Dr. Amit Tandon has recently been awarded a number of grants
 
From the National Science Foundation, Tandon and his collaborator Dr. Amala Mahadevan from Boston University received $412,000 to study sub-mesoscale motions in the ocean. UMass Dartmouth’s share of the grant is $177,110.

He and his collaborators from MIT, UCLA, Princeton University, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Florida State University and two federal laboratories (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder CO and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton NJ) have been awarded a NSF-NOA grant to continue their work on mesoscale and mixed layer models as part of the Climate Modeling and Process teams. The team was first granted $2 million from 2003-2006 and received an additional $1.3 million for 2006-2008.  UMass Dartmouth’s share of the grant is $32,824.

Tandon was the recipient of a $28,475 subcontract by MIT to implement a series of atmospheric/ocean dynamics experiments into the undergraduate and graduate curriculum at UMass Dartmouth. The university joins MIT, Penn State, John Hopkins University, University of Wisconsin Madison and Millersville University by taking part in this implementation. The subcontract is part of a $514,707 phase-II CCLI award given to MIT by the Division of Undergraduate Education.