December 10, 2023| ScienceAlert via UVic News; December 13, 2023| The Times of India via UVic News
A ‘rogue wave’ – a wave that is at least twice the size of any near it – appeared near Ucluelet, Vancouver Island in 2020. In February of 2022, researchers determined that it to be the largest such wave ever recorded.
Dr. Johannes Gemmrich, Research Scientist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and co-author Leah Cicon (a former graduate student of the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at UVic), wrote about the wave in their 2022 publication Generation mechanism and prediction of an observed extreme rogue wave. The paper was one of Nature Journal’s Top 100 Most Downloaded Papers in 2022.
Dr. Gemmrich, who was quoted in recent articles on the subject from both Science Alert and the Times of India, also has several of his papers posted in UVic’s institutional repository, UVicSpace. The Copyright and Scholarly Communications Office encourages you to browse UVicSpace and read more of Dr. Gemmrich’s work.
