Hawaiʻi Ocean | The Ocean Mixing and Acoustics Lab

Research in the Hawaiian archipelago focuses on how islands, currents, and eddies structure the upper ocean across a range of scales. Two active research threads are running in parallel:

Eddies and Transition Zone

How lee eddies and remotely generated mesoscale features structure the ocean transition layer between the mixed layer and interior.

Seamounts

Flow-topography interactions at seamounts and their role in generating mixing, internal waves, and biological aggregations.