Marco Sandoval Belmar

About me

My name is Marco Sandoval, I have a professional title in Geophysics (obtained 2018) from the Universidad de Concepción (UdeC), Chile. Currently, I'm a PhD student at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in the Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (AOS) Department.

I have a solid background in physics, mathematics, and computer science. Besides, I had taken several courses associated with Physical Oceanography with couplings in biogeochemical and biophysical processes. In addition, my training included experience in data analysis and processing tools given my computer skills in Matlab, Octave, Bash, ROMS, R, Python, Ichthyop, SeaDAS and DINEOF. 

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Currently, at AOS I'm under the supervision of PhD Daniele Bianchi learning how to set and run the Biogeochemistry/Ecosystem/Circulation (BEC) ROMS model  (Moore et al., 2002, 2004; Deutsch et al., 2019) to understand and model the Harmful Algal Bloom problem in California, USA.