My research focuses on observations and the interpretation of the physical processes of the coastal and upper ocean. I am working on submesoscale (small-scale) eddies and fronts, air-sea gas exchange processes, rogue waves, as well as flow-topography interaction. The observations are carried out off Southern California, Bermuda, and the coastal waters of Western and Eastern Canada. Many aspects of this research are closely related to interdisciplinary chemical or biological processes. I am developing instrumentation for the measurements of submesoscale features, gas bubbles, and dissolved noble gases, and I have planned and outfitted UCLA's new research vessel.