C4POCollaboratory for Physical Oceanography

Publications

24 publications. Lab members in bold; every entry links to the paper of record.

Preprints

  • Ferris, L. & Gong, D. (2026). Overturning instability in forced ageostrophic oceanic flows. arXiv:2605.10951. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2605.10951
  • Ferris, L. & Gong, D. (2024). Damping effects of viscous dissipation on growth of symmetric instability. arXiv:2406.16818. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2406.16818

2026

  • Shapiro, J., Ferris, L., Kassis, P., Lueck, R., Merrifield, S. & St. Laurent, L. (2026). Near real-time processing and telemetry of turbulent dissipation rate estimates by autonomous underwater gliders. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. doi:10.1175/jtech-d-25-0058.1

2025

  • Ferris, L., Gong, D. & Klinck, J. (2025). Topographic forcing of submesoscale instability in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Frontiers in Marine Science, 12. doi:10.3389/fmars.2025.1612637
  • Gong, D., Von Oppeln-Bronikowski, N., Ferris, L., Boone, W., Slater, J. & Bourdon, R. (2025). Next-Generation Uncrewed Surface Vehicles with Autonomous Launch and Recovery Systems for Gliders and Floats. OCEANS 2025 Brest, 01–10. doi:10.1109/oceans58557.2025.11104531

2024

  • Lefcheck, J., Orth, R., Fodrie, F., Gong, D., Faulkner, M., Laumann, K. & Patrick, C. (2024). Tropicalization of mid-western Atlantic coastal bays by pinfish Lagodon rhomboides: a combined ecological and oceanographic perspective. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 748, 137–148. doi:10.3354/meps14705

2023

  • Book, J. W., Miller, M. D., Beaird, N. L., Barron, C., Edwards, C. R., Edwards, J. R., Gong, D., Lawrence, A., Lynch, S. D., Miles, T., Osborne, J. & Slater, J. (2023). Predictions of AcousticS with Smart Experimental Networks of GlidERS (PASSENGERS). OCEANS 2023 - MTS/IEEE U.S. Gulf Coast, 1–7. doi:10.23919/oceans52994.2023.10337217

2022

  • Ferris, L., Gong, D., Merrifield, S. & Laurent, L. S. (2022). Contamination of Finescale Strain Estimates of Turbulent Kinetic Energy Dissipation by Frontal Physics. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 39, 619–640. doi:10.1175/jtech-d-21-0088.1
  • Ferris, L., Gong, D., Clayson, C. A., Merrifield, S., Shroyer, E. L., Smith, M. & Laurent, L. S. (2022). Shear Turbulence in the High-Wind Southern Ocean Using Direct Measurements. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52, 2325–2341. doi:10.1175/jpo-d-21-0015.1
  • Wang, H., Gong, D., Friedrichs, M. A. M., Harris, C. K., Miles, T., Yu, H. & Zhang, Y. (2022). A Cycle of Wind-Driven Canyon Upwelling and Downwelling at Wilmington Canyon and the Evolution of Canyon-Upwelled Dense Water on the MAB Shelf. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9. doi:10.3389/fmars.2022.866075

2021

  • Miles, T. N., Zhang, D., Foltz, G. R., Zhang, J. A., Meinig, C., Bringas, F., Triñanes, J., Le Hénaff, M., Aristizabal Vargas, M. F., Coakley, S., Edwards, C. R., Gong, D., Todd, R. E., Oliver, M. J., Wilson, W. D., Whilden, K., Kirkpatrick, B., Chardon-Maldonado, P., Morell, J. M., Hernandez, D., Kuska, G., Stienbarger, C. D., Bailey, K., Zhang, C., Glenn, S. M. & Goni, G. J. (2021). Uncrewed Ocean Gliders and Saildrones Support Hurricane Forecasting and Research. Oceanography, 34, 78–81. doi:10.5670/oceanog.2021.supplement.02-28

2020

  • Ferris, L. (2020). ocean_data_tools: A MATLAB toolbox for interacting with bulk freely-available oceanographic data. Journal of Open Source Software, 5, 2497. doi:10.21105/joss.02497
  • Roarty, H., Glenn, S., Brodie, J., Nazzaro, L., Smith, M., Handel, E., Kohut, J., Updyke, T., Atkinson, L., Boicourt, W., Brown, W., Seim, H., Muglia, M., Wang, H. & Gong, D. (2020). Annual and Seasonal Surface Circulation Over the Mid-Atlantic Bight Continental Shelf Derived From a Decade of High Frequency Radar Observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125. doi:10.1029/2020JC016368

2019

  • Seyler, L. M., Tuorto, S., McGuinness, L. R., Gong, D. & Kerkhof, L. J. (2019). Bacterial and Archaeal Specific-Predation in the North Atlantic Basin. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6. doi:10.3389/fmars.2019.00555

2018

  • Seyler, L. M., McGuinness, L. R., Gilbert, J. A., Biddle, J. F., Gong, D. & Kerkhof, L. J. (2018). Discerning autotrophy, mixotrophy, and heterotrophy in marine TACK archaea from the North Atlantic. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. doi:10.1093/femsec/fiy014
  • Wallace, E. J., Looney, L. B. & Gong, D. (2018). Multi-Decadal Trends and Variability in Temperature and Salinity in the Mid-Atlantic Bight, Georges Bank, and Gulf of Maine. Journal of Marine Research, 76, 163–215. doi:10.1357/002224018826473281
  • Wiese, F. K., Harvey, H. R., McMahon, R., Neubert, P., Gong, D., Wang, H., Hudson, J., Ross, E., Charlette, M., Fabijan, M. & Gryba, R. (2018). Marine Arctic Ecosystem Study—Biophysical and Chemical Observations From Glider and Benthic Surveys in 2016.

2017

  • Panetta, P. D., Argo, T., Du, H., Gong, D., Ferris, L. N. & Hudson, J. (2017). Development of acoustic methods to measure oil droplet size and slick thickness on ROV and AUV platforms.
  • Sipler, R. E., Gong, D., Baer, S. E., Sanderson, M. P., Roberts, Q. N., Mulholland, M. R. & Bronk, D. A. (2017). Preliminary estimates of the contribution of Arctic nitrogen fixation to the global nitrogen budget. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 2, 159–166. doi:10.1002/lol2.10046

2016

  • Gong, D. & Pickart, R. S. (2016). Early summer water mass transformation in the eastern Chukchi Sea. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 130, 43–55. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.04.015

2015

  • Gong, D. & Pickart, R. S. (2015). Summertime circulation in the eastern Chukchi Sea. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 118, 18–31. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.02.006
  • Rona, P., Guida, V., Scranton, M., Gong, D., Macelloni, L., Pierdomenico, M., Diercks, A., Asper, V. & Haag, S. (2015). Hudson submarine canyon head offshore New York and New Jersey: A physical and geochemical investigation. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 121, 213–232. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.07.019

2011

  • Xu, Y., Chant, R., Gong, D., Castelao, R., Glenn, S. & Schofield, O. (2011). Seasonal variability of chlorophyll a in the Mid-Atlantic Bight. Continental Shelf Research, 31, 1640–1650. doi:10.1016/j.csr.2011.05.019

2010

  • Gong, D., Kohut, J. T. & Glenn, S. M. (2010). Seasonal climatology of wind-driven circulation on the New Jersey Shelf. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 115. doi:10.1029/2009JC005520
  • Roarty, H., Glenn, S., Kohut, J., Gong, D., Handel, E., Rivera, E., Garner, T., Atkinson, L., Brown, W., Jakubiak, C., Muglia, M., Haines, S. & Seim, H. (2010). Operation and Application of a Regional High-Frequency Radar Network in the Mid-Atlantic Bight. Marine Technology Society Journal, 44, 133–145. doi:10.4031/mtsj.44.6.5

2008

  • Schofield, O., Chant, R., Cahill, B., Castelao, R., Gong, D., Kahl, A., Kohut, J., Montes-Hugo, M., Ramadurai, R., Ramey, P., Xu, Y. & Glenn, S. (2008). The Decadal View of the Mid-Atlantic Bight from the COOLroom: Is Our Coastal System Changing?. Oceanography, 21, 108–117. doi:10.5670/oceanog.2008.08