📣NEW Zappa Lab publication!. 🌊☀️Learn about the first-of-its-kind buoy observations of shallow warm layers that form on calm, sunny days in Dr. Carson Witte’s new @ametsoc paper: “The Response of Large Diurnal Warm Layers to Short-Term Variability in Solar and Wind Forcing”.

🌊🔬🌍In 2019, researchers aboard R/V Falkor returned to the Southwest Pacific to study the ocean’s top millimeter—the sea surface microlayer—using UAVs and cutting-edge tech to map sea slicks and uncover their role in the ocean heat budget and upper ocean mixing. We will be

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Dr. Daniel Kiefhaber, former Fulbright Scholar visiting the Zappa Lab (2011–12), stopped by NYC en route to Rochester. During his time @LamontEarth, he studied small-scale waves and air-sea gas exchange, publishing two papers with the lab. Now CTO of DIOPTIC GmbH, he leads

Zappa Lab was thrilled to welcome Liv Cornelissen, a graduate student visiting from @AucklandUni and @niwa_nz, specialising in ocean modeling and ocean observations. Liv worked together with Lindsay and Carson aboard the RVIB Araon during the month-long Antarctic cruise studying

Small waves break under moderate 8 m/s winds, forming bright crests and gentle motion. The video captures the subtle dynamics of ubiquitous, small-scale wave activity that includes wave breaking without bubbles (microbreaking). #AirSeaObs #AirSeaFlux #OceanScience #Oceanography

Watch large ocean waves break under high winds and rain, creating cold, foam-filled waters. Smaller waves swirl the foam across the surface in a dynamic display of stormy sea conditions. The WASFAB research team used infrared imaging and the Active Controlled Flux Technique to

Last week, members of the Zappa Lab gathered to celebrate @Columbia Department of Earth and Environmental Science graduate student Lindsay Hogan’s recent achievements! The Zappa Lab celebrated her Dissertation Proposal milestone and the publication of her first paper in

#tbt This month marks 25 years since Prof. Zappa celebrated commencement at the University of Washington (@UW) as a newly minted PhD. This milestone highlights his dedication to ocean science and a career of continued contributions to research and mentorship. One of his early

#tbt Oct 2005: Prof. Zappa with the WASFAB research team (Jonathan Bent, Dave Schroeder, Gerrit de Leeuw) at the U.S. Army Corps Field Research Facility in Duck, NC. The team mounted IR and video systems on an 8-m boom extending off a 560-m pier to measure how wave processes

DEES grad student Junzhe (Jerry) Liu presented his research at the 2025 Waves in the Sea Environment (WISE) meeting, hosted by @UW. We use remote sensing (IR & polarimetric cameras, LiDAR, ADCP) to retrieve near-surface ocean current profiles, air-sea stress, and roughness

📣NEW Zappa Lab publication!. 🌊☀️Learn about how small-scale surface variability impacts wave slope measurements using polarimetric slope sensing in Prof. Laxague’s new @IEEEXplore paper! This work reveals how nonlinear light-slope interactions and novel division of focal plane

Zappa Lab Postdoc Carson Witte presented his research “The Response of Ocean Skin Temperature to Rain” at the International SST Fiducial Reference Measurement (FRM) Radiometer Network (ISFRN) 2025 workshop #ISFRN25 this April. Watch the session at [2:30:00]

@JGROceans CORRECTION: Peisen Tan received a PhD in 2024. Peisen currently is a postdoctoral scientist with Prof. Brian Haus.

📣Zappa Lab participates in NEW Wind-Wave Coupling study!. 🌊💨Learn how wind transfers energy to waves depending on airflow over the water in Peisen Tan’s new @JGROceans paper “Wind-Wave Momentum Flux in Steep, Strongly Forced, Surface Gravity Wave Conditions”. New lab

🌊🌍Three generations of atmospheric science leaders, connected through mentorship and discovery. Honoring Dr. Chris Fairall’s retirement after 50+ years unraveling air-sea interactions—from El Niño to hurricanes. Mentor to Dr. James Edson, who mentored Prof. Zappa. This is a