Education

Ph.D. - Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Stanford University, 2009
M.S. - Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Stanford University, 2004
B.S. - Marine Biology, UCLA, 2000

Pan-American Studies Institute (NSF) on Estuarine Physics, Transport, and Water Quality - Unidad Academica Puerto Morelos UNAM , Quintana Roo, Mexico, 8/2007

Publications

Nidzieko, N.J., J.L. Hench and S.G. Monismith, 2009. Lateral circulation in stratified and well-mixed estuarine flows with curvature. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 39 (4), 831-851, doi:10.1175/2008JPO4017.1.

Monismith, S.G., J.L. Hench, J.L., D.A. Fong, N.J. Nidzieko, W.E. Fleenor, L. Doyle, and S.G. Schladow, 2009. Thermal variability in a tidal river. Estuaries and Coasts, 32 (1), 100-110, doi:10.1007/s12237-008-9109-9.

Breier, J.A., N.J. Nidzieko, S.G. Monismith, A. Paytan and W.S. Moore. Tidally driven chemical fluxes at the sediment-water interface in Elkhorn Slough, California: evidence from a coupled geochemical and hydrodynamic approack. Limnolgoy & Oceanography, Accepted manuscript.

Cacchione, D.A., P.D. Thorne, Y. Agrawal, and N.J. Nidzieko: 2008. Time-averaged near-bed suspended sediment concentrations under waves and currents: comparison of measured and model estimates. Continental Shelf Research, 28(3), 470-484.

Gross, E.S., N.J. Nidzieko, M.T. MacWilliams, and M.T. Stacey: 2008. Parameterization of estuarine mixing processes in the San Francisco Estuary based on analysis of three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations. Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Estuarine and Coastal Modeling.

Nidzieko, N.J., J.L. Hench, and D.A. Fong: 2006. Comparison of Reynolds stress estimates derived from standard and fast-ping ADCPs. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, (23)6, 854-861. [pdf, 0.4 MB]

Conference Presentations & Invited Talks

Patterns of residual circulation in a seasonally low-inflow estuary. Gordon Research Conference: Coastal Ocean Circulation, New London, NH. 6/2009 (poster)

Circulation and the thermal budget in Elkhorn Slough, California. California Estuarine Research Society Annual Meeting, CICESE, Ensenada, Mexico. 4/2008

Tidal asymmetry in California estuaries. California Estuarine Research Society Annual Meeting, Bodega Marine Lab, UC Davis. 3/2009

Tidal asymmetry in Elkhorn Slough. Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Elkhorn, CA. 3/2009 (invited talk)

Lateral circulation in well-mixed and stratified estuarine flows with curvature. AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences, Orlando, Florida. 3/2008

Seasonal patterns of residual circulation in Elkhorn Slough: physical mechanisms and their ecological role. ERF meeting, Providence, Rhode Island. 11/2007

Parameterization of estuarine mixing processes in the San Francisco Estuary based on analysis of three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations. 10th International Conference on Estuarine and Coastal Modeling, Newport, Rhode Island. 11/2007

Estuarine physics for the ecosystem-minded. John and Mary Louise Riley Seminar Series, Bodega Marine Lab, UC Davis. 8/2007 (invited talk)

Observations of seasonal residual circulation in Elkhorn Slough. California Estuarine Reserach Society Annual Meeting, Bodega Marine Lab, UC Davis. 3/2007

Physics of Estuarine and Coastal Seas, Astoria, Oregon. 9/2006 (poster)

AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences, Honolulu, Hawaii. 2/2006

Student Collaborations in Ocean Research, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, California. 11/2005

9th International Conference on Estuarine and Coastal Modeling, Charleston, South Carolina. 10/2005

nidzieko at stanford.edu - stanford, ca