Congratulations to University of Otago PhD student, Mireya Montaño Orozco, on submitting her PhD thesis! In just over 3 years, Mireya completed an excellent modeling study on the whirls and swirls within the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. She developed and evaluated a 28-year, 1-km scale ROMS model nested within the national-scale Moana Project ROMS hindcast, provided a quantitative description of climatological Eulerian and Lagrangian characteristics, and looked at how modeled connectivity metrics were influenced by biological traits of green-lipped mussels. Excited to have you as a colleague and collaborator!

