Andrew Scherer
Physical Oceanographer
Software Developer
Research
Shelf Nitrate Response to Upwelling on the Oregon Coast
Nitrate is a key nutrient for marine ecosystems, particularly in the Pacific Northwest coastal ocean. Using nearly a decade of in-situ nitrate data from profilers on the Newport Hydrographic Line, I am investigating how physical processes such as coastal, wind-driven upwelling effect the nitrate concentration on the Oregon continental shelf.
Lagrangian Particle Tracking in the California Current System
The ocean transports enormous amounts of heat, salt, and even tiny plankton! Lagrangian particle tracking is a powerful tool to understand ocean transport. I use Lagrangian particle tracking applied to long-term ocean velocity fields from satellites and models to understand how changes in ocean transport on yearly to decadal timescales effect the physical and biological properties of the Northern California Current System.
Software
pycoare
pycoare is a Python package for calculating various air-sea fluxes from bulk variables (e.g., wind speed, temperature, humidity), using the COARE algorithms developed through the TOGA-COARE project
OOI Profiler Nitrate Retriever
A command line interface to simplify the retrieval of high-quality in situ nitrate data from Ocean Observatories Initiative Endurance Array profiling moorings. A quality control procedure is applied to the data and the data is binned vertically and in time before being saved locally.
Scientific Data Analysis Template
This repository serves as a template for organizing and storing scientific analysis code in a structured and reproducible manner, with a particular focus on supporting Python notebook version control.