Oceanography graduate student Nikki Nikolova is aboard the research vessel RV Solander on the Northwest Shelf of Australia as part of the U.S. NSF-funded MINTIE project (Measuring and Modeling the Indonesian Throughflow International Experiment). Nikki is pictured at left with the science party from WHOI, Scripps and CSIRO, Australia, that this week successfully deployed an array of 6 moorings to observe the impact of internal waves emanating from Lombok Strait, Indonesia, on the continental shelf. Nikki’s thesis research, with MINTIE co-investigators John Wilkin and Javier Zavala-Garay, will use a high-resolution model, supported by data from the moorings that she helped deploy, to study the dynamics of flow in the Indonesian passages.
