I am an aquatic biogeochemist with over ten years of experience in Environmental and Earth Sciences. My research focuses on improving the understanding of the cycling of climate-relevant trace gases (e.g. CO2, CH4, N2O, CO) and their exchange fluxes across the boundaries between hydrosphere, biosphere, cryosphere and atmosphere. I am also interested in land-ocean connectivity processes through groundwater. Regionally I focus in low-oxygen environments as well as subpolar-polar marine ecosystems.

I am an aquatic biogeochemist with over ten years of experience in Environmental and Earth Sciences. My research focuses on improving the understanding of the cycling of climate-relevant trace gases (e.g. CO2, CH4, N2O, CO) and their exchange fluxes across the boundaries between hydrosphere, biosphere, cryosphere and atmosphere. I am also interested in land-ocean connectivity processes through groundwater. Regionally I focus in low-oxygen environments as well as subpolar-polar marine ecosystems.

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I use modern observations and model output to help interpret ocean processes at multiple time and spatial scales. My latest interests involve Southern Ocean and Antarctic dynamics including heat, salt and oxygen content change.

I use modern observations and model output to help interpret ocean processes at multiple time and spatial scales. My latest interests involve Southern Ocean and Antarctic dynamics including heat, salt and oxygen content change.

My research focuses on a wide variety of topics that are centered on the carbon cycle science in estuarine, coastal, and oceanic environments. Using high precision water chemistry analyses, stable isotopes, as well as modeling techniques, my research examines ocean and estuarine carbon fluxes and acidification, hydrological controls on estuarine biogeochemistry, long-term changes in ocean margin carbon dioxide levels, and hypoxia-related issues in both estuaries and the coastal ocean.

My research focuses on a wide variety of topics that are centered on the carbon cycle science in estuarine, coastal, and oceanic environments. Using high precision water chemistry analyses, stable isotopes, as well as modeling techniques, my research examines ocean and estuarine carbon fluxes and acidification, hydrological controls on estuarine biogeochemistry, long-term changes in ocean margin carbon dioxide levels, and hypoxia-related issues in both estuaries and the coastal ocean.

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Dana Savidge uses observations to examine physical oceanography, motivated by processes of interest across oceanographic disciplines. Work in the deep ocean, on the continental shelf and in intertidal saltwater marshes; in equatorial, mid-latitude and polar regimes; has examined processes ranging in scale from meters to a few hundred kilometers, minutes to seasons. The nature and effects of Gulf Stream variability have been examined in a variety of contexts, including deep ocean cyclogenesis; the nature of meandering upstream and downstream from Cape Hatteras, where the Gulf Stream separates from the continental shelf; the interaction between Gulf Stream shear and shelf edge tidal velocities; and boundary current effects on shelf circulation and shelf-open ocean exchange. Shelf and slope projects at Cape Hatteras found strong cross-shelf flows and large volumes of shelf/deep ocean exchanges correlated to shelf density gradients and Gulf Stream variability; with strong seasonal variability of shelf circulation responding to those forcing agents. At smaller scales on the shelf, Savidge has observed full depth Langmuir Circulation cells on middle to outer continental shelves, a primary driver of sediment transport. Savidge has operated high-frequency radars (beam-forming WERA systems) since 2006, with long-term operational deployments overlooking the southeast United States shelf and slope. Research dedicated radars have also been deployed overlooking intertidal marshes, demonstrating viable returns from grass-covered areas during inundation, and at Cape Hatteras to document the extremely complex and dynamic shelf circulation there.

Dana Savidge uses observations to examine physical oceanography, motivated by processes of interest across oceanographic disciplines. Work in the deep ocean, on the continental shelf and in intertidal saltwater marshes; in equatorial, mid-latitude and polar regimes; has examined processes ranging in scale from meters to a few hundred kilometers, minutes to seasons. The nature and effects of Gulf Stream variability have been examined in a variety of contexts, including deep ocean cyclogenesis; the nature of meandering upstream and downstream from Cape Hatteras, where the Gulf Stream separates from the continental shelf; the interaction between Gulf Stream shear and shelf edge tidal velocities; and boundary current effects on shelf circulation and shelf-open ocean exchange. Shelf and slope projects at Cape Hatteras found strong cross-shelf flows and large volumes of shelf/deep ocean exchanges correlated to shelf density gradients and Gulf Stream variability; with strong seasonal variability of shelf circulation responding to those forcing agents. At smaller scales on the shelf, Savidge has observed full depth Langmuir Circulation cells on middle to outer continental shelves, a primary driver of sediment transport. Savidge has operated high-frequency radars (beam-forming WERA systems) since 2006, with long-term operational deployments overlooking the southeast United States shelf and slope. Research dedicated radars have also been deployed overlooking intertidal marshes, demonstrating viable returns from grass-covered areas during inundation, and at Cape Hatteras to document the extremely complex and dynamic shelf circulation there.