Alfredo L. Aretxabaleta

Alfredo L. Aretxabaleta is a physical oceanographer with US Geological Survey (USGS) at the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center. He woks on sediment transport problems in the coastal ocean, including cohesion and resuspension processes. He also studies the effects of storms and changing climate on coastal water levels. He has worked on observation, data assimilation, and real-time forecasting relative to harmful algal blooms and fish recruitment in the western Atlantic, and he has worked at the Institut de Ciencies del Mar (Barcelona) in the satellite sensing of ocean salinity.