San Nguyen
Objective
To learn and discover new science in physical oceanography and to promote the younger generations to do the same through teaching and having hand-on experiences.
Languages
Vietnamese & English
Education
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
Ph. D. in Physical Oceanography, September 2006 - Present
Research on the affects of surface wind on the internal wave field
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
Master of Science in Oceanography, September 2006 - September 2007
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, USA
Bachelor of Science in Physics and Mathematics, Minor in Computer Science, September 2002 - May 2006
Organizational Memberships
Gach Noi, UCSD Vietnamese Student Magazine - Technical chancellor
Society of Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) - Member
Sigma Pi Sigma, the National Physics Honor Society - Member
Awards & Recognitions
Meritorious Winner of Mathematical Contest in Modeling - 2005
University of Puget Sound Dean’s List - 2004
Washington NASA Space Grant Undergraduate Research Award - 2004
Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) successful participant - 2003, 2004
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Mathematics and Science Award - 2002
Bausch & Lomb Honorary Science Award - 2002
Woodrow Wilson Principal’s Leadership & Services Award - 2002
Professional Experiences
Roger Revelle Research Vessel – Southwest Indian Ridge Mixing Experiment January – February 2008
· Helped maintain electronics and computer code of the High Definition Sonar System
· Deployment and recovery of wave-powered wirewalker
· Deep CTD cast deployments
Physical Oceanography Research Division - Scripps Institution of Oceanography La Jolla, CA May – July 2006
Student Research Associate
· Process and organized data from CLIVAR MOde Water Dynamics Experiment (CLIMODE) APEX Profiling Floats
· Designed automated scripts to display and update float data to general audience
http://www-pord.ucsd.edu/climode_apexfloats/index.html
University of Puget Sound Mathematics Department Tacoma, WA September 2004 – May 2006
Tutor
· Provided assistance to first and second year students in mathematics (calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations)
University of Puget Sound Physics Department Tacoma, WA September 2003 – May 2006
Laboratory Teaching Assistant
· Helped physics professor to administer laboratory experiments for first year students
· Helped to answers questions concerning the understanding physics and the procedures of experiments conducted
· Graded students’ laboratory reports
Research Experience of Undergraduates at University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR May – July 2005
Summer Research Assistant
· Studied optical properties of indium antimonide nanowires
· Learned the basic of solid state physics
· Simulated nanowires using computer model developed in Fortran programming language
Washington State NASA Space Grant Research Tacoma, WA June – September 2004
Summer Research Assistant
· Studied and modeled surface self-diffusion of amorphous solid water
· Improved and tested model using JAVA programming
Gaining Early Awareness & Readiness for Undergraduate Program (GEAR UP)
Tacoma, WA October 2002 – May 2005
Lead Tutor & Office Staff
· Provided help to middle and high school students with their homework & test taking strategies
· Prepared students for a sense of directions into the their future career goals and post high school education
Frank Russell Company Tacoma, WA June – August 2001
Help Desk Intern
· Aided Help Desk staffs with common task on computers and in office.
· Updated user profiles and phone numbers
· Computer inventory
· Software testing
· Remedy (Action – Request software)
· Panagon (networked library software)
· EDM, Radia, TS Census (networked software installer)