|
|
CONTACT INFO |
|
|
|
Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory Stanford University Yang & Yamazaki Bldg., m/c 4020 473 Via Ortega Stanford, CA 94305 USA Email: jhench(@)stanford.edu |
|
I am a physical oceanographer with research interests in shallow-water circulation characterized by unsteadiness, strong advective accelerations, and frictional boundary layers that occupy much or all of the water column. I am also interested in the effects of stratification on shallow flows. Currently I am working on several projects including: wave-driven circulation and exchange in coral reef, lagoon, and pass systems and on the effects of stratification on circulation and mixing in a freshwater tidal river.
I also have a strong interest in interdisciplinary problems that have a significant physical component, such as larval fish transport, small-scale shear effects on phytoplankton, tidal-stream transport in crabs, sponge excurrents, and most recently, the effects of waves on corallivory.