Assistant
Professor of Marine Science Department of Marine Science 1020 Balch Blvd. Stennis Space Center, MS 39529-9904 phone: 228-688-5284 fax: 228-688-1121 stephan.howden@usm.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D.,
Physical Oceanography, 1996, University of
Rhode Island
M.Sc.,
Physics, 1989, Michigan State University
B.S., Physics, 1986, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
Impacts
of fresh water input into the coastal ocean
Hydrographic
Science
Remote
sensing of the oceans and atmosphere
Application
of satellite data for oceanographic and earth
system studies
Western
boundary currents
General
ocean circulation
Earth
climate system
COURSES
Classical
Geodesy (HYD 600)
Fundamentals
of geodesy, coordinate systems, and map projections
as applied to topographic features covered by
the world oceans.
Water
Levels (HYD 612)
Theory
and measurements of tidal and non-tidal water
levels for hydrographic applications.
Introduction
to Ocean Science (MAR 151)
Survey
of the physical, chemical, geological and
biological features of the ocean.
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS
Howden,
S.D., D.M. Le Vine, C.J. Loblinsky,
D. Vandemard, F. Bingham, and M. Haken, Open
Ocean Remote Sensing of Sea Surface Salinity
in the Middle Atlantic Bight: Gulf Stream Field
Campaign 1999., J. Ocean. Atmos. Tech.,
In preparation, 2005.
Johnson,
J., S.D. Howden, D. Burrage,
J. Miller, and J. Wesson, Remote Sensing of
Sea Surface Salinity in the Mississippi Sound
and Bight., In preparation, 2005.
Howden,
S.D. and R. Murtugudde, The effects of river
input in the Bay of Bengal, J. Geophys. Res.,
In press., 2001.
Howden,
S.D., The Three Dimensional Secondary
Circulation in Developing Gulf Stream Meanders,
Journal of Physical Oceanography, 30,
5, 888-915, 2000.
Wang,
L., C.J. Koblinsky, and S.D. Howden,
Mesoscale variability in the South China Sea
from TOPEX/Poseidon altimetry data, Deep
Sea Research, Pt I 47, (4), 681-708, 2000.
Howden,
S.D., and D.R. Watts, Jet Streaks in the
Gulf Stream, Journal of Physical Oceanography,
29, 1910--1924, 1999.
Wang,
L., C.J. Koblinsky, S.D. Howden, and
N. Huang, Interannual variability in the South
China Sea from expendable bathythermograph data,
J. of Geophys. Res, 104, (C10), 23509-23523,
1999.
Wang,
L., C. J. Koblinsky, and S.D. Howden,
Intermittence and modulation of mesoscale variability,
Geophys. Res. Let., 25, 4365-4368,
1998.
Wang
L.P., C.J. Koblinsky, and S.D. Howden,
Annual and Intra-Annual Sea Level Variability
in the Region of the Kuroshio Extension from
TOPEX/POSEIDON and Geosat Altimetry, Journal
of Physical Oceanography,28, 692--711, 1998.
Wang,
L., C.J. Koblinsky, and S.D. Howden,
Detecting Large Scale Rossby Wave Propagation
in the Mid-latitude South Pacific from Altimetry
Data using Wavelet Analysis, Geophysical
Research Letters, 25, 179-182, 1998.
Kim,
H-S., C. Flagg, and S.D. Howden, Arabian
Sea surface variability seen from the TOPEX/POSEIDON
altimetry: Extending the US JGOFS ADCP work,
Accepted for publication, 2000.
Howden,
S.D., E. Gottlieb, C.J. Koblinsky, H.T.
Rossby, and L. Wang, Gulf Stream observations
from the TOPEX/POSEIDON time series and in comparison
with in situ measurements near 71W, Submitted.
