Roxy’s Resume
Created by rocksea on 16 Dec 2005 | Category: prakriti
Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change
viale Aldo Moro, 44, Bologna 40127, Italy
Off: +39 0513782629 Cell: +39 3663497627
Kollamparambil, Edamattom P.O.
Kottayam (dt), Kerala 686588, India
Tel: +91 (0) 4822 237646 Cell: +91 9495684297
Objective
Life: Seek thine own truth. Live life.
Career: To understand how the oceans and the atmosphere work together
The Person
- Age, date of birth : 30 years on terra firma, 29th March 1979
(so ask me (i ask 2 much 2 myself) what i’ve done, what i’ve acquired, how i lived these 30 years??)- Citizenship : Indian born in Nigeria, brought up in Kerala, higher studies in Japan, now in Italy
- Religious beliefs : nothing as such, atheistically inclined agnostic, though Roman Catholic by birth.
- The person : | simple = complicated | careful = careless | body = mind | revolutionary | universal love | oneness | restless | past = present = future | heart of a mallu but one world filosofy | fuel = knowledge |
- The philosophy : i live as i please, i wander where i like; i go in and out each day according to my pleasure;i move where my inclination leads me; i assume all the forms which it pleases me to assume; i am flourishing; i am prosperous; i am a perennial youth in the garden of immortality.
- Languages Known : Malayalam (mother tongue), English (medium of instruction and communication in school & university), Hindi (national language), Japanese (hiragana, katakana), Italian (poco!)
- Interests and activities : Nature (flows thru my blood) conservation, Oceanography (career n love), Astrophysics (childhood fascination, Stephen Hawkings), Ornithology (passion), Reading (i cant live without books), Poetry (feels better with it, letters, mostly) , Swimming (relaxing), Music (melodies n dance), Traveling (by foot or by heart , wherever my mind/ foot carries me), Metaphysics (retrieving/finding out the senses we lost/unaware of), Philosophy, Table Tennis (not much of a player), Photography (always carry my camera along; i donno when this butterfly will come along), Cooking (if am in the mood), Website designing, Reading minds..
- Hobbies : Philately (thematic collection, 15 albums, collecting from childhood), Numismatics, Feather collection
Work/Education
Work/Research Experience
Working as Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change, Italy, on the climate variability and change in the Euro-Mediterranean region using coupled GCM (INGV-SXG). Feb 2008 –Worked as Research Assistant (Japanese Govt. Center of Excellence Research Assistantship) at Hokkaido University, on Asian Monsoon and its relationship with SST over Indian/Pacific Oceans on intraseasonal timescales. Apr 2004 – Jul 2007 (3+ years).
Worked as Junior Research Fellow at National Institute of Oceanography, India, on the coastal oceanographic processes, dynamics and influencing factors along the west coast of India. Feb 2003- Feb 2004 (1 year).
Academic Qualifications
PhD in Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (June 2007)Junior Research Fellowship (CSIR), National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India (2003 - ’04)
Master of Science in Physical Oceanography
Cochin University of Science & Technology, Kochi, India (Feb 2003) with second rankPublications
Mathew Roxy and Youichi Tanimoto, 2009: Role of SST in influencing the intraseasonal variability of the South China Sea summer monsoon. to be submitted to Geophysical Research Letters.Mathew Roxy and Youichi Tanimoto, 2007: Role of SST over the Indian Ocean in influencing the intraseasonal variability of the Indian summer monsoon. Journal of Meteorological Society of Japan, 85(3) [pdf].
S.S.C. Shenoi, Mathew Roxy, and co-authors, 2005: Hydrography and water masses in the southeastern Arabian Sea during March-June 2003, Journal of Earth System Science, 114(5), 475-491 [pdf].
Mathew Roxy and S. R. Shetye, 2003: Evolution of thermocline off Kochi: a test of the role of local wind-forcing in driving of the coastal circulation. ARMEX Workshop on Data Analysis and Initial Scientific Results. NIOT, India, 2003.
S.S.C. Shenoi, Mathew Roxy, and co-authors, 2003: Temperature-salinity structure in the southeastern Arabian Sea during ARMEX Phase II. ARMEX Workshop on Data Analysis and Initial Scientific Results. NIOT, India, 2003.
Conference Presentations
Mathew Roxy and Silvio Gualdi, 2008: Teleconnections between the Indian Monsoon and the Mediterranean Sea as simulated by a coupled General Circulation Model (INGV–SXG). Paper presented at the European Conference on Applied Climatology, EMS, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Oct 2008.
Mathew Roxy and Silvio Gualdi, 2008: Teleconnections affecting the Mediterranean Sea, as observed in a coupled General Circulation Model. Paper presented at the MedCLIVAR-ESF Workshop on “Climate variability over the Mediterranean area: atmospheric and oceanic components”, Rhodes, Greece, Sep 2008.
Mathew Roxy and Youichi Tanimoto, 2006: Intraseasonal variability of air sea interaction over the Indian Ocean and its influence on regional and intraseasonal variability of the Indian monsoon. Paper presented at the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society Conference (AOGS 2006), Singapore, July 2006.
Mathew Roxy and S. R. Shetye, 2003: Evolution of thermocline off Kochi: a test of the role of local wind-forcing in driving of the coastal circulation. ARMEX Workshop on Data Analysis and Initial Scientific Results. NIOT, India, 2003.
Research Interests
Ocean atmospheric dynamics and interaction, tropical intraseasonal variability, Indian Ocean, Asian monsoon, SST – convection feedback, coupled general circulation modeling for climate variability predictions – on global and regional scales.
Responsibilities
Reviewer of scientific journals (Climate Dynamics, J. Met. Soc. Japan, Atmopheric Research, Int. J. Climatology).Administrator and cofounder, Oceanographers Net, largest online oceanographic community, www.oceanographers.net
Editor, Ocean Section, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) Newsletter, 2006-’07.
Cruise/Observational Experience
Kuroshio Extension System Study (KESS) cruise, 15 June – 18 July, 2005 on US R/V Roger Revelle.Arabian Sea Monsoon Experiment (ARMEX) cruise, March 13 – April 10, 2003 on R/V Sagar Kanya.
On board Oceanographic skills: Radio Sonde, SODAR, CTD operation, LADP.
Numerical Modeling
Experience in the compilation, running, post-processing of INGV-SXG (SINTEX), a coupled atmosphere ocean sea-ice general circulation model.
Details: The atmosphere component is ECHAM 5 and the ocean component is OPA 9, coupled through OASIS 2.4.Experience in using NEC SX-8 supercomputers for climate modeling.
Scientific/Computational Skills
Processing: MatLab 7, CDO (Climate Data Operators), NCL (NCAR)
Visualization: Ferret, GRaDS, GMT
Shell scripting on Unix/Linux platforms.
Computational skills on using NETCDF and other formats, for large reanalysis and observational data sets (ERA40, JRA-25, NCEP, TRMM), processing, plotting and analyzing data using different statistical techniques.
Other Computing Skills
Higher Diploma in Software Engineering (1998-2001), APTECH Computer Education (ISO), India.
Operating Systems: Unix/Linux/Solaris, Win9X, WinXP, Win Vista
Languages: C++, Visual Basic 6.0, FORTRAN 90/77, PHP, HTML, novice in PERL.
Database: SQL, MS Access, Oracle 9.0.
Office tools: MS Office (Word, Excel …), Website designing, Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator.
Fellowship/Scholarship/Award
Some other achievements (esp. in school/college)
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