Victoria Whitley

Victoria Whitley

Applied Math and Scientific Computing PhD Candidate

Victoria Whitley Clark

I am the Head of Computational Physics at atdepth, where I build high-resolution ocean modeling systems for monitoring and verifying human interventions in the ocean.

I completed my PhD in the Applied Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computing (AMSC) program, at the University of Maryland, College Park, advised by Dr. Jacob Wenegrat in 2025. My doctoral research focused on boundary exchange and mixing from breaking internal waves on sloping topography or due to background flow modifications, using Large Eddy Simulations (LES). Before that, 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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