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Surface circulation of the ocean (<15 m water depth) is primarily driven by winds and is a conduit for the transport of natural and anthropogenic buoyant material such as eggs and larvae of different organisms, plastics and dispersion of oil. UWA hasd deployed ~150 surface drifters in the the South-East Tropical Indian Ocean (SETIO), located between the Australian mainland and the Indonesian Archipelago.  This project will use this dataset inclusing additional drifter deployments to undestand the dynamics of the surface currents and their forcing mechanisms.

UWA

Prof Charitha Pattiaratchi

background in ocean currents and experience with using Matlab or python

The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is a program of independent, supervised research that is assessed solely on the basis of a thesis, sometimes including a creative work component, that is examined externally. The work presented for a PhD must be a substantial and original contribution to scholarship, demonstrating mastery of the subject of interest as well as an advance in that field of knowledge. 

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