Physical oceanographer Catherine Edwards has joined the faculty of the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography as an assistant professor.

Edwards  received both her bachelor’s degree in physics and her doctorate in physical oceanography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Florida State University.

Edwards is a coastal physical oceanographer with research interests in shelf-scale and nearshore processes. Her work includes modeling and observing coastal tidal, wind-forced, and density driven-dynamics, as well as coastal meteorology and air-sea interaction.

Edwards’ current projects include larval transport mechanisms for fisheries in the northeast Gulf of Mexico; the interaction of high frequency winds and currents in the South Atlantic Bight and Gulf of Mexico; tide-correlated eddies near the Gulf Stream; and the processes that transport nutrients and biomass onto the shelf of the South Atlantic Bight.