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RASMUSSEN, LINDA

Assistant Project Scientist

Degrees:

  • M.A., New Mexico State University
  • M.S., Florida State University
  • Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Research Interests:

  • Physical processes of inner shelf marine habitats
  • Inner shelf circulation effects on larval distribution, pollutant dispersion, and bouyant plume transport
  • Connectivity of marine populations
  • Groundwater and nearshore circulation modeling



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Home Department:
IOD

Mailing Address:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla CA, 92093
Mail Code: 0218

Email: llrasmussen@ucsd.edu


Lab Website: http://levin.ucsd.edu
WWW: iod.ucsd.edu/~raz

Publications:

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Rasmussen, L., B. Cornuelle, L. Levin, J. Largier, and E. Di Lorenzo (2009) Effects of small-scale features and local wind forcing on tracer dispersion and estimates of population connectivity in a regional scale circulation model, J. Geophysical Research, Vol. 114, C01012, doi:10.1029/2008JC004777.

Parnell, P.E., P. Dayton , C. Lennert-Cody , L. Rasmussen , J. Leichter. (2006) Marine Reserve Design: Optimal Size, Fine-Scale Habitats, Species Affinities, Diversity, and Ocean Microclimate. Ecological Applications 16(3):945-962.

Rasmussen, L., G. Gawarkiewicz, W. B. Owens, M.S. Lozier, (2005):Slope water, Gulf Stream and seasonal influences on southern Mid-Atlantic Bight circulation during the fall-winter transition. J. Geophysical Research, 110, C02009, doi:10.1029/2004JC002311.


Last Modified: Mar 17, 2009