Henry G. Peterson

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I am a postdoctoral scholar working in Caltech's Environmental Science and Engineering option within the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences. I received my Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering from Caltech in 2025 and my B.A. in applied mathematics with an emphasis in fluid mechanics from UC Berkeley in 2019. At Caltech, I have worked with Jörn Callies to understand how enhanced turbulent mixing at the bottom of the ocean shapes the circulation of the abyss. As part of this work, I have developed an open-source finite element model of the large-scale ocean circulation in Julia. In 2025, thanks to a graduate fellowship with the Schmidt Academy for Software Engineering, I worked closely with experienced software engineers to improve the usability and testability of this model. Check out the project highlight on their webpage! The model is hosted on Github here; new users and feedback are welcome!

Feel free to contact me at hgpeterson "at" caltech "dot" edu.

Publications

Peterson, H. G. and J. Callies: The νPGCM: A flexible finite element model of the large-scale ocean circulation, in prep.

Peterson, H. G. and J. Callies, 2023: Coupling between abyssal boundary layers and the interior ocean in the absence of along-slope variations. J. of Phys. Oceanog. 53, 307–322. © Copyright 2023 AMS. [Journal, arxiv, PDF]

González-Cataldo, F., F. Soubiran, H. G. Peterson, and B. Militzer, 2020: Path integral Monte Carlo and density functional molecular dynamics simulations of warm dense MgSiO₃. Phys. Rev. B 101, 024107. [Journal, arxiv, PDF]

Peterson, H. G. and W. R. Boos, 2020: Feedbacks and eddy diffusivity in an energy balance model of tropical rainfall shifts. npj Clim. and Atm. Sci. 3, 11. [Journal, PDF]

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