Dr. Kerhalkhar will joing Seo Lab @ UH on September 2nd, 2025. He earned his PhD in Oceanography from the School for Marine Sciences and Technolgy at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (UMassD). He is a Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship awardee from the UMassD (2019-20,2021-2024) under the supervision of Prof. Amit Tandon. He is primarily study upper ocean processes and air-sea interaction at smaller length and time scales, with the aim of understanding how these processes influence larger-scale oceanic and atmospheric systems. For his PhD dissertation, I focus on the Diurnal Warm Layers in the Bay of Bengal, which evolves over a day and has potential implications on small scale ocean mixing, daily atmospheric convection and larger scale atmosphere processes like the Indian Summer Monsoons using in-situ observations, remote sensing and 1-D and 3-D numerical ocean modeling. Additionally, He has a keen interest in hurricanes/tropical cyclones, and he was fortunate to study the role of small-scale processes in the recovery of a cold-wake due to cyclone Biparjoy in 2023. At SeoLab at UH, he will work on surface waves influence on Arabian Sea mini-warm pool. https://kerhalkarsid.github.io