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Physical Oceanographer
Research Interests:
Geophysical fluid dynamics: Dynamics of large-scale ocean circulation. Dynamical systems theory applied to the onset of instability and chaos in geophysical systems.
Education
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2001 PhD Graduate Program in Earth Sciences, in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Group, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University.
Thesis title: Dynamics of laboratory models of the wind-driven ocean circulation.
(Available from: http://thesis.anu.edu.au/public/adt-ANU20011018.115707/index.html).
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1994 BSc (Hons) First Class Honours in Physics, Department of Physics and Theoretical Physics, Australian National University.
Thesis title: Nonlinear interactions of internal gravity waves in a continuously stratified fluid (see abstract).
Employment
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July 2004 - present Lecturer, University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, ACT.
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July 2001 - June 2004 ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Group, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University.
- 2001 Research Assistant (coupled numerical ecosystem and circulation modelling of Jervis Bay, using ERSEM and POM), School of Geography & Oceanography, Australian Defence Force Academy.
Teaching
In session 2, 2004 I am course coordinator and co-lecturer for AGOC3302 (Continental Shelf Dynamics), co-lecturing AGOC2302 (Marine Models in Ocean Dynamics 2B), supervising two students for AGOC3306 (Oceanography Research Project),and running some labs for AGOC1302 (Marine Science 1B).
Publications
A. E. Kiss (2004) “Potential vorticity dynamics in a domain with closed geostrophic contours. I: Steady linear flow”, J. Marine Res. 62 (4), 461-489.
A. E. Kiss (2003) “A modified quasigeostrophic formulation for weakly nonlinear barotropic flow with large-amplitude depth variations”, Ocean Modelling 5, 171-191.
A. E. Kiss (2002) “Potential vorticity ‘crises’, adverse pressure gradients and western boundary current separation”, J. Marine Res. 60 (6), 779-803.
A. E. Kiss (2001) “Potential vorticity ‘crises’ and western boundary current separation”, Proc. 14th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, University of Adelaide, 9th - 14th December 2001, pp. 901-904 (refereed).
R. W. Griffiths & A. E. Kiss (1999) “Flow regimes in a wide ‘sliced-cylinder’ model of homogeneous beta-plane circulation”, J. Fluid Mech. 399, 205-236.
A. E. Kiss & R. W. Griffiths (1998) “Flow dynamics in the ‘sliced cone’ model of wind-driven ocean circulation”, Proc. 13th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, 13th - 18th December 1998, pp. 823-826 (refereed).
A. E. Kiss (1999) “Chaos in the ‘sliced cone’ model of wind-driven ocean circulation”, Proc. 1998 Summer Study Program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Technical Report.
Publications in Preparation
A. E. Kiss (2004) “Potential vorticity dynamics in a domain with closed geostrophic contours. II: Nonlinear flow”, (in prep.)
A. E. Kiss and C. Ménesguen (2004) “Nonlinear resonance in a midlatitude gyre under periodically-varying wind forcing” (in prep.)
H. Bostock, B. Opdyke, A. E. Kiss, M. Gagan, K. Fifield (2004) “Glacial/interglacial changes in the East Australian Current” (in prep.)
Awards, Grants and Scholarships
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2001 Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Federation PhD Prize.
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2000 ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship (commencing in 2001).
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1998 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Summer Fellowship, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA, 22nd June - 28th August.
- 1995-98 John Conrad Jaeger PhD Scholarship, Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU.
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1994 University Medal in Physics, ANU.
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1994 A. L. Hales Honours Year Scholarship, Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU.