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Douglas Vandemark

Research Professor/Affiliate Professor
Affiliate Research Professor
Phone: (603) 862-0195
Office: Morse Hall, Room 141, Durham, NH 03824
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My research interests lie in air-sea interactions with a focus on ocean remote sensing of wind waves and the air-sea exchange of momentum, heat, and mass including greenhouse gases. Funded projects often involve the use of microwave remote sensing systems including altimetry, scatterometry, radiometry, and synthetic aperture radar as well as in situ measurement techniques and instrumentation - applied at regional and global scales. Our group is also developing observation platforms and sensors to support improved measurements. Recent research includes participation as a Principal Investigator on several NASA science teams including those for SWOT, Ocean Surface Topography, Ocean Vector Wind, Ocean Sea Surface Salinity, and GLIMR.

Education

  • Ph.D., Earth Science: Oceanography, University of New Hampshire
  • M.S., Engineering, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • B.S., Hope College

Research Interests

  • Air/Sea Boundary Interactions
  • Carbon Dioxide
  • Earth Satellite Applications
  • Electromagnetic Propagation
  • Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layers
  • Physical Oceanography

Selected Publications

  • Grodsky, S. A., Vandemark, D., & Levin, J. C. (2025). An Eastern Gulf of Maine Salinity Index for Monitoring Winter Scotian Shelf Inflow and Its Relation to Coastal and Interior Pathways. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130(5). doi:10.1029/2024jc021891

  • Runge, J. A., Thompson, C. R. S., Shellito, S., Dullaert, E. C., Honda, I. A., Vandemark, D., . . . Ji, R. (2025). Zooplankton monitoring at fixed station time series records responses of the foundation species, Calanus finmarchicus, to seasonal and multiannual drivers in the western Gulf of Maine. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 82(4). doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsaf037

  • Wang, C., Stopa, J. E., Vandemark, D., Foster, R., Ayet, A., Mouche, A., . . . Sadowski, P. (2025). A multi‐tagged SAR ocean image dataset identifying atmospheric boundary layer structure in winter tradewind conditions. Geoscience Data Journal, 12(1). doi:10.1002/gdj3.282

  • Mazaleyrat, E., Tran, N., Amarouche, L., Vandemark, D., Feng, H., Dibarboure, G., & Bignalet-Cazalet, F. (2024). Analysis of High-Frequency Sea-State Variability Using SWOT Nadir Measurements and Application to Altimeter Sea State Bias Modelling. Remote Sensing, 16(23), 4361. doi:10.3390/rs16234361

  • Li, H., Chapron, B., Vandemark, D., Lin, W., Hauser, D., He, Y., & Collard, F. (2024). A Novel Sea State Classification Scheme of the Global CFOSAT Wind and Wave Observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129(11). doi:10.1029/2023jc020686

  • Bakker, D. C. E., Pfeil, B., Landa, C. S., Metzl, N., O'Brien, K. M., Olsen, A., . . . Xu, S. (2016). A multi-decade record of high-quality fCO(2) data in version 3 of the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT). EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA, 8(2), 383-413. doi:10.5194/essd-8-383-2016

  • Le Quere, C., Moriarty, R., Andrew, R. M., Canadell, J. G., Sitch, S., Korsbakken, J. I., . . . Zeng, N. (2015). Global Carbon Budget 2015. EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA, 7(2), 349-396. doi:10.5194/essd-7-349-2015

  • Zibordi, G., Holben, B., Slutsker, I., Giles, D., D'Alimonte, D., Melin, F., . . . Seppala, J. (2009). AERONET-OC: A Network for the Validation of Ocean Color Primary Products. JOURNAL OF ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC TECHNOLOGY, 26(8), 1634-1651. doi:10.1175/2009JTECHO654.1

  • Chen, G., Chapron, B., Ezraty, R., & Vandemark, D. (2002). A global view of swell and wind sea climate in the ocean by satellite altimeter and scatterometer. JOURNAL OF ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC TECHNOLOGY, 19(11), 1849-1859. doi:10.1175/1520-0426(2002)0191849:AGVOSA>2.0.CO;2

  • Elfouhaily, T., Chapron, B., Katsaros, K., & Vandemark, D. (1997). A unified directional spectrum for long and short wind-driven waves. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS, 102(C7), 15781-15796. doi:10.1029/97JC00467

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