GeoResources Institute Wishes Best to Associate Research Professor

February 27, 2004

On Wednesday, 25 February 2004, the staff at GRI's Stennis office gathered at a localmexican restaurant in Slidell to bid farewell to Dr. Avichal Mehra who hasbeen offered a position at the National Center for Environemtnal Predictionin the DC area. Dr. Mehra will be working in the World Weather Buildingalong with some 500 plus NOAA associated professionals. Quite a change fromthe uncrowded environment at GRI Stennis. He expects that his 15 minuteride to work each day may take up to an hour or more if he leaves too late.

Dr. Mehra had joined GRI Stennis in 1995 when it was called the Center forAir Sea Technology. He came to us as a post doctoral assistant from theUniversity of Virginia and leaves 9 years later as an Associate ResearchProfessor. His area of research was primarily numerical ocean modeling, butin recent years he had also assisted in enterprise computational servicesdevelopment applied to a numerical modeling infrastructure. He will bemissed. We wish him well in this career challenge.