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Since Oct 2010, I have been working as a research scientist within the Aquaculture, Biotechnology & Aquatic Animal Health Section of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Center, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, NL Region.

I carry out oceanographic studies for coastal region and for aquaculture purposes by running circulation models (FVCOM) and by doing ocean observation activities.

During this period, I kept working on the operation oceanography to develop a forecast system C-NOOFS (Canada Newfoundland Operarional Oceanography Forecast System)

For this position, I was responsible for setting up the numerical model NEMO (Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean) , formerly known as OPA (Océan PArallélisé), for an operational oceanography system in the Newfoundland and Labrador waters.

The post-doctoral position consists in compiling all available oceanographic and meteorologic data at EPPE in order to use them for long-term variability in the ocean state and in meteorological conditions along the Spanish Atlantic coast. The knowledge of such variability will help in assessing the beach erosion which may have happened along that part of the Spanish coast.

In this project I am responsible for carrying out hindcast of oceanographic parameters such as wave conditions and sea surface elevations in the Mediterranean Sea. This hindcast is performed for the whole 44 years starting from 1958 up to 2001. The Mediterranean wave conditions are computed using the state-of-the-art wave model WAM (The WAMDI Group et al., 1988: The WAM Model - A third generation ocean wave prediction mode, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 18, 17775-1810) and the sea surface elevation the Hamburg Shelf Model, HAMSOM (Alvarez Fanjul et al., 1997: A description of the tides in the Eastern North Atlantic. Prog. Oceanog., 40, 217-244). Both numerica models are forced with atmospheric conditions computed by the atmospheric regional model, REMO (Jacob, D. and R. Podzum, 1997: Sensitivity studies with regional climate model REMO, Meteorol. Atmos. Phys., 63, 119-129).

My thesis was on the Transfer of water from the Subtropical Gyre into the Subpolar Gyre of the North Altanic: The Gulf Stream and its extension where I studied the vertical alignment of the Gulf Stream and the possible method by which the Gulf Stream gets extended into the Subpolar area.
On the other side, I was also responsible for the collection and maintenance of the Oceanographic database at our group of study.
At the same time, I was also interested in numerical models. I then started to study the effect of the Upwelling and the wind forcing on the Eastern boundary current of the North Atlantic gyre using a 3 layer mathematical model focusing mainly on the Eastern boundary. For those who are interested in Ocean Circulation Models, try this site from the Texas A&M University (U.S.A).

My main interest at O.D.U. was the study of the transport of larvae in estuaries. I used a mathematical model, FUNDY, to study the effect of the wind and the tides. The model, described in Lynch et al., 1982: , uses a finite element method. In this model, one can specify barotropic and baroclinic forcing to produce the circulation in the basin. Once the circulation computed, I introduce tracers and follow their trajectory in order to see how a larvae (considered as passive particle) is transported from the inlets to the estuary upstream.

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