UVic Ocean Physics 
My research interests have always been in the area of small-scale turbulence in the ocean and its effects on larger scales. I first made measurements of the dissipation scales of ocean turbulence with small-scale sensors moved both horizontally via submersible and towed body, and vertically via microscale profilers. Frustrated by the turbulent cascade, hence the lack of directly observable connection between microscales and the ocean processes generating them, I eventually moved to the use of acoustics to make direct measurements of the large, energy-containing scales of turbulence, in conjunction with the forcing conditions that generate them. I am presently focussing on turbulence in the surface layer of the ocean, specifically the question of whether it is possible to predict the energy of large scale turbulence in this layer knowing only the value of surface forcings due to wind/waves and/or convection