About Me

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I am a PhD student in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. My research focuses on coastal physical oceanography on timescales from days to decades. Coastal regions are home to some of the most productive ecosystems in the world and the health of these ecosystems is tightly linked to their physical environment. I investigate how and why water properties like temperature, salinity, and nutrients vary in space and time as a result of oceanic and atmospheric forcing, with my questions motivated by how these physical changes impact coastal ocean ecosystems.

To answer my research questions, I build software tools to analyze and visualize in-situ, remote sensed, and model datasets from a variety of sources. I strongly believe that good code makes great science , so I'm particularly passionate about contributing to an ecosystem of open-source software and open-source science in the oceanographic community and beyond.

Nitrate Response to Coastal Upwelling on the Oregon Shelf: Insights from OOI Endurance Array Profilers

May 2025
Andrew Scherer, Melanie R. Fewings, Thomas Connolly, Maria Kavanaugh, Jennifer Fisher
Ocean Observatories Initative Facilities Board Spring Meeting: New Orleans, LA, USA

Coastal Upwelling Through the “Lens” of ODYSEA

October 2024
Andrew Scherer, Melanie R. Fewings
S-MODE/ODYSEA Science Team Meeting: NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA, USA

Nutrient Fluxes in the US Pacific Northwest Coastal Upwelling System

September 2021
Andrew Scherer, Thomas Connolly
Eastern Pacific Ocean Conference: South Lake Tahoe, CA, USA

Nearshore Nitrate Response to Wind on the Newport Hydrographic Line, OR, USA

September 2023
Andrew Scherer, Thomas Connolly
Best Student Poster Award - Eastern Pacific Ocean Conference: South Lake Tahoe, CA, USA

Nearshore Nitrate Response to Wind on the Newport Hydrographic Line, OR, USA

June 2023
Andrew Scherer, Melanie R. Fewings, Thomas Connolly
Gordon Research Conference on Coastal Ocean Dynamics: Smithfield, RI, USA

Observations of Cross-Shelf Nitrate Fluxes over the Oregon Continental Shelf

March 2022
Andrew Scherer, Thomas Connolly
American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting: Chicago, IL, USA