Idealized biogeocehmical-physical process study model using Oceananigans, ClimaOcean, and/or OceanBioME

[vhi3u]

Hey everyone!

I'm an undergraduate researcher who has been gaining some practice using Oceananigans for my honors thesis project at university. Has been a lot of fun so far and reading through discussions here has been really helpful for my own research!

I am working on a potential research proposal where we are looking to understand the biogeochemical (i.e DIC, nutrients) evolution occurring in the Southern Ocean, and my ongoing thesis work has inspired us to maybe consider Oceananigans as a good platform to do a graduate level project on.

We'd like to define a region in the Southern Ocean avoiding extreme bathymetries, subpolar gyres, and ice-shelf interactions, and would hope to use B-SOSE (Biogeochemical Southern Ocean State Estimate) for our boundary conditions. We'd also like to use Lagrangian particle tracking as well. All of this seems a big task, but I think this would be something really fun for a PhD project.

Still fleshing out the details for the proposal itself, but I'd figure asking what is the current infrastructure of CliMA's tools to potentially carry out this project? I am especially curious of anyone's ongoing work that utilizes ClimaOcean and coupling of OceanBioME as well.

Hopefully this question isn't too vague, but I am open to any thoughts or further questions. Thanks!

[glwagner]

@jagoosw @seamanticscience @vtamsitt may be able to offer advice!