faculty

Christian Buckingham he/him/his

Assistant Research Professor

SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences

Contact

508-910-6019

^cmdnod\i)]p^fdibc\h;ph\nn_)`_p

SMASTE 131

Education

2013

University of Rhode Island

PhD

2004

Johns Hopkins University

2000

Grove City College

Teaching

Physics
Digital signal processing
Calculus

Teaching

Programs

Research

Research awards

$ 104,235 awarded by Office of Naval Research for REvisiting MIXed layer baroclinic instability for curved fronts (REMIX)
$ 480,694 awarded by the National Science Foundation for INTeRnal waves In angular momeNtum StratifICation (INTRINSIC)

Research

Research interests

Ocean physics
Remote sensing
Geophysical fluid dynamics
Mesoscale and submesoscale ocean dynamics
Turbulence

Select publications

Buckingham, C. E., J. Gula, and X. Carton (2021).
The role of curvature in modifying frontal instabilities, part 1: Review of theory and presentation of a nondimensional instability criterion
J. Phys. Oceanogr., 51(2), 299-315.
Buckingham, C. E., J. Gula, and X. Carton (2021).
The role of curvature in modifying frontal instabilities, part 2: Application of the criterion to curved density fronts at low Richardson numbers
J. Phys. Oceanogr., 51(2), 317-341.
Spingys, C. P., A. C. Naveira Garabato, S. Legg, K. L. Polzin, E. P. Abrahamsen, C. E. Buckingham (2021).
Mixing and transformation in a deep western boundary current: a case study
J. Phys. Oceanogr., 51(4), 1205-1222.
Nyadjro, E.S., B. K Arbic, C. E Buckingham, P. E Martin, E. Mahu, J. K Ansong, J. Adjetey, E. Nyarko, K. A. Addo (2021).
Enhancing satellite oceanography-driven research in West Africa: a case study of capacity development in an underserved region
Remote Sens. Earth. Syst. Sci., 1-13.
Buckingham, C. E., N. Lucas, S. E. Belcher, T. Rippeth, A. Grant, J. Le Sommer, A. Ajayi and A. Naveira Garabato (2019).
The contribution of surface and submesoscale processes to turbulence in the open ocean surface boundary layer
JAMES, 11, 1-29.

I am an oceanographer interested in the physics of the oceans. My primary area of research pertains to upper ocean turbulence and how dynamics at small horizontal scales in the ocean (1-10 km) can modify energy, buoyancy, and tracer exchanges between the ocean and atmosphere. This research is accomplished through a careful analysis of observations, models, and theories of the ocean.