Teresa K. Chereskin, Oceanographer

Present students/postdocs

• Manuel Gutierrez-Villanueva, graduate student (2016- ), PhD advisor w/Janet Sprintall
• Saulo Soares, postdoc (2017- ), Postdoc advisor w/Sarah Gille

Current Projects

• Identifying drivers of the meridional overturning circulation from observations in Drake Passage
• High-wavenumber variability of sea surface height: Evaluating sub-100-km scales

Long-term Projects

• Dynamics and transport of the ACC in Drake Passage (cDrake)
• High-resolution underway currents in Drake Passage
• California Current

Research Interests

ADCP techniques	Ekman Spiral	CalCOFI ADCP	WOCE Indian Ocean	Eastern Boundary Currents
cDrake	AAIW	Antarctic ADCP	LMG ADCP	Agulhas Current

Selected Cruises

• cDrake NBP0908 (2009, photos)
• cDrake NBP0710 (2007, movie)
• AAIW (2005 photos, 2006)
• Drake Passage ADCP program, Antarctica (2004 photos, 2003, 2000, 1999)
• Deception Island, Antarctica (2000 photos)

Past students/postdocs

• Jessica Masich, graduate student (2010-2017), postdoc (2017-2018), now at Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL)
• Yvonne Firing, graduate student (2006-2012), postdoc (2013), now at the National Oceanography Center, Southampton, UK
• Matthew Mazloff, postdoc (2008-2010), now at SIO/UCSD
• Yueng-Djern Lenn, student (2000-2006), postdoc (2006-2007), now at University of Bangor, Wales
• Peter Gay, postdoc (2006-2007), now at NAVOCEANO, Stennis Space Center
• Lisa Beal, postdoc (1999-2002), now at University of Miami
• Steven Bograd, postdoc (1998-2000), now at Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory
• Michele Morris, postdoc (1996), now at Ministry for the Environment, New Zealand

Teresa K. Chereskin
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Mail Code 0230
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0230

email: tchereskin(at)ucsd.edu