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The technology solving the ocean’s greatest mysteries
BBC Science Focus, Issue 353, August 6, 2020
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Algorithm aids search for those lost at sea
Scientific American, September 2020 Issue
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APS Focus on our research on invisible traps in pipes
APS Physics, 2018
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Black hole illustration
How black holes are like whirlpools
Discover, 2014
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Walls of Water
'Black holes' of the ocean could curb climate change

New Scientist, 2013 Read More

Walls of Water
Chasing the black holes of the ocean

ETH Life | Science Daily

Walls of Water
Ocean Eddies Act Like Watery Black Holes, New Research Shows

Huffington Post, 2013
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Walls of Water
Black Hole Analogue Discovered in South Atlantic Ocean

MIT Technology Review, 2013
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Walls of Water
Walls of Water

Scientific American, 2013
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Scientists Sparse Ocean's Dynamic Role in Climate Change
Scientists Sparse Ocean's Dynamic Role in Climate Change

Simons Foundation Science News, 2013
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The Mathematics of Fluids Quebec Science Magazine, Top 10 Discoveries, 2012 Read More
The Mathematics of Fluids

Quebec Science Magazine, Top 10 Discoveries, 2012
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The Shape of Things to Come


The Shape of Things to Come

McGill press release, March 12, 2011
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The Shape of Things to Come


Predicting the Unpredictable Environmental Disasters
Mission Blue, March 20, 2012
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Lagrangian Coherent Structures:

The Skeleton of Water
The Economist, November 12, 2009
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Finding Order in the Apparent Chaos of Currents
Finding Order in the Apparent Chaos of Currents

The New York Times, September 28, 2009
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All Stirred Up: Beneath the Chaos of Turbulence,
All Stirred Up: Beneath the Chaos of Turbulence,

There's a Strange Kind of Order
New Scientist, December 1, 2007
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A Moveable Feast:
A Moveable Feast:

Researchers Seek Stability in Lability
SIAM News, January 14, 2006
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Experiment Tracks the Progress of a Chaotically Mixed Chemical Reaction
Experiment Tracks the Progress of a Chaotically Mixed Chemical Reaction

Physics Today, February, 2006