Cidney Howard
Graduate Student OSU
Bio-optics group

My thesis work is actually in the Southern Ocean, examining the spatial structure of physical and bio-optical distributions across the Antarctic Polar Front. Mesoscale spatial variability in the Polar Front's position (meandering) and dynamics (upwelling and downwelling) interacts with variability in light and nutrients in interesting ways. But I jumped at the chance to join this cruise off the Oregon coast, because I love being out at sea and really can not get enough of it. Popcorn is a very important aspect of life at sea for me.

One of the things I enjoy doing with my free time on shore is volunteer outreach to physical oceanographers, trying to tear them away from their computers and walk across the street for some Thai food occasionally.