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Tracy Mandel

@tmanatee.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at University of New Hampshire in Ocean/Mechanical Engineering | Fluids nerd, climber, cat enthusiast | she/her

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Tracy Mandel @tmanatee.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
My group at UNH will be at the upcoming APS #DFD2025 meeting, presenting on a range of topics from water surface signatures of subsurface processes, to disease transmission in seagrass. Looking forward to connecting with the fluids community!
A schedule of talks by members of the Ocean Hydrodynamics Lab at APS DFD 2025.

C30:8: Spatially-resolved free-surface signatures of submerged counter-rotating vortex pairs
	Sandip Gautam, Tracy Mandel, David Nelson, & Sarah Morris
	Sunday, Nov. 23	10:31 AM – 12:31 PM
	Room: 371ABDE

J28:4: Behind the rhythms of free-surface thermal signatures: A tale of two length scales in a submerged buoyant jet
	Zeeshan Saeed, Chris White, & Tracy Mandel
	Sunday, Nov. 23	6:04-6:17 PM
	Room: 370BE

S00:150: Tidal flooding’s role in the spread of eelgrass wasting disease: Laboratory experiments
	Lyriq Turner, Marina Keller, Elijah Rousseau, & Tracy Mandel
	Monday, Nov. 24	4:35-5:35 PM
	Room: Hall A/1
S00:19: Impact of a model disease paste on the fluid-structure interaction dynamics of mimic seagrass
	Marina Keller, Lyriq Turner, Avery Wilson, Theresa Oehmke, & Tracy Mandel
	Monday, Nov. 24	4:35-5:35 PM
	Room: Hall A/1
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Ilaine S. Matos @ilainematos.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Hello! Could you help me advertise this PhD position on seagrass physiology and conservation? Thanks
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Hey fluids friends, we're recruiting in my department this year!
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Tracy Mandel @tmanatee.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
#OSM26 session alert! We're excited to invite abstract submissions for our session titled "Vegetation-Hydrodynamic Interactions in Coastal Environments." 🔗 Abstract submission: agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/pr... 🗓 Abstract Deadline: 20 August 2025 🌊 OSM 2026: Glasgow, Scotland, 22-27 February 2026
A graphic advertising AGU OSM 2026 session "Vegetation-Hydrodynamic Interactions in Coastal Environments (CP-013)", with topics including:

- Wave attenuation by coastal vegetation
- Vegetation resilience to extreme coastal events and ecological factors
- Novel methodologies for monitoring vegetation dynamics
- Hydrodynamic modeling of vegetation-induced turbulence
- Field and laboratory studies of vegetation effects on sediment trans

Session chairs are:
- Jiarui "Gary" Lei (National University of Singapore)
- Tracy Mandel (University of New Hampshire)
- Fei He (University of Oxford)
- Santhosh Kumar (CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography)
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Matilda Backholm @matildabackholm.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
📣 Open PhD and postdoc positions in my Living, Fluid, & Soft Matter group. These new researchers will work in my ERC StG project SWARM. Application deadline 3.8.2025. See links and details in the comments below.
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Tracy Mandel @tmanatee.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Congrats to Zeeshan on the publication of this paper in JoT! 🌀 Zeeshan showed that the physical thickness of a portion of the turbulent/non-turbulent interface is well described by a combination of the Kolmogorov and Taylor scales. doi.org/10.1080/1468...
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On the physical dimension of the turbulent sublayer at the turbulent/non-turbulent interface
The turbulent/non-turbulent interface (TNTI) is a thin fluid layer that separates rotational and irrotational flows, playing a critical role in the multi-scale process of entrainment. This work exa...
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Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her) @waterbarnes.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
nearly 11% of the NSF workforce was fired today. this WILL slow scientific progress. this is hurting families. we need to educate folks about all the GOOD that the gov't can do! To help @500womensci.bsky.social has made social media cards for what #NSF funds in each state: bit.ly/NSF_bystate
500 Women Scientists logo
"Science is under attack. We must fight back. Our lives depend on it"
What does NSF do?
the National Science Foundation
Created by Congress in 1950 as an independent agency to support the US scientific enterprise
93% of $9.06 billion budget went to grants & awards (FY24)
NSF supports 353,000 scientist, engineers & students across all 50 state and territories (FY 24)
NSF funds $1.4 billion in STEM education (FY 24)
NSF has funded 248 Nobel Prize winners
source: nsf-gov.resources.nsf.gov/
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Tracy Mandel @tmanatee.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
New paper alert! ⚠️ This was some very fun work done with my colleague Dr. Longhuan Zhu at UNH. We explored how plant motion affects light exposure in seagrass meadows. Now published in #aslo_lo! @aslo.org doi.org/10.1002/lno....
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Wave‐driven plant reconfiguration modifies light availability in seagrass meadows
Seagrasses are considered foundation species in marine and estuarine ecosystems by contributing biomass, providing habitat, and damping waves and currents. Globally, seagrass health and primary produ....
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Tracy Mandel @tmanatee.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Summer 2025 REU Opportunity! ☀️🌊🌱🪸 I am looking for an REU student this summer to work on an NSF-funded project exploring the physics of disease spread in seagrass and corals. Applications due Feb 3! eos.unh.edu/opportunitie...
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Earth, Oceans, and Space REU Program
The Earth, Oceans, and Space REU Program's primary goal is to provide a positive introduction to sensor-based Earth and space science research for underserved student populations.
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Tracy Mandel @tmanatee.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Updated to *3* CEPS professors! Incredibly excited and honored to lead this project studying the physical mechanisms that drive marine disease transmission in seagrass and coral ecosystems www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
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Three CEPS Professors Honored With NSF CAREER Awards
Three professors from the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences (CEPS) at UNH have been awarded the esteemed National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Development (CAREER) award.
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Tracy Mandel @tmanatee.bsky.social · 16/07/2024
Submit your abstract to OS030: Nearshore Processes at #AGU2024! Nearshore Processes is a well-established and well-attended session. Student participation is strongly encouraged! See you in DC in December! agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/pr...
Aerial photo of the coastal zone with text:
Submit your abstract to AGU Session OS030: Nearshore Processes!
Session ID: 226224
Link: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prelim.cgi/Session/226224

Abstracts due July 31, 2024
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Tracy Mandel @tmanatee.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
Petition to replace the technical definition of "void fraction" with a definition relating to the fraction of Void a cat's fur is. Exhibit A: foster cat Eclair, who is about 0.89 void (0.11 white mittens, neckerchief, and mustache).
A mostly-black cat with tiny white mustache, feet, and neck/tummy.
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Tracy Mandel @tmanatee.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
Come be my colleague! UNH is hiring a mid-career Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering! jobs.usnh.edu/postings/58718
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Tracy Mandel @tmanatee.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
Final semester grades submitted under the watchful eye of my supervisor 🐈‍⬛
A brown tabby sitting on his cat tree with his eyes closed, looking sleepy
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Tracy Mandel @tmanatee.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
It will be a busy Monday for Ocean Hydro Lab members and collaborators at #APSDFD2023! Excited for the annual inertial clustering of fluid mechanics researchers.
Schedule of talks by Tracy Mandel, Zeeshan Saeed, and Theresa Oehmke at the 2023 APS Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting.
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