'’C’est pas l’homme qui prend la mer, c’est la mer qui prend l’homme’’ -Renaud

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Education
PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences
2017
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University
Thesis: Wave breaking in high wind speeds and its effect on air-sea gas transfer.
MPhil in Earth and Environmental Sciences
2011 - 2015
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University
MSci in Physical Oceanography
2007 - 2011
Southampton University
Dissertation: On the Upper Ocean Response to Tropical Cyclones - A study based on modeling, remotely sensed and in-situ observations
Experiences
Postdoctoral Reseacher
2021 - 2023
France Energies Marines, Plouzané, France
Working on the CASSIOWPE project
Postdoctoral Reseacher
2017 - 2021
French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER), Plouzané, France
Working on the AMICO project
Graduate Research Fellow
2011 - 2017
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in the City of New York, USA
Worked under supervision of Dr. Christopher Zappa on a variety of projects.
Teaching Assistant
2012 - 2015
Columbia University
Air-Sea Interaction; Introduction to Physical Oceanography; The Climate System; Introduction to Atmospheric Science.
Teaching Assistant
2010 - 2011
Southampton University
Quantitative Earth and Ocean Science.
Research Assistant
2009 - 2010
Hurricane Modeling Lab at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
Publications
  1. Fairall C.W., M. Yang, S.E. Brumer, B. Blomquist, J.B. Edson, S. Pezoa, C.J. Zappa, Ludovic Bariteau, Thomas G. Bell, and Eric S. Saltzman (2022), Air-sea trace gas fluxes: Direct and indirect measurements. Energy, Water, and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes at the Earth’s Surface, Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 826606. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.826606. [PDF]
  2. Brumer, S.E. , V. Garnier, J.-L. Redelsperger, M.-B. Bouin, Impacts of surface gravity waves on a coastal tidal front: a coupled modeling perspective. Ocean Modeling, 154, 101677. doi: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2020.101677. [PDF]
  3. Hooker G., S.E. Brumer, C.J. Zappa, E.C. Monahan (2020) Inferences to Be Drawn from a Consideration of Power-Law Descriptions of Multiple Data Sets Each Comprised of Whitecap Coverage, WB, and 10-m Elevation Wind Speed Measurements (U10). In: Vlahos P., Monahan E. (eds) Recent Advances in the Study of Oceanic Whitecaps. Springer, Cham. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-36371-0\_4
  4. Zappa, C.J., N.J.M. Laxague, S.E. Brumer, and S.P. Anderson (2019). The impact of wind gusts on the ocean thermal skin layer. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 11301–11309. doi: 10.1029/2019GL083687
  5. Brumer, S.E., C.J. Zappa, B.W. Blomquist , C.W. Fairall, A. Cifuentes-Lorenzen, J.B. Edson, I.M. Brooks, and B.J. Huebert. (2017). Wave-related Reynolds number parameterizations of CO2 and DMS transfer velocities. Geophys. Res. Letters, 44. doi: 10.1002/2017GL074979. [PDF]
  6. Blomquist, B.W., S.E. Brumer, C.W. Fairall, B.J. Huebert, C.J. Zappa, I.M. Brooks, M. Yang, L. Bariteau, J. Prytherch, J.E. Hare, H. Czerski, A. Matei and R.W. Pascal (2017). Wind Speed and Sea State Dependencies of Air-Sea Gas Transfer: Results From the High Wind Speed Gas Exchange Study (HiWinGS). J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 2169-9291, doi: 10.1002/2017JC013181. [PDF]
  7. Brumer, S.E., C.J. Zappa, I.M. Brooks, H. Tamura, S.M. Brown, B.W. Blomquist, C.W. Fairall, and A. Cifuentes-Lorenzen, 2017: Whitecap Coverage Dependence on Wind and Wave Statistics as Observed during SO GasEx and HiWinGS. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 47, 2211–2235, doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-17-0005.1. [PDF]
  8. Zappa, C.J., M.L. Banner, R.P. Morison and S.E. Brumer (2016). On the variation of the effective breaking strength in oceanic sea states. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 46(7), 2049-2061, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-15-0227.1. [PDF]
  9. Brumer S. E., C.J. Zappa, S.P. Anderson and J.P. Dugan (2016). Riverine Skin Temperature Response to Subsurface Processes in Low Wind Speeds, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 121, doi:10.1002/2015JC010746. [PDF]
Under Review
Brumer, S.E. and CJ. Zappa. A novel framework for gas transfer in wave breaking conditions.
In Preparation
Zappa, C.J., S.E. Brumer, C.W. Fairall, M.L. Banner, R.P. Morison, D. LeBel, X. Yan, and W.L. Peirson. Spray flux dependence on water side dissipation rate. To be submitted to JPO. Fairall C.W., S.E. Brumer, B. Blomquist, J.B. Edson, S. Pezoa, E. Thompson, M. Yang, and C.J. Zappa. Air-sea trace gas fluxes: Direct and indirect measurements. To be submitted to Energy, Water, and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes at the Earth’s Surface, Frontiers in Marine Science. Garnier V., S.E. Brumer, J. Pianezze, M. Accensi, A. Thevenin, T. Odaka, J.L. Redelsperger, M.-N. Bouin, F. Ardhuin. Evaluation of the air-sea interactions from a numerical ocean-atmosphere-wave coupled system dedicated to coastal processes : application to the Ushant front. To be submitted to GMD.
Fellowships and Awards
CNES postdoctoral fellowhip
2018
Centre National d'Études spatiales
For the project: Measuring waves in coastal seas and modeling their impact in the coupled atmosphere-ocean system.
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence
2017
European Commission
For the proposal: Surface Wave Impact on the Air-Sea Carbon Flux
Best oral presentation
2015
Annual Meeting of the American Meteorology Society, Phoenix, USA
For the talk: Observations of whitecaps during HiWinGS, their dependence on wave field and relation to gas transfer velocities
Chevron Student Initiative Fund Award
2013
Columbia University
Grant awarded to establish a Weather Station and Air Quality Monitor at LDEO.
Faculty Fellowship
2010 - 2012
Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Award for incoming PhD students in the Departement of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Programming Skills
OS: Windows, Linux, Unix (Mac, Solaris)
Languages: Python, Fortran, Matlab, LaTeX, Bash, Perl, kml