Neil Banas
is a coastal oceanographer and environmental humanities teacher at the University of Washington.
design work: → neilbanas.com
2008 travel blog: → 71days.tumblr.com
Oceanography, Box 355351
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
206 221 4402
neil at ocean.washington.edu
Teaching
Turbulence and Uncertainty in Science and in Culture
Honors A&S 253 C, Spr 2006
“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, submitted)
→ Banas et al, " The Columbia River plume as along-shelf barrier and cross-shelf exporter" (CSR, in press)
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
Invasive European green crab larval retention in Willapa Bay
(Banas, MacDonald, and Armstrong, 2008)
→ 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
Some photos
all photos and unpublished work on this site fall under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial2.5 License.
