Héctor Hito Andrés SEPÚLVEDA ALLENDE
      University of Concepcion
      Geophysics Department
      Casilla 160-C, Concepcion - CHILE
      (56 41) 207280 (phone)
      andres@dgeo.udec.cl                                                


(en español)

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• Education:
  
  • Fundacion Andes Chilean Postdoctoral Fellow, 2004
    Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA.
  • PhD in Physical Oceanography, 2004
    Old Dominion University, USA.
  • Physics, Bachelor of Science, 1996
    University of Chile, CHILE.
    
  
  
• Current Research Interests:
  
  Oceanographic research in coastal regions, involving field work and the use of data assimilation techniques.
  Integrate measurements into numerical models of physical dynamics or physical-biological interactions.
  
  
  • MM5: Numerical Weather Forecasting
  • FVCOM: Finite Volume Coastal Ocean Model
  • Rio de la Plata Estuary (Argentina-Uruguay)
  • Global Text Project
  
  
• Recent Articles
  
  • "Observations of tidal and subtidal flow in the Rio de la Plata Estuary"
    H.H. Sepúlveda, A. Valle-Levinson, and M.B. Framiñan
    Continental Shelf Research, 24(4-5), pp 509-525, 2004.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2003.12.002
    
  • "The Humboldt Current Systemm of Northern and Central Chile Oceanographic Processes,
    Ecological Interactions and Socioeconomic Feedback"
    Thiel, M. et al, Oceanography and Marine Biology. An Annual Review, 45, pp 195-344, 2007
  • "Tidal variations of flow convergence, shear and stratification at the Rio de la Plata estuary turbidity front"
    Framinan, M. B., A. Valle-Levinson, H. H. Sepulveda, and O. Brown
    J. Geophys. Res.,113, doi:10.1029/2006JC004038, C08035. (2008)

References:

• Dr. Robert Beardsley (Supervisor)
  rbeardsley@whoi.edu
  
• Dr. Arnoldo Valle-Levinson (Advisor)
  arnoldo@ccpo.odu.edu
  

Erdös Number: 5

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Bag of Tools:

• Acoustic Current Doppler Profilers (the binocular).
• Octave (the hammer).
  • Local brew.
• OTIS - Tidal Inversion Software (the blender).
• Coastline Extractor (NOAA).
• Seafloor Topography (Smith and Sandwell).
• World Ocean Atlas Series (NOAA).
• Articles database (BibTeX).
  • Golden list of papers

Personal Interests

• Birds of Chile (In Spanish).
• Ships-in-bottles
• Sepulveda Family Genealogy
• Oceanographic Chapter of the
  Riotous Tumultuous Assembly of Foreign Seamen,
  PostDocs, Students, and Other Persons of Mean and Vile Condition

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Last Update: August 17th, 2005