Robert Hetland
hetland@tamu.edu



Current research:

Courses:
Robert D. Hetland
Associate Professor
Department of Oceanography
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3146
phone: (979) 458-0096 fax: (979) 845-6331

Research Interests:

Numerical simulation of estuarine and continental shelf flow, buoyancy driven flow, and circulation in semi-enclosed basins.

Employment:

Associate Professor September 2006 - present
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Assistant Professor September 2000 - 2006
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Postdoctoral Investigator September 1999 - August 2000
USGS, Woods Hole, MA.

Guest Investigator September 1999 - August 2000
WHOI, Woods Hole, MA.

Graduate Research Assistant August 1996 - April 1999
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

Graduate Research Assistant August 1993 - August 1996
University of Maine, Orono, ME.

Education:

Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL August 1996 - April 1999
Ph. D. in Oceanography

University of Maine, Orono, ME August 1993 - August 1996
M. S. in Oceanography

Saint Olaf College, Northfield, MN August 1988 - May 1992
B. A. in Physics and Mathematics

Publications:

Hetland, R. D. and D. G. MacDonald (in press) Spreading in the near-field Merrimack River plume, Ocean Modelling. PDF

Justic, D., V. J. Bierman, D. Scavia, and R. D. Hetland (2007) Forecasting Gulfs Hypoxia: The Next 50 Years? Estuaries and Coasts, 30(5), 791-801.

Hetland, R. D. and L. Campbell (2007) Convergent blooms of Karenia brevis along the Texas coast, Geophys. Res. Letters, 34, L19604, doi:10.1029/2007GL030474. PDF

MacDonald, D. G., G, L. Goodman, and R. D. Hetland, (2007) Turbulent dissipation in a near field river plume: A comparison of control volume and microstructure observations with a numerical model, J. Geophys. Res., J. Geophys. Res., 112, C07026, doi:10.1029/2006JC004075.

Hetland, R. D. and S. F. DiMarco, (2007) How does the character of oxygen demand control the structure of hypoxia on the Texas-Louisiana continental shelf? J. Marine Systems, 70 (2008) 49-62, doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2007.03.002. PDF

Hetland, R. D., (2006) Event-driven model skill assessment, Ocean Modelling, 11, 214-223. PDF

Hetland, R. D, and R. P. Signell, (2005) Modeling Coastal Current Transport in the Gulf of Maine, Deep Sea Res. II, 52, 2430-2449. PDF

Hetland, R. D., (2005) Water mass structure of wind forced river plumes, J. Phys. Oceanogr, 35(9), 1667-1688. PDF

Hetland, R. D., and W. R. Geyer, (2004) An idealized study of dynamically controlled estuarine scales, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 34(12), 2677-2691. PDF

Hetland, R. D., D. J . McGillicuddy and R. P. Signell, (2002) Cross-frontal entrainment of plankton into a buoyant plume: the frog tongue mechanism, J. Mar. Res., 60, 763-777. PDF

McGillicuddy, D. J., R. P. Signell, C. A. Stock, B. A. Keafer, M. D. Keller, R. D. Hetland, and D. M. Anderson, (2002) A mechanism for offshore initiation of harmful algal blooms in the coastal Gulf of Maine, J. Plankton Res., 25(9), 1131-1138.

MacCready, P. M., R. D. Hetland, W. R. Geyer, (2002) Long-Term Isohaline Salt Balance in an Estuary. PECS issue of Cont. Shelf Res., 22, 1591-1601.

Hetland, R. D., Y. Hsueh and D. Yuan (2001), On the decay of a baroclinic jet flowing along a continental slope, J. Geophys. Res., 106(C9), 19,797-19,807. PDF

Hetland, R. D., Y. Hsueh, R. R. Leben, AND P. P. Niiler (1999), A Loop Current-Induced Jet Along the Edge of the West Florida Shelf, Geophys. Res. Letters, 26(15), 2239-2242. PDF

Pettigrew, N. R., D. W. Townsend, H. Xue , J . P. Wallinga, P. J . Brickley and R. D. Hetland (1998), Observations of the Eastern Maine Coastal Current and it’s Offshore Extensions, J. Geophys. Res., 103(C13), 30,623-30,639