{"id":2652,"date":"2020-05-04T10:34:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T16:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/?p=2652"},"modified":"2025-07-07T14:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T20:48:04","slug":"michal-kopera-computing-phd-faculty-awarded-over-200000-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/2020\/05\/04\/michal-kopera-computing-phd-faculty-awarded-over-200000-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Michal Kopera, Computing Ph.D. Faculty, Awarded Over $200,000 in Funding for Prototype Ocean Model"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/about-us\/directory\/faculty\/\">Dr. Michal Kopera<\/a> was recently awarded $259,248 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onr.navy.mil\/\">Office of Naval Research<\/a> funding to collaborate on a prototype of a new ocean model for the U.S. Navy. Kopera will work on this project with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coaps.fsu.edu\/alan-wallcraft\">Allan Wallcraft<\/a>, Eric Chassignet, and Alexandra Bozec at the Florida State University&#8217;s Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies and <a href=\"https:\/\/frankgiraldo.wixsite.com\/mysite\">Frank Giraldo<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/nps.edu\/\">Naval Postgraduate School<\/a>. The project will also involve Chithkala Dhulipati, an undergraduate research assistant at Boise State&#8217;s Math Department. The prototype will build on Kopera&#8217;s current project NUMO, which aims to build an ocean model capable of high-fidelity simulations of glacier\/ocean interaction in Greenland fjords. The researchers will evaluate how effective the mathematical and computational methods used in NUMO will be for a global ocean model. If the prototype is successful, it could be turned into an operational model used for Navy operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The prototype will use high-order Galerkin methods, already used in the Navy\u2019s next-generation weather prediction system NEPTUNE, on which I have worked during my postdoc at the Naval Postgraduate School. It will also base on the tools I have developed for the Non-hydrostatic Uniform Model of the Ocean NUMO, which I have been working on for the past four years.&#8221; -Michael Kopera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Michal Kopera was recently awarded $259,248 in the Office of Naval Research funding to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3403,"featured_media":2653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-2652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-program-news","tag-awards-and-funding"],"acf":[],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/981\/2020\/05\/Michal-Kopera-819x1024.jpg","author_name":"chrismurphy9","cats":["Program News"],"featured_caption":"Michal Kopera, Math, studio portrait by Emma Thompson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11063,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions\/11063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}