Eric Chassignet

World Oceans Day: FSU researcher shares insight into importance of the ocean

Published: June 6, 2022 | 12:19 pm | Posted in: Expert Pitches

The United Nations marks June 8 as World Oceans Day, an opportunity to celebrate the ocean and how it supports life on Earth. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

The United Nations marks June 8 as World Oceans Day, an opportunity to celebrate the ocean and how it supports life on Earth. As director of Florida State University’s Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS), Eric Chassignet leads investigations into the physical processes that govern the ocean and its interactions with the atmosphere. He spoke […]

FSU researchers develop tool to track marine litter polluting the ocean

Published: April 28, 2021 | 12:15 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

A screenshot from a virtual tool developed by the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies to track marine litter. The colored lines show the path of debris in the ocean. from a virtual tool developed by the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies to track marine litter.

In an effort to fight the millions of tons of marine litter floating in the ocean, Florida State University researchers have developed a new virtual tool to track this debris. Their work, which was published in Frontiers in Marine Science, will help provide answers to help monitor and deal with the problem of marine litter. […]

FSU researchers: Florida’s climate is changing, and we should all take notice

Published: February 6, 2018 | 4:28 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

In their book “Florida’s Climate: Changes, Variations & Impacts,” Chassignet and Misra offer a thorough review of the current state of research on Florida’s changing climate.

Climate change is often understood as a global problem with broad effects that are difficult to detect on more narrow local scales. However, Florida State University Professor Eric Chassignet and Associate Professor Vasu Misra, both from the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, believe that more attention should be paid to state-level effects of […]

FSU researchers receive $2.8M to study fate of BP Oil spill

Published: September 28, 2017 | 3:16 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

Eric Chassignet, director of FSU’s Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Studies

A team of research institutions led by Florida State University has been awarded a $2.8 million grant to expand our understanding of how the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill affected the ecology of the Gulf of Mexico. Eric Chassignet, director of FSU’s Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Studies (COAPS), will lead the team of scientists who will […]

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