OCE-PRF Track 1 (Broadening Participation): Near-Inertial Oscillations on the West Florida Shelf in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico

沿海海洋的近惯性振荡（NIO）可能在墨西哥湾东部，特别是西佛罗里达陆架（WFS）的营养物质和颗粒的垂直混合和水平分散中发挥重要作用。有证据表明，在WFS上，温跃层的深度在一天的时间内呈现垂直迁移，这表明NIO模式结构可能调节了温跃层的深度，并可能影响了温跃层上生物群的分布，使得NIO对WFS上的沿海海洋生态具有潜在的重要意义。该奖项将支持一名博士后研究NIO在WFS上的动态。该研究员将在Robert H. Weisberg博士的赞助下在南佛罗里达大学海洋科学学院（USF-CMS）工作，并在Dmitry Dukhovskoy博士的共同赞助下在佛罗里达州立大学海洋-大气预测研究中心（FSU-COAPS）工作。她还将通过佛罗里达-乔治亚州路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LS-AMP）在FSU指导一名暑期本科生，为海洋学女孩营地开发一个物理海洋学实验室，增加一套生物地球化学实验室，并为Spoonbill海洋科学碗贡献物理海洋学问题。PI将调查NIO在西佛罗里达大陆架（WFS）上的运动学，并提供其空间和时间变化的完整文件。随后将对过程的动力学进行彻底的调查，特别是湍流和底部应力如何进入力平衡并影响该地区NIO生成的条件和机制。最后，将评估近惯性运动在WFS混合中的作用。

Near-Inertial Oscillations (NIO) in the coastal ocean may play a significant role in vertical mixing and horizontal dispersionof nutrients and particles in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, particularly on the West Florida Shelf (WFS). There is evidence that on the WFS the depth of the thermocline appears to migrate vertically over the course of a day, suggestive that a NIO mode structure may be modulating the thermocline depth and possibly affecting the distribution of biota across the thermocline, making the NIO potentially important to the coastal ocean ecology on the WFS. This award will support a Postdoctoral Fellow to investigate the dynamics of NIO on the WFS. The Fellow will work at the College of Marine Science at the University of South Florida (USF-CMS) with the sponsorship of Dr. Robert H. Weisberg, and in the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies at the Florida State University (FSU-COAPS) with the co-sponsorship of Dr. Dmitry Dukhovskoy.She will also mentor a summer undergraduate student through the Florida-Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LS-AMP) at FSU, develop a physical oceanography lab to add to a set of bio-geochemical labs for the Oceanography Camp for Girls and contribute physical oceanography questions for the Spoonbill Ocean Sciences Bowl.The PI will investigate the kinematics of NIO on the West Florida Shelf (WFS) with a full documentation of their spatial and temporal variations. This will be followed by a thorough investigation of the dynamics of the processes, particularly, how turbulence and bottom stress enter into the force balances and affect the conditions and mechanisms of generation of NIO in the region. Finally, the role of near-inertial motions in mixing on the WFS will be assessed.