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Katja Fennel

Dalhousie University

Department of Oceanography

1355 Oxford Street
Halifax, NS  B3H 4R2  Canada

Katja.Fennel@Dal.Ca

Project List:

Three-Dimensional Gulf Circulation and Biogeochemical Processes Unveiled by State-of-the-Art Profiling Float Technology and Data Assimilative Ocean Models

Year 6-8 Investigator Grants (RFP-V)Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Task Co-Lead, Task Co-Lead

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 4

2020

Gordon, C., Fennel, K., Richards, C., Shay, L. K., & Brewster, J. K. (2020). Can ocean community production and respiration be determined by measuring high-frequency oxygen profiles from autonomous floats? Biogeosciences, 17(15), 4119–4134.

2019

Shay, L. K., Brewster, J., Jaimes, B., Gordon, C., Fennel, K., Furze, P., et al. (2019). Physical and Biochemical Structure Measured by APEX-EM Floats. 2019 IEEE/OES Twelfth Current, Waves and Turbulence Measurement (CWTM), , 1–6.
Yu, L., Fennel, K., Wang, B., Laurent, A., Thompson, K. R., & Shay, L. K. (2019). Evaluation of nonidentical versus identical twin approaches for observation impact assessments: an ensemble-Kalman-filter-based ocean assimilation application for the Gulf of Mexico. Ocean Sci., 15(6), 1801–1814.

2018

Yu, L., Fennel, K., Bertino, L., Gharamti, M. E., & Thompson, K. R. (2018). Insights on multivariate updates of physical and biogeochemical ocean variables using an Ensemble Kalman Filter and an idealized model of upwelling. Ocean Modelling, 126, 13–28.

Conference Presentations - 17

2019

Fennel, K. (2019). Challenges and opportunities for biogeochemical prediction. In OceanPredict 2019. Halifax, Canada : 05/06/19-05/10/19.
Gordon, C., Fennel, K., Shay, L. K., Brewster, J., & Rudzin, J. (2019). Elucidating Drivers of Surface Variations in Dissolved Oxygen observed by autonomous floats in the Gulf of Mexico. In OceanPredict 2019. Halifax, Canada : 05/06/19-05/10/19.
Shay, L. K., Brewster, J., Jaimes, B., Furze, P., Fargher, H., Gordon, C., et al. (2019). Physical and Biochemical Response to a Cold Front Using Floats. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2019. New Orleans, LA : 02/04/19-02/07/19.
Shay, L. K., Brewster, J., Jaimes, B., Gordon, C., Fennel, K., Furze, P., et al. (2019). Physical and biochemical variability from APEX-EM Floats. In 2019 IEEE/OES Twelfth Current, Waves and Turbulence Measurement. San Diego, CA : 03/10/19-03/13/19.
Shay, L. K., Furze, P., Fargher, H., Brewster, J., Jaimes, B., Gordon, C., et al. (2019). Near-inertial current response to forcing events measured by APEX-EM Floats. In Teledyne Marine Technology Workshop. San Diego, CA : 10/06/19-10/09/19.
Wang, B., Fennel, K., Yu, L., & Gordon, C. (2019). Tradeoffs between satellite surface and Argo profile observations when optimizing a biogeochemical model for the Gulf of Mexico. In OceanPredict 2019. Halifax, Canada : 05/06/19-05/10/19.
Yu, L., Fennel, K., Wang, B., Laurent, A., Thompson, K., & Shay, L. (2019). Hindcasting the subsurface oil plume after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. In OceanPredict 2019. Halifax, Canada : 05/06/19-05/10/19.

2018

Fennel, K., Atamanchuk, D., Azetsu-Scott, K., Babin, M., Bossk, E., Bushinsky, S., et al. (2018). Biogeochemical Argo as an essential component of a North Atlantic Ocean Observing System. In CMOS 2018 Halifax. Halifax, Canada : 06/10/18-06/14/18.
Gordon, C., Fennel, K., Kuhn, A., Shay, L. K., & Brewster, J. (2018). Are surface chlorophyll measurements sufficient to accurately estimate primary production in the Gulf of Mexico. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2018. Portland, OR : 02/11/18-02/16/18: Poster.
Gordon, C., Fennel, K., Wang, B., Shay, L. K., & Brewster, J. (2018). Observing biogeochemical processes in the Gulf of Mexico using a set of uniquely-equipped autonomous floats. In CMOS 2018 Halifax. Halifax, Canada : 06/10/18-06/14/18.
Shay, L., Furze, P., Fargher, H., Brewster, J., Jaimes, B., Fennel, K., et al. (2018). APEX-EM float measurements of physical and biochemical variability. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2018. Portland, OR : 02/11/18-02/16/18: Poster.
Shay, L., Furze, P., Fargher, H., Brewster, J., Jaimes, B., Fennel, K., et al. (2018). APEX-EM float performance measuring ocean structure. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.
Wang, B., Fennel, K., Yu, L., Gordon, C., Zong, H., & He, R. (2018). A data-assimilative physical-biogeochemical model for the Gulf of Mexico. In CMOS 2018 Halifax. Halifax, Canada : 06/10/18-06/14/18: Poster.
Yu, L., Fennel, K., Laurent, A., Zong, H., He, R., Kang, H., et al. (2018). Simulating deep-water hydrocarbon plumes with a data-assimilative model of the Gulf of Mexico. In CMOS 2018 Halifax. Halifax, Canada : 06/10/18-06/14/18.

2017

He, R., Zong, H., Xue, Z., Fennel, K., Tian, H., Cai, W. - J., et al. (2017). Predicting marine physical-biogeochemical variabilities in the Gulf of Mexico and southeastern U.S. shelf sea. In 2017 AGU Fall Meeting. New Orleans, LA : 12/11/17-12/15/17.
Yu, L., Fennel, K., Laurent, A., Zong, H., & He, R. (2017). Hindcasting and forecasting the dynamics of deep hydrocarbon plumes: Results from a data-assimilative model. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.

2016

Shay, L. K., He, R., Fennel, K., & Furze, P. (2016). 3-Dimensional Gulf Circulation and Biogeochemical Processes Unveiled by State-of-the-Art Profiling Floats and Data Assimilative Ocean Models. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2016. Tampa, FL : 02/01/16-02/04/16: Poster.