Jamie Brenner

Checked my Zotero storage out of curiosity and looks like I’ll be needing to upgrade my yearly plan again 😅 I keep saving everything even tangentially related to my research

Powerpoint slide with the title “Numerical Studies on Wind and Wave Interactions Affecting Momentum Transfer and Drag” and underneath says “Jamie Brenner, Advisor: Prof. Lian Shen, Prof. Cari Dutcher, Prof. Meera Ramaswamy, Prof. Judy Yang”

White dude with brown hair and glasses in a blue suit and tie in front of a powerpoint slide

I just passed my preliminary exam!

I’ll be researching how drag and momentum transfer over the ocean are affected by high speed winds, misaligned wind and waves, and coasts. Hopefully my research will aid in the improvement of current forecasting models for hurricanes and coastal weather. 🌊

I’m glad you are able to get accommodations! They can honestly be life changing. Hopefully your advisor has been understanding while you navigate this.

I’m always baffled when people despise PDEs because I think they’re fun to solve and you can model so many different phenomena with them!

One of my lab mates told me recently he didn’t even like math and I was shocked because we are a CFD lab and the appeal of that to me was the math.

Finally starting to actually get some results from my simulations and slowly making them more realistic. Very exciting to be able to see the effect of including actual bathymetric data and seeing the waves shoal. Now I just need to get Mann’s model for synthetic turbulence in the atmosphere to work.

garlic cheesy bread on a platter with poinsettia art on the edges

Not related to research, but I just made some gluten free garlic cheesy pull-apart bread for my family’s holiday get-together! It’s been nice to have a bit of a break to read for fun and to bake the past few days.

(Recipe is from The Loopy Whisk’s new cookbook)

With the massive influx of people to 🦋 in the past few weeks, these starter packs have kept growing.

🌊 Go have a look to see if you have missed some people who arrived later!

I curate physical and polar oceanography, so let me know if you want to be added 🙋‍♀️

People don’t always hear or see the effects they leave on another, and as an advocate for student needs, I am hopeful for the opportunity to reach a larger audience through the field of education policy.

I thought of a sneaky way to find my people on this thing.

Self-identify and I will add you...

See you at APS-DFD!

go.bsky.app/8Njfprh

GitHub - introocean/introocean-en: Introduction to Physical Oceanography by R. Stewart Introduction to Physical Oceanography by R. Stewart - introocean/introocean-en

"Introduction to Physical Oceanography" by R. Stewart is now on GitHub. Free for everyone as it always was.

github.com/introocean/i...

that’s a huge accomplishment! it looks so warm and cozy too.

Some of my lab mates ordered food for everyone for our lab meeting and they ordered everything gluten free so that I could also eat everything 🥹

Observational Air-Sea Interactions - Assistant Professor University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

🌊 We're hiring! Seeking someone working on air-sea interactions to come join us at Scripps. Happy to answer any questions about the job or life at Scripps. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03874

If anyone has any must-reads for their field (or not in their field), I would love to add more books to my to-read list. I’ll add another one of mine, In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems by Giorgio Parisi.

My professor quoted “Using a term like nonlinear science is like referring to the bulk of zoology as the study of non-elephant animals” (S.M. Ulam) in lecture today and I got to tell everyone about one of my favorite autobiographies (Adventures of a Mathematician by S.M. Ulam).

This place could use a chunky dose of delicious satellite imagery.

So here are some of my favorites I've shared over the years.

Impossible to not start with the unbeatable, the epic...

von Karman vortices

A large, diverse group of coastal engineers and scientists in front of a dining hall at UW-Madison during YCSEC-A 2023.

Just thinking of this because I came across this picture from YCSEC-A 2023 and was thankful of all the opportunities my former PI provided, including helping host and organize this conference! Truly one of the best years of my adult life.

I hope my undergrad research advisor knows how grateful I am that he took a chance on me joining his lab as a senior. Within that year I was co-author on my first paper, conducted research at a university in another country, presented at and organized my first conference, and got into a PhD program!

I’m interested! :)

Anyone else really struggling to find motivation this past week? It’s been a difficult past few months for me, both with research and my personal life, but the past week has been so hard. If you’ve felt like this before, what got you through it?

I’ve been helping my mom write her PhD application essay and I really hope she gets in. The field of education policy is going to be even more important in the coming years and I hope she has the opportunity to help shape it and continue to advocate for marginalized students. 🥹

I’m in my second year and I feel like it’s worse than it was last year 😅 I don’t know how much of the ‘barely staying afloat’ feeling stems from academia or from the current state of the world though.

I’d love to be added, I’m a PhD student modeling wind and wave interactions near coasts!

Could I possibly get added to the physical oceanography list? I do wind/wave research.

I really liked Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir and Scythe by Neal Shusterman, they were both easy to get into and interesting to read. A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini are another two of my top books, but they’re a very different vibe than the first two.

Hey everyone, I’m Jamie (he/they) and a mechanical engineering PhD student at the University of Minnesota. I’ve been researching coastal wind/wave interactions and high-speed winds over breaking winds using computational fluid dynamics. Outside of school, I love reading, baking, and playing sudoku.