Scripps Student Spotlight: Athina Lange

Third year PhD student, Athina Lange, was featured in the Scripps Student Spotlight this month.

Athina Lange is a PhD student in her third year at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, studying physical oceanography with a focus on coastal oceanography. A San Diego native, Lange grew up in Del Mar and Carmel Valley, and later moved abroad to Germany for high school. Before coming back to San Diego to study at Scripps Oceanography, she attended college at University College Dublin, in Dublin, Ireland, earning her bachelor’s degree in theoretical physics. In company with her advisor Mark Merrifield, Lange does research in the Coastal Processes Group.

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