long Island Sound outflow: Comparison with year-long HF radar and Doppler current observations, Continental Shelf Research, 28, 1791-1799.

Ullman, D. S. , P. C. Cornillon, and Z. Shan (2007), On the characteristics of subtropical fronts in the North Atlantic , Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, C01010, doi: 10.1029/2006JC003601.

Ullman, D. S., J. O'Donnell, J. Kohut, T. Fake, and A. Allen (2006), Trajectory prediction using HF radar surface currents: Monte Carlo simulations of predicition uncertainties, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, C12005, doi: 10.1029/2006JCoo3715.

Ullman, D. S. and D. L. Codiga (2004), Seasonal variation of a coastal jet in the Long Island Sound outflow region based on HF radar and Doppler current observations, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, C07S06, doi:10.1029/2002JC001660.

Presentations:

A Slope Water Intrusion over the Southern New England Continental Shelf (2010), Mid-Atlantic Bight Physical Oceanography and Meteorology Workshop, Oct. 26-27, Hoboken, NJ.

Mid-Shelf Buoyancy Fronts: Hydrographic and Velocity Variability and Across-Shelf Heat Fluxes in the New York Bight (2010), AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, Feb. 22-26, Portland, OR.

Observations of the Structure and Dynamics of Wintertime Mid-Shelf Fronts (2008), Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas Conference, Aug. 26-29, Liverpool, UK.

Surface Circulation in Block Island Sound and Adjacent Areas (2008), Sound Connections: The Science of Rhode Island and Block Island Sounds, 7th Annual Ronald C. Baird Sea Grant Science Symposium, Oct. 20, Block Island, RI.

Enhancement of Vertical Mixing at a Constriction in a Partially Mixed Estuary (2007), Estuarine Research Federation. 19th Biennial Conference, Nov. 4-8, Providence, RI.