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@WHOI. Previously @PolarScience_UW. Research in sea ice; polar oceanography. Here for climate change; diversity in STEM.

Woods Hole, MA
Joined October 2016
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Maddie Smith (she/her)
4 years
Sooo I guess this is a good time to share that I’ll be starting as a TT Assistant Scientist @WHOI in Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, September 2022! Stoked to keep filling my days with sea ice❄️, ocean physics🌊, and working w great colleagues. ✨.
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Maddie Smith (she/her)
4 years
Life status update: unsubscribing from job listservs! 🎉.
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2 years
RT @Zhichao_Geo: Beyond Solid Earth, submarine DAS is also great for studying acoustics. From an active experiment offshore Martha's vineya….
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2 years
RT @kaitlinnaughten: We’ve spent the last few years modelling the future of the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica, and I regret to inform you….
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2 years
RT @yogeshgirdhar: Do you do robotics/ML research in the ocean context? @WHOI is hiring for tenure track scientists positions. Super great….
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2 years
Can’t wait to work more on improving methods for this work, to explore more applications, and use it for more great science! Big gratitude to awesome co-authors and funders @SandiaLabs @jakedavis_sci @NSF @WHOI /end.
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2 years
The ability to measure these properties over both time and space is stunning — and can also help quantify the spatial and temporal evolution (like ice advection suggested by the slope of the dashed white line “ice edge” here) 4/
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2 years
This allows us to measure wave spectra and bulk properties in high spatial resolution. In this example, where there’s partial ice cover along the cable, we can see strong spatial gradients in these properties and the resulting wave attenuation. 3/
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Maddie Smith (she/her)
2 years
The method uses distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to measure strain of seafloor cables, which can be empirically converted to wave spectra using in situ buoys (at least for now). The cable we measured was in the Alaskan Arctic
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Maddie Smith (she/her)
2 years
🚨We can measure waves along 10s of km of coastline with incredibly high resolution using seafloor telecommunication cables! We show an application of this for understanding waves in sea ice in our new GRL open-access publication: 1/.
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Maddie Smith (she/her)
2 years
RT @MarcelNicolaus: Exciting to see how sea ice thin sections turn into fassion thanks to Amy Lauren Richman and @megavolts_ak. @MOSAiCAr….
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2 years
RT @Chris__Reddy: ‘I remind people all the time that science can wait’
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Maddie Smith (she/her)
2 years
⬇️ the face of someone who is STOKED to dig into the data. but forgot their dramamine in their checked luggage which did not arrive in time 🫠
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Maddie Smith (she/her)
2 years
Successfully recovered all 👏 the 👏 moorings 👏 last week! These measurements of ocean waves and temperature will help us understand landfast ice breakout and calibrate measurements of waves from seafloor cables. @WHOI @NSF -funded
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Maddie Smith (she/her)
2 years
Went to Prudhoe Bay last week to drill some holes in the ice and drop some moorings to the seafloor! See you in September 🤞🏼👏🏼 #timelapse @WHOI
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Maddie Smith (she/her)
2 years
Applications for the @WHOI postdoctoral scholar program are open! Please reach out if you are interested in applying to work together on upper ocean-sea ice interactions, sea-ice physics using obs. and climate models, or coastal waves using DAS. Deadline Oct 15.
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Maddie Smith (she/her)
2 years
RT @SaverioIV: It turns out that sparkling water and raisins are *fascinating*. My daughter and I happened upon this effect playing togethe….
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2 years
and Hélène:
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Maddie Smith (she/her)
2 years
For a nice preview of our findings, check out summary threads by Evgenii:
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Evgenii Salganik
2 years
@elementascience @MOSAiCArctic In our new study led by @madmscientist, we cover MOSAiC multidisciplinary observations of false bottoms and under-ice meltwater and provide melt-related terminology for WMO Sea Ice Nomenclature.
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Maddie Smith (she/her)
2 years
Incredibly excited to finally share this hugely interdisciplinary and collaborative work (w an incredible group of co-authors). There are still so many small-scale features with large-scale impact to understand in our present and changing Arctic ❄️ @MOSAiCArctic
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Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
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New in our @MOSAiCArctic Special Feature: Thin and transient meltwater layers and false bottoms in the #Arctic #seaice pack—Recent insights on these historically overlooked features
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RT @jenyasalganik: @elementascience @MOSAiCArctic In our new study led by @madmscientist, we cover MOSAiC multidisciplinary observations of….
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Maddie Smith (she/her)
2 years
🚨SESSION ALERT🚨 for all lovers of Arctic coasts! Looking forward to talking about icy linkages in the offshore-to-onshore continuum at Ocean Sciences 2024 in NOLA. Abstracts due 13 Sept!.w/ co-chairs Em Eidam @TundraTime @MuddyLobster @rogercreel .
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2 years
RT @jenyasalganik: Beautiful photos of false bottoms (sea ice layer formed between under-ice meltwater and seawater) captured by @madmscien….
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