Senior University of South Carolina 21 Years Marine Science and Chemistry

"My name is Jennifer Guard, and I attend the University of South Carolina.  I am in my senior (fourth) year at the university.  At the university, I am a Marine Science and Chemistry double major.  I attended high school at Wm. Henry Harrison High School in Harrison, OH.  After graduating, I plan on going on to receive my Masters in Marine Science at the University of South Carolina, and then also receive a PhD in GIS (Geographical Information Systems) at the same university.  Also the year I graduate I will be getting married to my fiancé, Paul Brown.  Once I finish my education at the University of South Carolina, I plan on going to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) to receive my PhD in Chemical Oceanography.  Once my education is finished, I plan on going and working for the government in a research laboratory or for the federal government.   

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Analysis of Water Masses from the Arabian Sea during the Summers of 1993 and 1995, using the Clustering Method

The water masses of the Arabian Sea in the Summers of 1993 and 1995 are studied using a version of Ward’s Clustering Method that groups sets of measurements together by using the distances between them.  The data obtained for this study is taken from the German Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (German JGOFS) from their cruise on the R/V Sonne (So090), and the United States Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (US JGOFS) from their cruise on the R/V Thomas Thompson (ttn-049, ttn-050).  The Arabian Sea is a dynamic body of water due to environmental changes that take place during the Summer and Winter Monsoons.  The Summer Monsoons cause upwelling of cold, nutrient-rich water along the western coast and downwelling in the central and eastern parts of the Arabian Sea.  In the central Arabian Sea, the surface mixed layer deepens and cools.  The Winter Monsoons also causes the surface mixed layer to deepen and cool in the central and western part of the Arabian Sea.  Therefore, the changes in the monsoons should be seen in the changes in the water masses.  In this study, water masses of the Arabian Sea are distinguished in three different ways.  The water masses are first looked at by using the temperature, salinity, and depth of each sample and grouping them together.  Next the water masses are looked at in the same fashion, but the number of groups was changed.  Lastly, the water masses are distinguished by only using the temperature and salinity for each sample.  By doing this, it is assumed that the temperature change has a linear relationship to the depth of the samples.