Victoria Whitley

I am a PhD candidate and teaching assistant in the Applied Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computing (AMSC) program at the University of Maryland, College Park, advised by Dr. Jacob Wenegrat.

Currently, my research focuses on boundary exchange and mixing from breaking internal waves on sloping topography, using Large Eddy Simulations (LES). I studied Applied Mathematics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, while working at the Joint Applied Math and Marine Sciences Fluids Lab until 2019. Broadly, I am interested in numerical applications of ocean dynamics, particularly in the ocean submesoscale and interactions with topography and am driven by a passion for connecting mathematical and computational concepts to the natural world. Below is a video of a boundary tracer release using 3D LES.

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News

• (April 2024) Submitted Breaking internal waves on sloping topography: connecting parcel displacements to overturn size, interior-boundary exchanges, and mixing to JPO
• (June 2023) Ph.D. Student Victoria Whitley ‘Talks Math’ and Mentorship
• (May 2023) Received Hauptman Fellowship
• (May 2021) Advanced to candidacy
• (October 2019) AMSC website Student Profile
• (March 2018) UNC Research Edeavors: Women in Science