Frédéric Dupont, briefly

6 Brock Street B2Y-3S9 Dartmouth, Canada tel: (902) 463-3913 frederic.dupont8 at free.fr

• 2001: PhD in physical oceanography at McGill university in Montréal. Supervisors: Charles A. Lin., David N. Straub.
  The thesis is about Ocean Modelling, how to get the maximum accuracy in complex geometries using various numerical methods:
  • Finite Differences,
  • Finite Elements,
  • Finite Volumes,
  • Spectral Elements, for the Shallow Water and Quasi-Geostrophic models.
  
  
  
• 1996: DEA (french equivalent of master) in Meteorology, Oceanography, Environnement at Jussieu P6 Paris, France, mention Bien.
  Research period with V. Zeitlin from LMD.
• 1994: Engineer degree from Ecole Centrale de Nantes in Hydrodynamics and oceanic engineering, France.
  
  
• 1989: Scientific Bac, mention Bien, at lycée Calmette in Nice, France.
  

• 2003, the adaptive spectral element method and comparisons with more traditional formulations for ocean modeling. Dupont F., Lin, C. A., J. of Atmo. & Oceanic Tech. Under revision.
• 2002, Influence of a step-like coastline on the basin scale vorticity budget of mid-latitude gyre models. Dupont F., Straub D. N., Lin, C. A., Tellus A, Accepted.
• 2002, Modelling System for Tides. Dupont, F., C. G. Hannah, D. A. Greenberg, J. Y. Cherniawsky and C. E. Naimie Can. Tech. Rep. Hydrogr. Ocean Sci. 221: vii + 72 pp.
• 1998, On a possible mechanism of anomalous diffusion by Rossby waves. F. Dupont, R.I. McLachlan, V. Zeitlin. Physics of fluids, 10 3185-3183.
  
  
• A second paper related to my PhD thesis has been submitted. A third is in preparation.

• WOCE 98 et CMOS 98, Halifax, N.S. Poster for WOCE and presentation for CMOS.
• CMOS 99, Montreal, Q., conference.
• CMOS 2K, Victoria, B.C., conference.
• CFD 2K, Montreal, Q., conference.
• CMOS 2002, Rimouski, Q., conférence.

• 2001-2003: Postdoc NSERC visiting fellowship at BIO, Dartmouth, under the supervision of David Greenberg and Charles Hannah in coastal oceanography. Topics include: Development of a tidal assimilation system for the northwest Atlantic and comparison with existing data. A baroclinic study of the variability of the Slope Water from POP model output.
  
  
• Research and Teaching assistant at McGill since 1996. Details.
  
  
• 1996: Research period with V. Zeitlin from LMD.
  
  
• 1994-1995: Research engineer during my military service at the fluid mechanic laboratory, ENSTA (Ecole des Techniques avancées, Paris). Presentation of the results at "les Journées de l'hydrodynamique", Rouen, France, 1995.
• 1993: Three month in the Netherlands, in Wageningen in the MARIN reserch center. Validation project of a software forecasting the manoeuvrability of heavy vessels.
  
• 1991 et 1992, two summer jobs at Océ-Graphics, France, in the Marketing department. The firm builds large scale printers.

• cartoonist and reader.
• volunteer for Équiterre, a group promoting responsible and ecological consumerism and fair trade.