Tom Kilpatrick

Collecting hydrographic data in the Antarctic Circle, I6S cruise
(photo by Brett Longworth)

Graduate Student
University of Hawaii
Department of Oceanography / IPRC

Email: thomaski@hawaii.edu

Research interests

• Stochastic climate models
• Spiciness
• Anomalous advection
• Numerical modeling of the ocean and atmosphere
• Polar oceanography
• Acoustic current profilers

Advisor
Niklas Schneider, International Pacific Research Center

Publications

• Kilpatrick, T., N. Schneider, and E. Di Lorenzo, 2011: Generation of low-frequency spiciness variability in the thermocline. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 41, 365-377, doi:10.1175/2010JPO4443.1.
• Kilpatrick, T., 2009: Generation of low-frequency spiciness variability in the thermocline. M.S. thesis, University of Hawaii, 45 pp.

Education

• 2009, M.S. oceanography, Hawaii
• 2006, B.S. mathematics, MIT
• 2000-2001, non-degree student, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Research experience

• 2004, Summer Student Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - studied internal tide off of Martha's Vineyard pdf
  Advisor: Jim Lerczak
• 2005, University of Hawaii, Department of Oceanography - worked on data acquisition software for shipboard current profilers.
  Advisors: Eric Firing and Jules Hummon
• 2006-present, University of Hawaii, Department of Oceanography - graduate assistant.

Field experience
2008 CLIVAR I6S cruise (see above photo). Responsible for lowered acoustic Doppler current profiler (LADCP) measurements of the awesome currents in the Southern Ocean.

Other interests
College football, Salty Dawgs, sleeping