Congratulations Matthew Archer for being a recipient of the 2015 IEEE/OES Current, Waves and Turbulence Measurement workshop Student Award. Matthew is a PhD Candidate in Meteorology & Physical Oceanography at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science. He studies under Nick Shay, a SECOORA Principal Investigator.
Matthew will be presenting the results of the Wave Heights and Currents in the Florida Straits (WHARF) experiment funded by SECOORA. He will be showing data from the AWAC and HF radar measured currents and waves. Read more about the WHARF experiment here: https://secoora.org/node/425 .
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