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Kathleen Donohue

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Kathleen A. Donohue
Assoc. Professor of Oceanography
216 Watkins
kdonohue@gso.uri.edu
401 874 6615
http://www.po.gso.uri.edu/dynamics

Educational Background

Ph.D., Oceanography
B.S., Applied Mathematics
 University of Rhode Island
Brown University
 1996
1988

Areas of Specialization

Research

Kathleen Donohue is a physical oceanographer whose research interests include describing the global ocean velocity structure with particular focus on western boundary and subpycnocline current regimes utilizing acoustic Doppler current profilers and hydrographic data sets, data-model comparisons, and numerical models to provide insight into ocean dynamics.

Teaching

OCG 613 Waves.

Outreach

Co-Principal Investigator on the NSF-funded SURFO (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Oceanography) program.

Students

Penelope Howe
Amy Fearing
Stefanie Zamorski
Jessica Worst
 M.S.
M.S.
M.S.
M.S.
 2008

Publications:

Chereskin, T., K. A. Donohue, D. R. Watts, K. Tracey, Y. Firing and A. Cutting, 2009. Strong bottom currents and cyclogenesis in Drake Passage. In review Geophys. Res. Lett.

Donohue, K. A., D. R. Watts, K. Tracey, A. D. Greene, and M. Kennelly, 2009. Mapping circulation in the Kuroshio Extension with an array of Current and Pressure recording Inverted Echo Sounders. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol. (in press).

Howe, P. and K.A. Donohue, and D. Watts, 2009. Stream-coordinate structure and variability of the Kuroshio Extension. Deep-Sea Res. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2009.03.007.

McCartney, M.S. and K.A. Donohue, 2007. A cyclonic gyre in the Atlantic Australian Basin. Progress in Oceanography, 75:675-750

Rossby, T., C. Flagg, and K.A. Donohue, 2005. Interannual variations in upper-ocean transport by the Gulf Stream and adjacent waters between New Jersey and Bermuda. J. Mar. Res., 63, 203-226.

Donohue, K.A. and J. Toole, 2003. A near-synoptic survey of the Southwest Indian Ocean, Deep-Sea Res., 50, 1893-1931.

Presentations:

Howe, P.J., K. A. Donohue and D.R. Watts, 2008. Mean Stream-coordinate structure of the Kuroshio Extension first meander trough. Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando, Florida.

Donohue, K.A and D.R. Watts, 2006. Full Depth Current Fields over the Slope in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, January 2007, Information Transfer Meeting, Mineral Management Service, New Orleans.

Donohue, K.D., D.R. Watts and K.L. Tracey, 2006. Kuroshio Extension meanders and abyssal Eddies, European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna Austria, invited.

K.A. Donohue and M.S. McCartney, 2002. A deep cyclonic gyre in the Australian-Antarctic Basin. AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting.

K.A. Donohue, E. Firing, G.D. Rowe, A. Ishida, and H. Mitsudera, 2000. Comparison Between Observed and Modeled Pacific Equatorial Subsurface Countercurrents. AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting.