Mariano is a mathematician who studies the ocean and his research interests are ocean currents, ocean prediction, data assimilation, Lagrangian data analyzes, regional heat balances, biophysical variability, and fish tagging.
Mariano’s primary research is predicting how stuff such as oil, fish larvae, and lost objects move at the ocean surface due to ocean currents, winds, and waves. This research involves producing the best estimates of the currents and wind speeds and direction, parameterizing the effects of waves and other unresolved motion, numerical simulation of particle trajectory, and estimating the error in the particle trajectories.