Currents
The Currents workshop was focused on exploring why currents are formed in the ocean, how they impact our world and in what ways they are studied in laboratories. Oceanographer Amit Tandon introduced key concepts to the participants as well as demonstrated them through simple experiments on the Rotating Table, a historical object displayed at the exhibition.
About the Oceanographer
Amit Tandon is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the College of Engineering, an affiliate professor in the School of Marine Science and Technology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and an Adjunct Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
After completing his PhD in 1992 in mechanical engineering, Tandon received two successive competitive postdoctoral fellowship awards, first in ocean modeling and then in climate system modeling from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (1992–94, 1994–96). He joined the University of California Santa Cruz (1996–98) as assistant research professor, and subsequently joined the College of Engineering at UMass Dartmouth, where he has been since 1999.
Connected Exhibits and Programmes
The Rotating Table - a historical object that was used to study how earth’s rotation influences atmospheric circulation and ocean currents
Creating Clouds by Roddam Narasimha - a workshop on simulating clouds in a laboratory