Our Ph.D. graduate students are supported mainly by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Although candidates with an M.S. degree are preferred, candidates with a bachelor's degree are also given serious consideration as it is possible to go directly from the B.S. to the Ph.D. degree in both the Oceanography and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics graduate program. A strong background in mathematics, physics or engineering is vital. See also FSU Oceanography Graduate Studies Page for more information on pursuing a degree in Oceanography at FSU.

Current Students

	Name: Cathrine Sandal Email: sandal@ocean.fsu.edu Title: Ph.D.Student	Office: OSB 417
	Education: 1997, Cand. Mag. (B.S. degree) in Geophysics, University of Bergen 2000, Cand. Scient. (M.S. degree) in Geophysics, University of Bergen
	About: For my M.S. degree, I studied the mechanical energy budget of a semi-enclosed sea using a numerical model. Areas of oceanography that I find particularly interesting are numerical modelling, relations between model output and observations, polar regions, mesoscale oceanography, and tsunamis.
	Name: Volodymyr Zharkov Email: zharkov@ocean.fsu.edu Title: Graduate Student	Office: 446 OSB
	About: My research is concerning the generation of the rings in Agulhas current system. I use the asymptotic methods taking into account the effects of topography. Again, my aim is to investigate the interaction of eddies with the South Atlantic currents at present, and the possible connections between strong instabilities in the Atlantic water parameters and disappearance of the Agulhas rings during the Last glacial period.
	Name: Mona Behl Email: behl@ocean.fsu.edu Title: Ph.D. student	Office: OSB 417
	Education: MSc (Honors) in Physics from Panjab University, Chandigarh,India BSc (Honors) in Physics from Panjab University, Chandigarh,India
	About: My research area aims to find interconnections and interdependence of climatic variations and the ocean currents. This study will become crucial in view of the global warming threat. Therefore my research area is focused at finding orchestration between oceanic events like ocean currents, geostropic currents, surface waves, inertial oscillations, and tides that in turn shape up climatic realities like El Nino, and La Nina. This will enable us to optimize our weather predictions over a longer period of time.

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