Ocean Process Analysis Lab. (OPAL)
Current lab. members:
Research assistants:
Tzu-Hsuan Yang (楊子萱) - administrative affairs and logistics
Yen-Chen Huang (黃姸禎) - field experiment and data analysis
Yu-Yu Yeh (葉祐瑜) - field experiment and data analysis
Students:
Chen-Chen Ho (何真珍) - Observations and Analysis of diurnal warm layer
Dai-Jun Yu (余岱鈞) - Water mass analysis and Kuroshio-eddy interactions
Former post-doc researcher:
Yu-Hsin Cheng (now an Assistant Professor in NTOU) - mesoscale eddy, flow-headland interactions, internal waves, and ocean hazards
Former master students:
2022 Yu-Yu Yeh - Turbulence, lee waves and Kelvin-Helmholtz instability resulting from the Kuroshio-seamount interactions (108年度大專學生研究計畫研究創作獎; First place in the poster contest at 2021 Ocean Science Conference; First place in the student presentation contest at 2022 Ocean Science Conference;臺灣大學理學院院長獎)
2022 Su-Yu Lin - Current and sea-level variations induced by the passage of a strong typhoon
2021 Chery Ma - Submesoscale eddy as a result of Kuroshio-headland interactions (Second place in the poster contest at 2021 Ocean Science Conference)
2020 Meng-Chiao Hsieh (soon-to-be a Captain at Eva Air) - diurnal warm layer in the upper ocean (Second place in the poster contest at 2019 Ocean Science Conference; 臺灣大學理學院院長獎; 阮維周學位論文獎)
2017 Chih-Lun Liu (now a Ph.D. student at Oregon State University) - numerical simulation of Green Island wake (First place in the student presentation contest at 2017 Ocean Science Conference; his thesis is now a JGR-oceans paper https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JC013501)
2017 Julia Chang (now a Ph.D. student at University of Victoria) - Observations of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability and island wake (Second place in the poster contest at 2016 Ocean Science Conference; AGU Student Travel Grant to attend the 2016 AGU Fall Meeting)
2017 Chieh-Yuan Tsai - conversion of internal solitary waves in the SCS (First place in the poster contest at 2016 Ocean Science Conference)
2016 Wan-Ting Teresa Hsieh (now a professional Latin dancer and instructor) - Formation of typhoon cold wake filament (First place in the poster contest at 2015 Ocean Science Conference)
2014 Sin-Huei Yu (now a research asistant in NTOU) - mesoscale eddy in the South China Sea
2013 Sin-Ya Jheng (now a marine technician in the Instrument Center of IONTU) - Kelvin-Helmholtz above a seamount (Third place in the poster contest at 2012 Ocean Science Conference; her thesis partly contributed to a GRL paper http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016GL069462)
2013 Yu-Jen Lien - mesoscale eddy in the western Pacific (First place in the poster contest at 2012 Ocean Science Conference)
2012 Yu-Lin Sung (now a technician in the Taiwan Ocean Research Institute) - baroclinic tide in the Taiwan Strait
Former research assistants:
Wei-Ting Hung (now a marine technician in the Instrument Center of IONTU) - field experiments and instruments
Chieh-Yuan Tsai - Central Weather Bureau project
Chih-Lun Liu (now a Ph.D. student at Oregon State University) - numerical simulations using MITgcm
Wan-Ting Teresa Hsieh (now a professional Latin dancer and instructor) - development of microstructure measurements
Yu-Sin Huang (now a Ph.D. student at National Taiwan Normal University) - Central Weather Bureau project
Chih-Wei Huang - field experiments and instrument development
Yu-Jen Lien - data analysis