Kathleen Donohue
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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
Kathleen Donohue teaches OCG 613 Waves.Students
Penelope Howe
Amy Fearing
M.S.
Ph.D Candidate
2008
Publications:
Howe, P. and K.A. Donohue, and D. Watts, 2008. Stream-coordinate structure and variability of the Kuroshio Extension. submitted to Deep-Sea Res.
Park J.-H., D. R. Watts, K. A. Donohue, S. R. Jayne,2008. A comparison of in situ bottom pressure array measurements with GRACE estimates in the Kuroshio Extension, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L17601, doi:10.1029/2008GL034778.
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.


