Research Assistant
Physical Oceanography
535 Henderson Hall
Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-2700
Email: sdbren@uw.edu
Website: https://sdbrenner.github.io/
I am a PhD candidate at the School of Oceanography and the Applied Physics Lab at the University of Washington. I work under the joint supervision of Luc Rainville and Jim Thomson and study dynamic processes in the near-surface Arctic Ocean.
I am interested in how the ongoing changes in Arctic sea ice may impact atmosphere-ice-ocean interaction, and the associated climate feedback mechanisms. My primary focus is in how sea ice modulates the transfer of momentum from the atmosphere into the upper ocean. I consider this processes using a combination of in situ observations and simple theory.