Dr. Ayal Anis

Bio

Ayal Anis received his Ph.D. in physical oceanography from Oregon State University and joined  Texas A&M University at Galveston in 2000. His externally funded research focuses on fundamental issues of turbulence in oceans, estuaries, and lakes, on air-sea interactions, and on surface-wave processes. Several studies involve collaboration with researchers from Europe, Canada, Mexico, and Israel. Dr. Anis has made significant contributions to the physics of aquatic boundary layers and surface wave-turbulence interactions. He was also the first to observe and study oceanic adiabatic surface layers during convection. He teaches courses in oceanography, has developed upper-level courses in marine sciences, and regularly advises graduate and undergraduate students, and promotes the study of environmental sciences through presentations to high-school students.

Research Interests

• Mixing processes and turbulence in the surface and bottom boundary layers in the oceans and lakes
• Air-sea interactions and physics of heat and momentum transfer between the atmosphere and the aquatic boundary layer (specifically, convective and surface-wave related processes)
• Physical Oceanography of coastal regions
• Model-aided analysis of the response of lakes/coastal ocean to external forcing

Projects

• Physical Control of Nutrient Fluxes in Galveston Bay
• Acquisition of instruments to facilitate and enhance research projects and undergraduate education in aquatic environmental biogeochemistry at TAMUG
• Groundwater pollution and its impact on Bermuda’s reefs and inshore waters
• Pollutant Dispersion in Coastal Waters and Reef Systems
• FLOO - Fluxes Linking Offshore and Onshore: Transport of pollutants, nutrients, and larvae, and the effect on ecologically and economically important benthic species
• Wintertime cross shelf circulation and mixing on the central Israeli shelf

Experience

• Associate. professor, Marine Sciences & Oceanography, TAMU at Galveston, 2007 – present
• Assistant professor, Marine Sciences & Oceanography, TAMU at Galveston 2000 – 2006                        
• Research Associate, Dept. of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, 1998 – 1999
• Research Scientist, Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research, 1994 – 1998
• Research associate (post-doc), Tel-Aviv University, Israel, 1994 – 1996

Selected Publications

• Anis, A. 2006. Similarity Relationships in the Unstable Aquatic Surface Layer. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L19609, doi:10.1029/2006GL027268.
• Anis, A. and Singhal, G. 2006. Mixing in the Surface Boundary Layer of a Tropical Freshwater Reservoir. Journal of Marine Systems, 63:225-243.
• Vernieres, G., Anis, A., Miller, R.N., and Ehret, L.L. 2006: Generalized Inversion of Thermistor-Chain Data and a Layer Model of Lake Kinneret. Ocean Modeling, 12:112-139.
• Gal, G., Imberger, J., Zohary, T., Antanucci, J., Anis, A., and Rosenberg, T. 2003. Simulating the thermal dynamics of Lake Kinneret. Ecol. Modelling, 162:69-86.
• Reiss, C.S.,  Anis, A., Dower, J.F., Taggart, C.T., and Ruddick, B. 2002. Relationships among vertically structured in situ measures of turbulence, larval fish, their feeding success, and copepods on Western Bank, Scotian Shelf. Fish. Oceanogr., 11(3):156-174.
• Ruddick, B., Anis, A., and Thompson, K. 2000. Maximum Likelihood Spectral Fitting: The Batchelor Spectrum. J. Atmos. Oceanic. Tech., 17:1541-1555.
• Anis, A. 1998. On the structure of the upper oceanic boundary layer and the impact of surface waves. Physical Processes in Lakes and Oceans, Coastal and Estuarine Studies, 54:47-60.
• Anis, A. 1995.  Is the oceanic boundary layer simply and upside down atmospheric boundary layer? IUTAM Symposium - Physical Limnology, Broome, Australia, 1995:17-26.
• Anis, A. and Moum, J.N. 1995. Surface wave-turbulence interactions: scaling e(z) near the sea surface. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 25:2025-2045.
• Anis, A. and Moum, J.N. 1994. Prescriptions for heat flux and entrainment rates in the upper ocean during convection. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 24:2142-2155.
• Anis, A. and Moum, J.N. 1992. The superadiabatic surface layer of the ocean during convection. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 22:1221- 1227.
• Anis, A. 1992. On scaling turbulence kinetic energy dissipation rate near the surface of the ocean. Tenth Symposium on Turbulence and Diffusion, Portland, Oregon, 1992, 207-210.Shappir, J., A. Anis, and I. Pinsky, 1986. Investigation of MOS capacitors with thin ZrO2 layers and various gate materials for advanced DRAM applications. IEEE Trans. Electron. Devices, ED-33:442 – 449.

Links

• microstructure.tamug.edu