Josh Kohut
Assistant Professor
Physical Oceanography

email:
Phone: 732-932-6555, x.542
Fax: 732-932-8578

Education:
2002 Ph.D. Physical Oceanography, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
1997 B.S. with honors in Physics, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA (Cum Laude)
1997 Minor in Mathematics, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA

Research Interests:
My research focuses on the dynamics of the coastal ocean. I am currently involved in the development of a coastal network of surface wave radars to continuously sample movement of the ocean surface. This network consists of multiple systems sampling with grid resolutions of 1.5 km near-shore (within 40 km) to 6 km further offshore (out to 170 km). More recently a bistatic component has been added to optimize the entire network. In bistatic mode the transmitter is seperated from the reciever using either offshore moorings or other coastal sites. This new geometry provides additional measures of the surface current field that are used to reduce measurement error and extend the data coverage. Longterm surface current measurements of this multi-static HF radar network can be broken down into several components including stationary and nonstationary flows. By looking at each component seperately, I can concentrate on the contribution of each individual component to the surface dynamics. With the longer time series, my studies focus on many time scales ranging from individual events, like storms and upwelling, up to seasonal climatologies.