Brandy Cervantes

Senior Research Associate I

Current Research

My current role in CEOAS is split between conducting research in the field of observational coastal physical oceanography with Melanie Fewings’ group and performing data reviews and analyses for the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Endurance Array team. The data I analyze for OOI includes physical and biological variables relevant to the research projects in the Fewings Lab, leading to mutually beneficial knowledge of OOI data and other datasets in the Northern California Current region.

Education

Ph.D. Physical Oceanography, Oregon State University, College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences, 2004
B.S. Atmospheric, Oceanic & Space Sciences, University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Cum Laude, 1997

Publications

Cervantes, B.T., Fewings, M.R., and Risien, C.M., 2024. Subsurface temperature anomalies off central Oregon during 2014–2021. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129, DOI: 10.1029/2023JC020565.

Risien, C.M., Hough, K.R, Waddell, J., Fewings, M.R., and Cervantes, B.T., 2024. Hydrographic shipboard profile data collected within Olympic coast national marine sanctuary, 2005–2023, Data in Brief, 53, DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2024.110171.

Risien, Craig M., Cervantes, Brandy T., Fewings, Melanie R., Barth, John A. and Kosro, P. Michael, 2023: A stitch in time: Combining more than two decades of mooring data from the central Oregon shelf, Data in Brief, 48, DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2023.109041.

Kurapov, A.L., D.L. Rudnick, B.T. Cervantes, and C.M. Risien, 2022. Slope and shelf flow anomalies off Oregon influenced by the El Niño remote oceanic mechanism in 2014-2016. Journal of Geophysical Research, DOI: 10.1029/2022JC018604.

Sundermeyer, M.A, D.A. Birch, J.R. Ledwell, M.D. Levine, S.D. Pierce, B.T. Cervantes, 2020. Dispersion in the Open Ocean Seasonal Pycnocline at Scales of 1-10 km and 1-6 days, Journal of Physical Oceanography, DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-19-0019.1.

Sundermeyer, M.A., E. Skyllingstad, J.R. Ledwell, B. Concannon, E.A. Terray, D.A. Birch, S.D. Pierce, B.T. Cervantes, 2014. Observations and numerical simulations of large-eddy circulation in the ocean surface mixed layer, Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061637.

Kuebel Cervantes, B.T. and J.S. Allen, 2006. Numerical Model Simulations of Continental Shelf Flows off Northern California, Deep Sea Research Part II, DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2006.07.004.

Largier, J.L., C.A. Lawrence, M. Roughan, D.M. Kaplan, E.P. Dever, C.E. Dorman, R.M. Kudela, S.M. Bollens, F.P. Wilkerson, R.C. Dugdale, L.W. Botsford, N. Garfield, B.T. Kuebel Cervantes, D. Koracin, 2006. WEST: A northern California study of the role of wind-driven transport in the productivity of coastal plankton communities, Deep-Sea Research Part II, DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2006.08.018.

Kuebel Cervantes, B.T., J.S. Allen, and R.M. Samelson, 2004: Lagrangian Characteristics of Continental Shelf Flows Forced by Periodic Wind Stress, Nonlin. Proc. Geophys., 11 (1), 3-16.

Kuebel Cervantes, B.T., J.S. Allen, and R.M. Samelson, 2003: A Modeling Study of Eulerian and Lagrangian Aspects of Shelf Circulation off Duck, North Carolina, J. Phys. Oc.,33 (10), 2070-2092.