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

• Climate dynamics
• Spiciness
• Anomalous advection
• Ocean modeling
• Polar oceanography
• Acoustic current profilers

Advisor
Niklas Schneider, International Pacific Research Center

Presentations

• Poster at 2008 AGU fall meeting, "Salinity Variability in the California Current System: A Regional Modeling Study" (with Niklas Schneider and Emanuele Di Lorenzo).
• Talk at EPOC meeting, September 2009, Victoria, British Columbia, "Generation of Low-Frequency Spiciness Variability in the Thermocline."

Teaching experience
Teaching assistant for "Introduction to Physical Oceanography" (OCN 620), fall 2008 semester. Conducted office hours, graded homeworks, filmed and edited lecture videos.

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.

Education

• 2009, M.S. oceanography, Hawaii (thesis: "Generation of Low-Frequency Spiciness Variability in the Thermocline")
• 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, Univeristy of Hawaii, Dept. of Oceanography - worked on data acquisition software for shipboard current profilers.
  Advisors: Eric Firing and Jules Hummon

Other interests
College football, Salty Dawgs, sleeping