Neil Banas
is a coastal oceanographer and environmental humanities teacher at the University of Washington.
design work: → neilbanas.com
around the world in 71 days: → photos
Neil Banas
is a coastal oceanographer and environmental humanities teacher at the University of Washington.
design work: → neilbanas.com
around the world in 71 days: → photos
Teaching
Northwest Coastal Stories
Order, Chaos, and Resilience in Science and Culture
Honors A&S 253B / 222B, Spr 2009 (course website for students)
→ download syllabus
“Scales of variation in Puget Sound circulation”
(Computer lab handout for use with the Babson-Kawase-MacCready box model, Spr 2006)
Research
Ecosystem modeling for the Columbia River plume region (part of the RISE project)
→ Banas et al, " Planktonic growth and grazing in the Columbia River plume region" (JGR, 2009)
→ Banas et al, " The Columbia River plume as along-shelf barrier and cross-shelf exporter" (CSR, 2009)
→ Hickey and Banas, " Why is the northern end of the California Current System so productive?" (TOS, 2008)
Visualization tools and interactive models
My PhD work with Barbara Hickey was
Dynamics of Willapa Bay, Washington
Links to the coastal ocean, tidal dispersion, and oyster carrying capacity
Green crab larval retention in Willapa Bay, Washington: An intensive Lagrangian modeling approach
(Banas, MacDonald, and Armstrong, 2009)
→ manuscript (submitted to Estuaries and Coasts)
→ poster
“Priests, tricksters, and holy wanderers in the practice of natural history”
(Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion meeting, Eugene, OR, 2002)
Banas, Wang, and Yen (2004), Experimental validation of an individual-based model for zooplankton swarming (Handbook of Scaling Methods in Aquatic Ecology, Seuront & Strutton, eds., CRC Press) (1 MB manuscript / 19 MB scan)
Quiet Creatures: A Summer on Long Island
(masters thesis, Religious Studies, Univ of Colorado, 1998)
Art + Design
Around the world in 71 days
collections on flickr: thematic version / chronological version
Other photos
photostream: flickr.com/photos/neilbanas
all photos and unpublished work on this site fall under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial2.5 License.
