Dr Martin Saraceno is professor at Departamento de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y de los Océanos of Universidad de Buenos Aires at Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) and Principal Researcher at Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y de la Atmósfera of Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET).
Dr Saraceno is a physical oceanographer mainly interested in mesoscale and fine-scale oceanic processes, like fronts, eddies or boundary currents and exchanges between shelf and outer waters at the shelf-break front. He is PI of SWOT satellite altimetry mission and leaded several international scientific projects to study ocean currents from in-situ measurements and satellite data. He has large experience with moorings and drifters. Author of 66 publications, advisor of 6 PhD. ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5657-4420
As part of the Falkor (too) expedition “A Tale of Two Submarine Canyons”, he is studying the intrusions of the Malvinas Current into the adjacent Argentine Continental Shelf using satellite data, in-situ data to be collected by surface drifters, and moorings. He will analyze the physical dataset in close collaboration with other measurements to understand the role of the canyons and of the Malvinas Current in fertilizing the upper portion of the slope.
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