Generation and propagation of internal tides.
Internal wave dynamics, interactions between internal waves, eddies, and currents.
Instrumentation: shipboard and lowered Doppler sonars.
Dynamics of western boundary currents.
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Ph.D. Oceanography | Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD |
1998 |
B.Sc. Physics | McGill University |
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2007-present |
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2007-2008 |
Postdoctoral Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. |
2006-2007 2004-2006 |
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2004 |
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1998-2004 |
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1996-1997 |
EGU Young Scientists’ Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award |
2005 2004-2006 2002 2000-2001 2000 1998 1995-1998 1995-1996 1995 1995 1995 1995 |
2007 - CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent , Beaufort Sea. Mooring operations, hydrography, 36 days
2006 - R/V Melville, S. Jayne (WHOI), Kuroshio; KESS mooring operations, 11 days.
2005 - Icebreaker Oden; Microstructure and hydrographic section across the Arctic Ocean, 39 days
2005 - R/V Revelle, N. Hogg (WHOI), Kuroshio; KESS mooring operations, 20 days.
2002 - R/V Melville, L. Rainville (SIO), Japan; Kuroshio and internal waves studies, 13 days.
2002 - R/P FLIP, R. Pinkel and L. Rainville (SIO), Hawaii; HOME Nearfield, 28 days.
2001 - R/P FLIP, R. Pinkel (SIO), Hawaii; HOME Farfield, 40 days.
2001 - R/P FLIP, R. Pinkel (SIO), Southern California; Instrument testing, 10 days.
2001 - R/V Revelle, C. deMoustier (SIO), Southern California; Instrument testing, 4 days.
2000 - R/V Revelle, M. Gregg (UW), Hawaii; HOME Survey, 38 days.
2001 - R/V Revelle, F. Spiess (SIO), Southern California; Instrument testing, 6 days
2001 - R/V Revelle, J. Lynch (WHOI), East China Sea; ASIAEX Survey, 24 days.
1999 - R/P FLIP, J. Smith (SIO), Southern California; Surface and internal wave studies; 21 days.
1998 - R/V Sproul., E. Terrill (SIO), Southern California; Air-sea interactions; 10 days.
Rainville, L, and P. Winsor, 2008: Mixing across the Arctic Ocean: Microstructure observations during the Beringia 2005 Expedition. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L08606, doi:10.1029/2008GL033532
The KESS PIs, 2008 The Kuroshio Extension System Study (KESS). Eos Trans AGU, 89, No 17, 161-162.
Duda T.F. and L. Rainville, 2008: Diurnal and Semidiurnal Internal Tide Energy Flux at a Continental Slope in the South China Sea. J. Geophys. Res. C (Oceans). 113, C03025, doi:10.1029/2007JC004418
Klymak, J.M., R. Pinkel, and L. Rainville, 2008: Direct breaking of the internal tide near topography: Keana Ridge, Hawaii. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 38, 308-399.
Rainville, L., S.R. Jayne, J.L. McClean, and M.E. Maltrud, 2007: Formation of Subtropical Mode Water in a High-Resolution Ocean Simulation of the Kuroshio Extension Region. Ocean Modelling. 17, 338-356.
Timmermans, M.-L., H. Melling, and L. Rainville, 2007: Dynamics in the deep Canada Basin, Arctic Ocean, inferred by thermistor-chain time series. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 37, 1066-1076.
Rainville, L., and R. Pinkel 2006a: Baroclinic Energy Flux at the Hawaiian Ridge: Observations from the R/P FLIP. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 36, 1104-1122.
Rainville, L., and R. Pinkel 2006b: Propagation of Low-Mode Internal Waves Through the Ocean. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 36, 1220-1237.
Rainville, L., and R. Pinkel, 2004: Observations of Energetic High-Wavenumber Internal Waves in the Kuroshio. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 34, 1495-1505.
Rudnick, D, T. J. Boyd, R. E. Brainard, G. S. Carter, G. D. Egbert, M. C. Gregg, P. E. Holloway, J. M. Klymak, E. Kunze, C. M. Lee, M. D. Levine, D. S. Luther, J. P. Martin, M. A. Merrifield, J. N. Moum, J. D. Nash, R. Pinkel, L. Rainville, and T. B. Sanford, 2003: From Tides to Mixing Along the Hawaiian Ridge. Science, 301, 355-357.
Rainville, L.., 2002: Wirewalker: An Autonomous Wave-Powered Vertical Profiler. In Research Papers of the Link Foundation Fellows, Volume 2, edited by B.J. Thompson. University of Rochester Press. 187-197.
Rainville, L.., and R. Pinkel, 2001: The Wirewalker: An Autonomous Wave-Powered Vertical Profiler. J. Atmospheric And Oceanic Technology, 18, 1048-1051.
L.A. Hamel, L. Lessard, L. Rainville, V. Zacek, and B. Sur, 1997: A Superheated Droplet Detector for Dark Matter Search, Nuclear Instruments and Methods, A388, 91-99.
American Geophysical Union, Fall 2008, San Francisco, USA. Poster
American Geophysical Union, Ocean Sciences Meeting 2008, Orlando, USA. Invited oral presentation
Gordon Conference on Marine Polar Sciences 2007, Ventura, CA, USA. Poster
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2006, San Francisco, USA. Oral presentation.
American Geophysical Union, Ocean Sciences Meeting 2006, Honolulu, USA. Oral presentation.
European Geophysical Union General Assembly 2005, Vienna, Austria. Poster.
IAPSO/SCOR Ocean Mixing Conference 2004, Victoria, Canada. Poster.
American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting 2004, Montréal, Canada. Poster.
American Geophysical Union, Ocean Sciences Meeting 2004, Portland, USA. Oral presentation
IUGG General Assembly 2003. Sapporo, Japan. Oral presentation
European Geophysical Society Assembly 2003, Nice, France. Oral presentation
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2002, San Francisco, USA. Poster.
American Geophysical Union, Ocean Sciences Meeting 2002, Honolulu, USA. Oral presentation.
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2000, San Francisco, USA. Poster.
President of the WHOI Postdoctoral Association
Physical Oceanography Curricular Group Representative, Scripps Inst. of Oceanography.
Americal Geophysical Union.
American Association for Advancement of Science.
PADI Open Ocean Diver Certification
2005-2006
2000-2001
2002-present
Wrote the daily dispatches for the Beaufort Gyre website during the 2007 expedition in the Arctic (http://www.whoi.edu/beaufortgyre/)
Photos taken during 2007 Arctic expedition published in a children's book (Storm Scientist: Careers Chasing Severe Weather, Enslow Publishers, Inc., 2009) and the International Polar Year photo exhibit of the World Meteorological Organization in 2008-2009.
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