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Matt Rayson is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Australia, specializing in physical oceanography with an emphasis on numerical modeling and the observation of stratified flows in coastal regions. His primary research focuses on the metocean components of offshore floating facilities, a pivotal component of the Australian Industrial Transformation Research Hub. Rayson has previously worked as a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University in the Bob Norma Street Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, where he developed numerical modeling tools to study circulation patterns in bays and estuaries of the Gulf of Mexico coast. He is an active user and developer of the SUNTANS unstructured grid ocean model. His general research interests encompass tide-topography interactions, internal tide generation, storm-generated near-inertial waves, nonlinear internal waves, hydrodynamic modeling, coastal ocean, and estuarine physics, as well as transport processes within coastal oceans, transitions in turbulence such as breaking internal waves, and uncertainty quantification in ocean modeling. Rayson is recognized for his efforts in advancing observational techniques and predictions related to marine heatwaves in Western Australia, amongst other collaborative projects.
University of Western Australia • Perth, WA
Teaching and researching in the field of physical oceanography.
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