Benjamin Scheifele

Benjamin Scheifele is a Physical Oceanographer and Data Scientist who recently completed his Ph.D. with Stephanie Waterman at the University of British Columbia. For his Ph.D., he used ocean gliders (think "underwater drones") to study ocean turbulence and mixing in the Arctic Ocean. The purpose of that work is to understand how thermal energy stored in the ocean can contribute to the dramatic loss of sea ice that we've observed in the Beaufort Sea over the last two decades.

For his Masters thesis, Benjamin studied mixing by double diffusion using measurements in the 10,000 year old relic seawater of a deep, coastal BC lake. For his undergraduate thesis, he used high-performance computing systems to study how impurities impact phase changes in natural systems (e.g. how do atmospheric pollutants induce rain drop formation). For more info, see "Publications".

Benjamin's work is affiliated with the Canadian Arctic GEOTRACES Program and is supported through the Canada Vanier Graduate Scholarships Program and the Killam Doctoral Scholarships Program. His PhD thesis is partially supervised by Jeff Carpenter at the Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht.