Sierra Byrne
Graduate Student
Areas of Interest and Expertise
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Surfzone and inner-shelf processes
- River plume dynamics
- Coastal hazards
Sierra is a PhD candidate and NSF GRFP fellow co-advised by Mark Merrifield and Sarah Giddings at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She is interested in coastal physics with a specific focus on river plumes and storm conditions. Her first chapter investigates climate-scale variability in the transport of small river plumes from Los Peñasquitos Lagoon using 105 years of daily salinity measurements from the Scripps Pier. The rest of her thesis focuses on understanding event-scale small plume dynamics using a combination of observations and modeling.
