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Ria Oelerich

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  • Email: oelerich [at] uni-bremen.de

Research Interests

  • Adaptive sampling with ocean gliders
  • Microstructure observations
  • Frontal systems
  • Large-scale ocean circulation
  • Circulation and variability in polar regions
  • Ice-Ocean interactions
Curriculum Vitae  
2023 - present Postdoc at the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM) and Institute for Environmental Physics (IUP), University of Bremen, Germany
2018 - 2023 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in physical oceanography at the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
2016 - 2018 M.Sc. in physical oceanography at the University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2011 - 2016 B.Sc. in geophysics and geoinformatics at the Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Sachsen, Germany
Projects  
since 01/2023 Internal Wave Energy Dissipation and Wavenumber Spectra: Adaptive Sampling in the Ocean Interior (subproject W5 in TRR181)
Publications
Oelerich, R., K.J. Heywood, G.M. Damerell, M. du Plessis, L.C. Biddle, and S. Swart (2023), Stirring across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current's southern boundary at the prime meridian, Weddell Sea, Ocean Sci., 19, 1465–1482, doi:10.5194/os-19-1465-2023.
Oelerich, R., K.J. Heywood, G.M. Damerell, and A.F. Thompson (2022), Wind-induced variability of warm water on the southern Bellingshausen Sea continental shelf. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127, e2022JC018636, doi:10.1029/2022JC018636.
Schulze Chretien, L. M., A.F. Thompson, M.M. Flexas, K. Speer, N. Swaim, R. Oelerich, et al. (2021), The shelf circulation of the Bellingshausen Sea, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126, e2020JC016871, doi:10.1029/2020JC016871.
Oelerich, R. (2018), Lagrangian Single Particle Statistics in the Benguela Upwelling System off Namibia, Master Thesis at the University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
Participation in Scientific Cruises
RV Meteor, M188 South Atlantic Mar - Apr 2023
Nathaniel B. Palmer, NBP-1901 Bellinghausen Sea Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
RV Alkor, A-494 Baltic Sea Junie 2017