OceanExpert ID : 28229

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Dr. Jose Mauro VARGAS-HERNANDEZ

Professor

Department of Physics

Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA)

Work Location

Campus Omar Dengo, Avenida 1, Calle 9
Jardines De Roma
Heredia, Heredia
86-3000
Costa Rica

Nationality

Costa Rica

Email(s)

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Telephone

+506 22773347

Profile URL

https://oceanexpert.org/expert/maurovh

Highest Degree

PhD

Job Type

Teaching/Education
Research

Subject Area

Climatology, Meteorology
Physical Oceanography

Activities

Dr. Vargas is a physical oceanographer in the Department of Physics at Universidad Nacional (UNA) in Costa Rica. He is a physicist by training and has a master’s degree in coastal geosciences and engineering and a doctorate degree in physical oceanography. His interests and expertise are in climate variability at several time scales, ocean and climate dynamics and near-shore and coastal dynamics. Dr. Vargas is the director of International Ocean Institute in Costa Rica (IOI-CR), vice-principal of Department of Physics and an active researcher in the Laboratory of Coastal Oceanography and Management (LAOCOS) and Regional Service of Oceanography Information in the Department of Physics. He currently leads a research project in the Gulf of Nicoya in Costa Rica to characterise the hydrography and circulation using observations and numerical models. He also studies the ocean circulation and seasonal variability of oceanic and atmospheric dynamic variables in the Santa Elena Bay in the Northwest Pacific of Costa Rica.

Dr. Vargas, as IOI-CR director, co-organises annually a training course of Ocean Governance, Ocean Science and Geoethics together with IOI – Brazil and organises annual events such as ocean-academy courses, seminars for celebrating the World Ocean Day, among other activities related to ocean science.  


Skills

Fully proficient on Linux, Unix and Windows environments. Experience with Latex, Mathematica, Python, Fortran, IDL, TeraScan, ArcGIS, Surfer, Matlab.

Experience processing and analyzing oceanographic and meteorological data from observations, models, reanalysis products and remote sensing data from satellites.

Experience operating oceanographic and meteorological instruments such as: CTD, ADP, ADCP, propeller velocity meters, echo sounder, side scan sonar and meteorological stations.

Experience using hydrodynamics and sediment transport models for coastal applications such us DELFT3D (WL Delft Hydraulics) and ECOM.

Oceanographic surveys: North Sea coast, Büsum, Germany. Hydrographic surveys along Submarine Ridges in the Pacific continental shelf of Galapagos Island and Coco Island (November 04 - 27, 2015 and January 21 - February 17, 2017). Multiple surveys in coastal waters in the Pacific and Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.






Working language(s)

Spanish English

Citation(s)

ResearchGate

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Website(s)

https://www.fisica.una.ac.cr/index.php/informacion-general/personal-academico/25

Created: 2016-10-28 | Last Updated: 2022-03-25


Group(s): GOOS , HAB , ICAN , IOC , IODE , ITIC , JCOMM , Tsunami