MSc student Lauryn Talbot has published a paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, titled “Stirring regimes in the northeast Pacific Ocean”. The paper describes the stirring regimes along LineP, a transect of oceanographic stations that extends from the coast of Vancouver Island to offshore waters. The paper identifies two distinct stirring regimes along LineP - an actively-stirred regime strongly affected by the California Undercurrent, and a more quiescent regime in the offshore waters punctuated by intermittent offshore eddies.
This work is an important contraint on ocean predictions and has implications for the transport of nutrients, heat, and carbon in the northeast Pacific Ocean. The paper is available online at https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JC023699. Congratulations to Lauryn on this significant achievement!