- Nicholas Nidzieko
- Stanford University
I do most of my diving in cold, shallow, muddy estuaries along the California coast. So coming to the warm, clear waters of the Keys to run the surface crew for Kristen’s project is quite a treat. Don’t let any one here tell you that a fifteen foot day is bad visibility! To document the glory of real science, I’m making a movie of our trip.
When I’m not running around the world helping people in the EFML with their projects, I focus my time on Elkhorn Slough, a small estuary south of Santa Cruz, CA. My research focuses on how secondary circulation and turbulent mixing processes affect biogeochemical distributions in coastal estuaries. Specifically, my areas of research interest include sediment transport, estuarine nutrient fluxes, and ocean–estuarine coupling.
I currently have acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs) pinging away in the Slough while I’m playing here in Florida, and my desktop machine is running a numerical model of Elkhorn while I’m gone…
Finally, I’m a product of the UCLA dive program, one of the best scientific diver training programs anywhere. Thanks, Frank! I also miss Truckee a lot.
