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TERRILL, ERIC

Director, Coastal Observing Research and Development Center

Degrees:

• B.S., University of California San Diego
• Ph.D., UCSD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Research Interests:

• Coastal observing systems and technology development (HF radar, in-situ sensor systems, moorings, autonomous underwater vehicles)
• Air-sea interaction processes; surface waves, wave breaking, and turbulence and in air-sea fluxes, boundary layers, hurricanes
• Acoustical oceanography with emphasis on applications to nearshore, coastal, and upper ocean studies; sound propagation through bubbly flows
• Naval hydrodynamics

Honors and Awards:

• ONR Young Investigator Award

Mentoring:

• Galloway, Katie (Undergrad; 2010-2010)
• Bois, Jerome (Masters; 2008-2008)
• Marini, Laure (Undergrad; 2008-2008)
• Barbier, Natasha (Undergrad; 2007-2007)
• Bettinger, Amanda (Undergrad; 2007-2007)
• Eisner, Louis (Undergrad; 2007-2007)
• Nager, Andrew (Undergrad; 2006-2006)
• Andrechik, Jonathan (Masters; 2005-2007)
• Cooney, Lauren (Undergrad; 2005-2005)
• Sevadjian, Jeff (Undergrad; 2004-2004)
• Areson, Robin (Undergrad; 2003-2003)
• Beckenbach, Edwin (Post Doc; 2003-2007)
• Kim, Sung Yong (Graduate; 2003-2009)
• Ronquillo, David (Undergrad; 2002-2002)
• Gray, Ronan (Masters; 2000-2001)
• Jong, Stephanie (Undergrad; 2000-2001)
• Lada, Genevieve (Masters; 2000-2001)

Sound speed measurements in the surface wave layer. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America: 102(5):2607-2625. (1997)

Bubble entrainment by breaking waves and their effects on the inherent optical properties of the upper ocean. Ocean Optics: XIV:1-17. (1998)

Terrill, E.J. and W.K. Melville. Bubbles and surf-zone oceanography. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress on Acoustics and 135th Meeting of the Acoustical Soc. of America. June 22-26, 1998. Seattle, WA. pp. 703-704. (1998)

Field measurements of bubble size distributions in the upper mixed layer. The Wind-Driven Air-Sea Interface: Electromagnetic and Acoustic Sensing, Wave Dynamics and Turbulent Fluxes,: Michael L. Banner, Ed., Sydney, Australia, (1999)

A broadband acoustic technique for measuring bubble size distributions: Laboratory and shallow water measurements. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: 17:220-239. (2000)

'Surf zone bubble populations'. Acoustical Oceanography, Vol 23, Part 2. pp. 212-219. (2001)

Bubble entrainment by breaking waves and their influence on optical scattering in the upper ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research, Oceans: 106:16,815-16,823.(2001)

Developing Coastal Observing Systems for Water Quality Needs. Proceedings of California and the World's Ocean Conference. Santa Barbara, CA (2002)

Observations of devergence and upwelling around Point Loma, California. Journal of Geophysical Research, Oceans: 110, 1-11. (2005)

Coastal Observatory Research Arrays: A Framework for Implementation Planning. Report on the NSF CoOP CORA Workshop. 2003. Jahnke, Bane, Barnard, Barth, Chavez, Dam, Dever DiGiacomo, Edson, Geyer, Glenn, Johnson, Moline, O'Donnell, Oltman-Shay, Persson

Piskozub, J., D. Stramski, E. J.Terrill, and W.K. Mellvile. Influence of forward and multiple light scatter on the measurement of beam attenuation in highly scattering marine environments. Optical Society of America, Vol 43(24): 4723-4731 (August 2004).

Anderson, K., B., Brooks, P. Caffrey, A. Clarke, L. Cohen, K. Crahan, K. Davidson, A. De Jong, G. De Leeuw, D. Dion, S. Doss-Hammel, P. Frederickson, C. Friehe, T. Hristov, D. Khelif, M. Moerman, J.S. Reid, S. Reising, M. Smith, E.J. Terrill, and D. Tsintikidis. The Red Experiment: An Assessment of Boundary Layer Effects in a Trade Winds Regime on Microwave and Infrared Propagation over the Sea Bulletin of the American Met. Society, Vol 85 (9): 1355-1365 (September 2004).

Roughan, M., E. J. Terrill, J. Largier, and M, Otero. Observations of Divergence and Upwelling around Pt. Loma, California. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol 110, C04011, doi:10.1029/2004JC00262 (2005).

D'Spain, G. L., E. J. Terrill, C. D. Chadwell, J. A. Smith, and S. Lynch. Frequency-only/passive synthetic aperture beamforming with an AUV-mounted hydrophone. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 120 (6): 3635-3654 (December 2006).

Terrill, E., M. Otero, L. Hazard, D. Conlee, J. Harlan, J. Kohut, P. Reuter, T. Cook, T. Harriss, K. Lindquist. Data Management and Real-Time Distribution in the HF-Radar National Network. Oceans 2006: 1-6, 10.1109/OCEANS.2006.306883 (September 2006).

Lipa, B.J., B. Nyden, D. Ullman, E. Terrill. SeaSonde radial velocities: derivation and internal consistency, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Vol. 31(4):850-861 (October, 2006).

Black, P. G., D'Asaro, E. A., Drennan, W. M., French, J. R., Niller, P. P., Sanford, T. B, Terrill, E. J., Walsh, E. J., Zhang, J. A. Bulletin of the American Meteorology Society. Air¬sea exchange in hurricanes: synthesis of observations from the coupled boundary layer air ­sea transfer experiment, March 2007.

De Paolo, T., and E. Terrill. Skill assessment of resolving ocean surface current structure using Compact-Antenna style HF RADAR and the MUSIC direction finding. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Vol. 24 (7):1277-1300 (July 2007). Ohlmann, C., White, P., Washburn, L., Terrill, E., Emergy, B., and M. Otero. Interpretation of coastal HF radar derived surface currents with high Resolution drifter data. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Vol. 24 (4): 666-680 (April 2007). Warrick, A., P.M. DiGiacomob, S.B. Weisberg, N.P. Nezlinc, M. Mengeld, B.H. Jonese, J.C. Ohlmann, L. Washburn, E.J. Terrillg and K.L. Farnsworth. River plume patterns and dynamics within the Southern California Bight. Continental Shelf Research, Vol. 27(19): 2427-2448 (November 2007).

D’Asaro, E, Sanford, T. B., P. P. Niiler, and E. J. Terrill. Cold wake of Hurricane Frances. Geophysical Research Letters, Vol 34, L15609, Dol: 10 1029/2007GL030160 (August 2007).

Beckenbach, E. and E. J. Terrill. Internal tides over abrupt topography in the Southern California Bight: Observations of diurnal waves poleward of the critical latitude. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol 113, C02001, Dol: 10 1029/2006JC003095 (February 2008).

Moline, M., Blackwell, S.M., Casse, J.F., Haddock, S. H. D., Herren, C.M., Orrico, C.M., and E. J. Terrill. Bioluminescence to Reveal Structure and Interaction of Coastal Planktonic Communities, Deep Sea Research, 2008.

Kim, S. Y., E. J. Terrill, and B. D. Cornuelle, 2007, Objectively mapping HF radar-derived surface current data using measured and idealized data covariance matrices, J. Geophys.Res., 112, C06021, doi:10.1029/2006JC003756

Kim, S. Y., E. J. Terrill, and B. D. Cornuelle, 2008, Mapping surface currents from HF radar radial velocity measurements using optimal interpolation, J. Geophys. Res., 113, C10023, doi:10.1029/2007JC004244

Hoteit, I., B. D. Cornuelle, S. Y. Kim, G. Forget, A. Kohl, and E. J. Terrill, 2008, Assessing 4D-VAR for dynamical mapping of coastal high-frequency radar in San Diego, Dynam. Atmos. Oceans, doi:10.1016/j.dynatmoce. 2008.11.005

Kim, S. Y., B. D. Cornuelle, and E. J. Terrill, 2008, Anisotropic response of surface currents to the wind in a coastal region, J. Phys. Oceanogr. accepted