Daniel Codiga

Daniel L. Codiga

Assoc. Marine Research Scientist

Adjunct Professor

213A Watkins Bldg

d.codiga@gso.uri.edu

401-874-6212

http://home.comcast.net/~dan.codiga/

Educational Background

Ph.D. Oceanography
M.S. Oceanography
B.S. Applied Physics

University of Washington
University of Washington
University of California Davis

1996
1991
1987

Areas of Specialization

Research

Dan Codiga focuses primarily on estuarine, coastal, and shelf systems, with emphasis on their physical oceanography and fluid dynamics. A particular interest is flow impacted by continuous density stratification, and processes that determine vertical structure of currents, hydrographic properties, and water-borne materials. His main research approach is analysis of observations from moored instruments and ship-based surveys. He also has experience with real-time ocean observing systems, remote sensing, and rotating-table laboratory experiments. His recent work includes cross-disciplinary analyses of factors affecting water quality and fish habitat in estuaries, as motivated by the need for results applicable to resource management such as development of forecasting indices.

Outreach

"Fresher Over Saltier: Stratification and Hypoxia in Narragansett Bay", Rhode Island Coastweeks public lecture, October 2007.

Publications:

Codiga, D.L., H.E. Stoffel, C.F. Deacutis, S. Kiernan, and C.A. Oviatt, 2009. Narragansett Bay hypoxic event characteristics based on fixed-site monitoring network time series: Intermittency, geographic distribution, spatial synchronicity, and interannual variability. Estuaries and Coasts, 32:621-641, DOI 10.1007/s12237-009-9165-9.

Codiga, D.L. and D.A. Aurin, 2007. Residual circulation in eastern Long Island Sound: observed transverse-vertical structure and exchange transport. Cont. Shelf Res., 27, 103-116.

Codiga, D.L., 2005. Interplay of wind forcing and buoyant discharge off Montauk Point: Seasonal changes in velocity structure and a coastal front. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 35(6), 1068‚Äì1085.

Codiga, D.L., J.A. Rice, P.S. Baxley, and D. Hebert, 2005. Networked acoustic modems for real-time data telemetry from distributed subsurface instruments in the coastal ocean: Application to array of bottom-mounted ADCPs. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech. 22, 704-720.

Codiga, D.L. and L.V. Rear, 2004. Observed tidal currents outside Block Island Sound: Offshore decay and effects of estuarine outflow. J. Geophys. Res.109, C07S05, doi:10.1029/2003JC001804.

Codiga, D.L., D.P. Renouard, and A.M. Fincham, 1999. Experiments on waves trapped over the continental slope and shelf in a continuously stratified rotating ocean, and their incidence on a canyon. J. Mar. Res., 57, 585-612.

Codiga, D.L. and C.C. Eriksen, 1997. Observations of low-frequency circulation and amplified subinertial tidal currents at Cobb Seamount. J. Geophys. Res., 102, 22993-23007.

Presentations:

Codiga, D.L. and C.K. Bryan, 2009. "Relating tidal cycles in shear and turbulent overturns to residual flow: Observations from eastern Long Island Sound", Poster, Gordon Research Conference on Coastal Ocean Circulation, New London, NH.

Codiga, D.L. and D.A. Aurin, 2008. "Lateral structure and daily to seasonal variability of eastern Long Island Sound near-surface temperature, salinity, and chlorophyll", Long Island Sound Research Conference, New London, CT.

Codiga, D.L., 2008. "Circulation in Block Island Sound, Rhode Island Sound, and adjacent waters, with emphasis on subsurface flows", Invited, 7th Annual Ronald C. Baird Sea Grant Science Symposium: Sound Connections, The Science of Rhode Island and Block Island Sounds, Block Island, RI.

Codiga, D.L., 2007. "Transferable, general models for evolving stratification and hypoxia: an empirical input-output approach (Narragansett Bay CHRP)", Estuarine Research Federation Annual Meeting, Providence, RI.

Codiga, D.L., 2004. "Comparing factors (mostly physical) that impact oxygen dynamics in Long Island Sound and Chesapeake Bay", Invited, Sea Grant Workshop on Oxygen Dynamics in Chesapeake Bay, Adelphi, MD.