Professor Brandon J Bethel
Assistant Professor of Marine, University of The Bahamas
Brandon J Bethel, PhD, is an assistant professor of marine at Small Island Sustainability at University of The Bahamas. His field of expertise includes ocean numerical modeling, observations, and artificial intelligence methods in oceanography. His interests lie on and across the air-sea interface with particular attention placed on ocean surface gravity waves in mean states and under forcing by tropical cyclones, blue economy activities, and ocean renewable energy. He is currently working on using and optimizing high-resolution numerical ocean models for operational activities, developing new statistical and artificial intelligence-based methodologies for metocean forecasts, and developing physics-informed neural networks for supporting, enhancing, and supplanting numerical models.
Concerning the United Nations’ Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) and the Sustainability Development Goals, he actively researches a variety of geophysical parameters. These are inclusive of but not limited to solar radiation, wind speed and direction, wave height, period and direction, and current velocity to harness ocean renewable energy in The Bahamas and throughout the Caribbean.
