Executive Committee
Piers Chapman, Principal Investigator
979.845.7211
Research interests: Nutrient cycling, large-scale water mass identification and circulation, the marine iodine cycle, the physical oceanography and chemistry of upswelling systems, and oil pollution prevention
Scott Socolofsky, Co-Principal Investigator
979.845.4517
Research interests: Environmental Fluid Mechanics, multiphase flow, direct ocean carbon sequestration, reservoir management, stratified fluids, shallow flow stability, shallow starting jet vortices, tidal inlet mixing, wetland hydrodynamics, aquatic vegetation
Steven DiMarco
979.862.4168 or 979.458.9323
Research interests: Observational oceanography and ocean observing systems, physical oceanography of the Gulf of Mexico and southwest Indian Ocean, hypoxia of the northern Gulf of Mexico, data processing methods, nonlinear surface wave interaction, impact of extreme wind events on shelf circulation
Robert Hetland
979.458.0096
Research interests: Regional and coastal numerical modeling, continental shelf dynamics, and estuaries and river plumes
John Kessler
588.273.4572
Research interests: Isotope biogeochemistry, methane dynamics in oceanic systems, and earth systems in general, the Gulf of Mexico, Alaskan Arctic, Bering Sea, Cariaco Basin, Black Sea, and Southern California Bight