{"id":1810,"date":"2024-11-09T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/2024\/11\/09\/donya-frank-gilchrist-06\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T13:39:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T20:39:55","slug":"donya-frank-gilchrist-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/2024\/11\/09\/donya-frank-gilchrist-06\/","title":{"rendered":"Donya Frank-Gilchrist &#8217;06"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Donya is a research oceanographer with the US Geological Survey. She recently published an <a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2023JF007620\">article on one of the first direct measurements of vortex-trapped sand grains by turbulent coherent structures or vortices shed from ripple<\/a>s, which was hypothesized over 30 years ago. Understanding these small-scale processes can help us improve the accuracy of large-scale sand transport predictions. This research was conducted with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command of the U.S. Navy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donya is a research oceanographer with the US Geological Survey. She recently published an article on one of the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,82,9,24,11],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20","category-careers","category-class-year","category-engineering","category-major"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2230,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/2230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}