BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

 

ISAAC GINIS

Professor of Oceanography

Graduate School of Oceanography

University of Rhode Island

Narragansett, RI 02882

Tel: (401) 874‑6484; Fax: (401) 874‑6728

e‑mail: iginis@gso.uri.edu

      WWW: www.po.gso.uri.edu/Numerical/ig

 

Professional Preparation:

 

Kabardino-Balkarian State University, Nalchik, Russia      Mathematics         M.S.            1977

Institute of Experimental Meteorology, Obninsk, Russia    Geophysics           Ph.D.           1986

 

Appointments:

 

2003-present     Professor of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island

1998-2003          Associate Professor of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island

1993-1998          Associate Marine Research Scientist, Adjunct Professor of Oceanography

                          University of Rhode Island

1990-1993         Visiting Research Scientist, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA

                         Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

1980-1989          Lecture, Adjunct  Professor, Department of Physics

                         Kabardino-Balkarian State University, Nalchik, Russia

1977-1980          Research Associate, 

 Institute of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics,

                         Kabardino-Balkarian State University, Nalchik, Russia

 

 

Synergistic Activities

 

I’ve been leading the effort toward improvements of the GFDL/URI coupled hurricane model for the NOAA’s National Weather Service. This work involves collaboration between our research group at URI and scientists at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL). Our group has made a successful conversion of a research coupled hurricane-ocean research model to a fully automated real-time prediction system. This significant technological and computer programming effort has resulted in implementation of the GFDL/URI coupled hurricane model to operational forecasting at NCEP in 2001. I was named a "2002 Environmental Hero" by NOAA in recognition of my contributions in the field of hurricane forecast research.

 

We continue to be responsible for maintaining and improving the coupled hurricane operational forecast system at NCEP. A number of major improvements have been made to the operation model for the 2002-05 hurricane seasons.

 

I am being involved in the development of the next generation of the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model for hurricane application at the National Weather Service. This is a joint effort between NCAR, NCEP and a number of university scientists. Our group focuses on developing the ocean and wave components of the coupled WRF system.

 

I have developed several numerical modeling courses for URI that cover various numerical methods applied for solving the fundamental equations governing atmospheric and oceanic
motions, marine geophysics, and biophysics.

Research Collaborators within Last 48 Months

M. Bender, R. Tuleya, T. Marchok (GFDL/NOAA), A. Khain, E. Morozovsky (Hebrew University), G. Sutyrin, L. Rothstein, T. Hara, Il-Ju Moon, B. Thomas (URI), A. Falkovich, H. Tolman, N. Surgi, W. Shen (NCEP/NOAA), E. Walsh (NOAA/ETL and NASA/GSFC), K. Emanuel (MIT), E. Andreas (Cold Regions Research Engineering Laboratory).

 

Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows, Last Five Years

Sergey Frolov,  Evan Robertson, Minoru Kadota, Alexander Shybanov, Shannon Davis, Yalin Fan, Richard Yablonsky, Clark Rowley, Weixing Shen, Ray Richardson, Biju Thomas, Il-Ju Moon.

 

Total Graduate Students Advised:  7

 

Total Postdocs Sponsored: 5