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Science Officer Page

Joe Sienkiewicz - OPC Science Operations Officer, Chief (Acting) Ocean Applications Branch

Wind against current
Plum Gut off of Orient Point, Long Island

Ocean Applications Branch

Joe Sienkiewicz - Chief (Acting); Science Operations Officer
Curt Janota - Developmental Meteorologist
Fran Achorn - Meteorologist
Gregory McFadden - Contract Computer Programmer
Robert Daniels - Contract Oceanopgrapher

Training Sessions

Surface Analysis
Shapiro_Keyser_Cyclone_Model
Schultz_Wernli_S-K_vs_Norwegian_Cyclones
Types of cyclones

Hurricane Force Cyclones
A Look at Hurricane Force Cyclones

Tugboat Exercise
Tugboat Weather Exercise


Presentations
MABPOM_2002
International Marine Weather Conference, London, UK 2003
Mystic Seaport Feb 2003
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Aug 2000
12th Cyclone Workshop Val-Morin Quebec 2003
Use of Remotely Sensed Ocean Vector Winds at NOAA OPC-NWSHQ 2002
QuikSCAT Derived Winds and Low-Level Stability_Mid-Atlc Marine Workshop 2003
Scatterometer Derived Winds in the Vicinity of the Gulf Stream_AMS_2004
Ocean Vector Winds Science Team Meeting Oxnard CA Jan 2003
U.S. Naval Academy Safety At Sea Seminar 2003
U.S. Naval Academy Safety At Sea Seminar 2004
TPC_QuikSCAT_Meeting_May_2004
Low-Level Stability Taunton WFO Apr 2004
Symposium on the 50th Anniversary of Operational Numerical Weather Prediction College Park MD Jun 2004
A Look at Winter Hurricanes Southern New England Weather Conference Nov 2004

Publications
Scatterometer Inferred Winds in the Vicinity of the Gulf Stream (AMS 2004 poster P2.7)

Forecasting Ocean Cyclones at the NOAA Ocean Prediction Center (50th NWP Symposium, 2004)