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mprater

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Mark Prater
210 Watkins
401-874-6512

Educational Background

Ph.D., Oceanography
M.S., Civil Engineering
B.S., Civil Engineering
University of Washington
Ohio State University
Ohio State University
1992
1980
1978

Areas of Specialization

Research

Mark Prater is a physical oceanographer, presently specializing in Lagrangian measurement techniques, the North Atlantic Current circulation from both observational and modeling perspectives, deep convection processes in the Labrador Sea, secondary circulation in shelfbreak fronts, and flow over sills.

Publications:

Luo, Y., M. D. Prater, E. G. Durbin, and L. Rothstein, 2006: Changes in the northwest Atlantic circulation for the 1992-1995 high NAO period from a numerical model. Continental Shelf Research, 26, 1617-1635. doi:10.1016/j.csr.2006.05.006.

Prater, M. D., and T. Rossby, 2005: Observations of the Faroe Bank Channel Overflow using bottom-following RAFOS floats. Deep-Sea Research II, 52 (3-4) 481-494. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2004.12.009.

Rossby, T. and M. D. Prater, 2005: On variations in static stability along Lagrangian trajectories. Deep Sea Research Part II, 52(3-4), 465-479. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2004.12.003.

Luo, Y., H.-M. Zhang, M. D. Prater, and L. Rothstein, 2003: Warm water pathways, transports and transformations in the northwestern North Atlantic and their modifications by cold air outbreaks. Journal of Geophysical Research, vol 108, doi:10.1029/2002JC001442.

Prater, M.D., 2002: Eddies in the Labrador Sea as observed by profiling RAFOS floats and remote sensing. Journal of Physical Oceanography, vol 32, pages 411-427.

Presentations:

A Lagrangian study of pathways and mixing along the Iceland Faroe Front and through the southern Norwegian Sea: motivation and preliminary results. Ocean Sciences Meeting, Feb 20-24, Honolulu, HI (2006). (M. Prater, T. Rossby, and H. Søiland)

Mixing and circulation at the New England Shelfbreak During NESPEX from Coastal Ocean Lagrangian (COOL) Floats. Ocean Sciences Meeting, Jan. 26-30, Portland, OR (2004). (M. Prater and D. Hebert)

Lagrangian Measurements of the Faroe Bank Channel Overflow. Ocean Sciences Meeting, Feb. 11-15, Honolulu, HI (2002). (M. Prater)

Observations of Deep Convection in the Labrador Sea using RAFOS floats. Ocean Sciences Meeting, Feb. 10-14, San Diego, CA (1998). (M. Prater and T. Rossby)


History

Member for
4 years 13 weeks