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Dr. Fraser Davidson, Dr. Andry William Ratsimandresy, Adam Lundrigan, Debbie Power
Dr. Fraser J. M. Davidson
Research Scientist, Physical Oceanography
Biological and Physical Oceanography Section
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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Fraser Davidson
Fraser Davidson is a research scientist with DFO based at the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre in
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador since 2003. Fraser obtained his PhD from Memorial University in 1999.
He has worked at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia on internal tides,
at the French research council LEGOS laboratories in Toulouse, France and with MERCATOR-Ocean,
the French ocean forecasting service in Toulouse France. His research interests include regional ocean forecasting,
wind driven ocean current dynamics, validation of ocean forecast systems, as well as applications of ocean forecasting
to various areas of research including biology and search and rescue drift theory to name a few.
Fraser participates in the DFO Centre for Ocean Model Development and Application (COMDA),
a DFO virtual centre of excellence.
He also collaborates on the GODAE (Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment) Science working team.
Fraser leads the CNOOFS Canadian pilot project
in operational oceanography to implement and validate a new operational ocean forecasting system for DFO
and Environment Canada.
Dr. Andry William Ratsimandresy
(NSERC) Visiting Scientist, Physical Oceanography
Biological and Physical Oceanography Section
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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Andry William Ratsimandresy
Andry William Ratsimandresy is a NSERC visiting scientist with DFO based at the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Andry obtained his PhD in physical oceanography from the University of Las
Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain in 2002.
He is responsible for the implementation of the ocean forecast system within the
C-NOOFS project, which includes everything related to the numerical model and
the output. He is also involved in the validation of the whole system.
Adam Lundrigan
Computer Systems Programmer, Physical Oceanography
Biological and Physical Oceanography Section
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Email:
Adam Lundrigan
Within the C-NOOFS project, Adam Lundrigan is primarily responsible for the development of intranet applications for quality assurance and data management, as well as maintenance of the project's Linux and Solaris servers. Adam is a Computer Science graduate of Memorial University. His background primarily includes application development in Java, web application development in PHP, and server set-up and maintenance.
Debbie Power
Computer Systems Programmer, Physical Oceanography
Biological and Physical Oceanography Section
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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Debbie Power
Debbie contributes to the C-Noofs project as a web designer and computer programmer. Her programming and
design background includes application development, implementation and testing;
website development (static and database driven); e-Commerce development (online transactions),
data management and processing; PDA and handheld application development;
java application development and implementation; the .NET Framework; scripting and utilities;
graphic arts; and network administration.
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