Dr. Cheryl Harrison works on biophysical interactions spanning applied math, physical oceanography, ecology and biogeochemistry, focusing mostly on modeling. In the past she has studied the detection of coherent mesoscale circulation features (eddies, jets and filaments) and how they can affect transport of material, including marine larvae, in coastal upwelling systems. This led to studying coastal shelf circulation’s effects on the development of hypoxia in upwelling systems. Currently she is a post-doc at NCAR working with Matt Long, studying the effects of resolving mesoscale circulation on carbon export in a global eddy resolving model, and working on simulating turtle migration weaving in robotic control theory.