Research Interests
- Current and future impacts of key environmental stressors under climate change.
- Ocean physical-biogeochemical coupling.
- Ocean-biogeochemical modeling.
- Variabilities in chlorophyll distribution.
Prasanth Rajendran, PhD.
Postdoctoral Associate (Northern Gulf Institute), Physical Oceanography Division
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Miami, Florida 33149
“My research on the marine ecosystem and physical processes of the ocean is relevant for two primary reasons. First, the marine ecosystem is essential to the global life-support system and plays a crucial role in regulating our climate by removing greenhouse gases, such as CO2, from the atmosphere. Second, physical processes determine the structure of pelagic ecosystems, both directly by influencing phytoplankton growth and indirectly by affecting food web interactions. Therefore, I study the coupling between the marine ecosystem and ocean dynamics, incorporating observations and coupled physical-ecosystem model simulations.”
Dr. Prasanth Rajendran is a postdoc at the Northern Gulf Institute (NGI) and the Physical Oceanography Division at AOML. His research focuses on the impact of physical processes on phytoplankton distribution using ocean-biogeochemical models such as GOTM-TOPAZ, ROMS-Fennel, and MOM-TOPAZ. Dr. Prasanth is currently working on the Florida Regional Ecosystem Stressors Collaborative Assessment (FRESCA), a multidisciplinary effort led by AOML and the University of Miami, which seeks to investigate current and future impacts of key environmental stressors under climate change.
Current Work
Postdoctoral Associate – Northern Gulf Institute (NGI) and the Physical Oceanography Division at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)
Florida Regional Ecosystem Stressors Collaborative Assessment (FRESCA), a multidisciplinary effort led by AOML and the University of Miami, which seeks to investigate current and future impacts of key environmental stressors under climate change.
2024, Ph.D. Marine Science, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, India
2015, M.S. Oceanography, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, India
2012, B.S. Physics, Kerala University, Thiruvananthapuram, India
R. Prasanth, V. Vijith, P.N Vinayachandran, 2023, Formation, maintenance and diurnal variability of subsurface chlorophyll maximum during the summer monsoon in the southern Bay of Bengal.Progress in Oceanography, Volume 212,102974.
R. Prasanth, V. Vijith, V. Thushara, Jenson V G, P. N Vinayachandran, 2021, Processes governing the seasonality of vertical chlorophyll-a distribution in the central Arabian Sea: Bio-Argo observations and ecosystem model simulation. Deep-Sea Research Part II: 183:104926.
R. Prasanth, V. Vijith, P.N Vinayachandran, Relationship between chlorophyll-a and particle backscattering in the northern Indian Ocean using BGC-Argo profiles (under
review in Deep-Sea Research Part II)