Emmet Bush

Your name and pronouns:
Emmet Bush (he/they)

Senior thesis title and brief description:
I found some clay that advected off the continental margin of México in a nepheloid layer and advected laterally hundreds of kilometers into the open ocean of the Eastern Tropical North Pacific's oxygen deficient zone.

The nepheloid layer I am studying also has the dissolved methane peak, a nitrite peak, and dissolved iron(II) peak. These were likely diffused out of continental shelf pore water that also moved laterally along an isopycnal into the heart of the oxygen deficient zone. Before this study, it was suspected that this water parcel had coastal origin but the evidence of aluminosilicate clays supports that this water parcel came from the coast.

What was your best memory from the school of Oceanography?
My favorite memories have been on the ocean collecting samples. I have celebrated Rosh Hashana, Passover, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, and my birthday while at sea. I have enjoyed being fully nocturnal for one month on the ocean and watching the stars each night with Matt and Kahdijah. I now look up at the stars and see the same constellations I saw at sea and it brings me back to listening to music while gasping in awe at the milky way. Also seeing a ghost at sea was something I will never forget.

What was your favorite oceanography class and why?
I liked the geology-related classes. I am a big fan of sediment.

What has been your go to way to connect to your classmates remotely?
Sometimes I zoom with friends or text them.

Favorite non-ocean body of water?
Groundwater