Physics Department faculty conduct research which contributes to the creation of new knowledge based in the most basic laws that govern the behavior of nature. Their research programs involve undergraduate students and international opportunities for collaborations with academics, industry, and governmental organizations.
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Submissions from 2025
Offshore wind farms could impact coastal marine heatwaves in eastern boundary upwelling systems, Michael Dalsin, Ryan K. Walter, and Piero L.F. Mazzini
Vertical structure of subsurface marine heatwaves in a shallow nearshore upwelling system, Gavin Plume, Ryan K. Walter, Isabelle Cobb, et al.
Submissions from 2024
Impacts of Marine Heatwaves on Subsurface Temperatures and Dissolved Oxygen in the Chesapeake Bay, Nathan P. Shunk, Piero L. F. Mazzini, and Ryan K. Walter
Compound marine cold spells and hypoxic events in a nearshore upwelling system, Ryan K. Walter, Michael Dalsin, Piero L.F. Mazzini, et al.
High resolution assessment of commercial fisheries activity along the US West Coast using Vessel Monitoring System data with a case study using California groundfish fisheries, Yi-Hui Wang, Benjamin Ruttenberg, Ryan K. Walter, et al.
Spatial planning offshore wind energy farms in California for mediating fisheries and wildlife conservation impacts, Crow White, Yi-Hui Wang, Ryan K. Walter, et al.
Submissions from 2023
Spatial distribution of seawater carbonate chemistry and hydrodynamic controls in a low-inflow estuary, Sarah E. Bartoloni, Ryan K. Walter, Sydney N. Wewerka, et al.
The Seoul National University AGN Monitoring Project. IV. Hα Reverberation Mapping of Six AGNs and the Hα Size–Luminosity Relation, Hojin Cho, Jong-Hak Woo, Shu Wang, et al.
Effects of basin-scale climate modes and upwelling on nearshore marine heatwaves and cold spells in the California Current, Michael Dalsin, Ryan K. Walter, and Piero L. F. Mazzini
Signatures of Feedback in the Spectacular Extended Emission Region of NGC 5972, Thomas Harvey, W. Peter Maksym, William Keel, et al.
The Nature of LoBAL QSOs. II. HST/WFC3 Observations Reveal Host Galaxies Dominated by Mergers, Mariana S. Lazarova, Gabriela Canalizo, Mark Lacy, et al.
Decades of eelgrass meadow dynamics across the northeast Pacific support seascape-scale conservation, S. H. Munsch, Ryan K. Walter, B. L. Sanderson, et al.
Northeast Pacific eelgrass dynamics: interannual expansion distances and meadow area variation over time, Stuart H. Munsch, Fiona L. Beaty, Kathryn M. Beheshti, et al.
TDCOSMO - XII. Improved Hubble Constant Measurement from Lensing Time Delays using Spatially Resolved Stellar Kinematics of the Lens Galaxy, Anowar J. Shajib, Pritom Mozumdar, Geoff C.-F. Chen, et al.
Flushing time variability in a short, low-inflow estuary, Mohsen Taherkhani, Sean Vitousek, Ryan K. Walter, et al.
Application of Deep Learning for Classification of Intertidal Eelgrass from Drone-Acquired Imagery, Krti Tallam, Nam Nguyen, Jonathan Ventura, et al.
What Does the Geometry of the HβBLR Depend On?, Lizvette Villafaña, Peter R. Williams, Tommaso Treu, et al.
The Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS): A Parsec-scale Multi-phase Outflow in the Super-Eddington NLS1 Mrk 1044, N. Winkel, B. Husemann, M. Singha, et al.
Submissions from 2022
One‑dimensional Arrays of Optical Dark Spot Traps from Nested Gaussian Laser Beams for Quantum Computing, Travis Frazer and Katharina Gillen
One-dimensional array of optical dark spot traps from nested Gaussian laser beams for quantum computing, Katharina Gillen-Christandl and Travis Daniel Frazer
The Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS): IFU Survey Data and the BH Mass Dependence of Long-term AGN Variability, B. Husemann, M. Singha, J. Scharwächter, et al.
The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2016: Velocity-resolved Hβ Lags in Luminous Seyfert Galaxies, Vivian U, Aaron J. Barth, H. Alexander Vogler, et al.
The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2016: Velocity-resolved Hβ Lags in Luminous Seyfert Galaxies, Vivian U, Aaron J. Barth, H. Alexander Vogler, et al.
Seasonal controls on nearshore dissolved oxygen variability and hypoxia in a coastal embayment, Ryan K. Walter, Stephen A. Huie, Jon Christian P. Abraham, et al.
Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of California Commercial Fisheries from 2005 to 2019 and Potential Overlap with Offshore Wind Energy Development, Yi-Hui Wang, Ryan K. Walter, Crow White, et al.