<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_-3064614206373389415WordSection1"><br><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><img width="1017" height="115" style="width:10.5937in;height:1.1979in" id="m_-3064614206373389415Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D3A3DE.7CF4C6C0" alt="cid:image001.jpg@01D3A3DE.7CF4C6C0"></span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">DATE:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Friday, March 23, 2018</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">TITLE:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">  </span><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Exploring and Capturing the Dynamics of<br>Ocean-estuarine Interactions Across Multiple Scales<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">TIME:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">3<span style="color:black">:30PM</span></span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">LOCATION:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> <b> </b></span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">GMCS 314</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">SPEAKER:</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">  </span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Sarah Giddings</span></b> <b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">, Assistant Professor<br>Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">ABSTRACT:</span><u></u><u></u></p><h2><span class="m_-3064614206373389415event-description"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Connectivity between the coastal ocean and estuaries as well as between adjacent estuaries via river plumes can impact the physics as well as the biology of these coastal systems. For example, rivers and estuaries play a critical role in the delivery of terrigenous material (e.g., sediment, larvae, contaminants) and freshwater to the coastal ocean; the latter creating buoyancy fluxes that drive coastal circulation. Conversely the ocean typically delivers high density, nutrient rich, oxygen poor water into estuaries strongly impacting estuarine productivity and dynamics. Here we use high resolution numerical simulations to explore dynamics within estuaries and buoyant plumes across a range of spatial and temporal scales: ranging from the interaction of small discharge plumes with the surfzone to the impact of large plumes on the shelf and beyond. Some discussion of how these coastal systems might respond to a changing climate will be included. The ability to properly capture the dynamics of ocean-estuarine interactions within numerical simulations across a range of scales, including their representation within global climate models and coupling with biogeochemical models, will be explored.</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-f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<p>Jose E. Castillo  Ph.D.</p><p>Director / Professor </p>
<p>Computational Science Research Center</p>
<p>5500 Campanile Dr</p>
<p>San Diego State University</p>
<p>San Diego CA 92182-1245</p>
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