Investigators
Eric Adams
617.253.6595
Research interests: Environmental fluid mechanics, design and analysis of outfall systems, dynamics of jets and plumes, water quality modeling.
Thomas Bianchi
352.392.6138
Research interests: Organic geochemistry, biogeochemical dynamics of aquatic food chains, carbon cycling in estuarine and coastal ecosystems, and biochemical markers of colloidal and particulate organic carbon
Ping Chang
979.845.8196
Research interests: Climate variability and predictability in the tropical ocean-atmosphere coupled system
(Photo: right, Szunyogh on left)
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
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
Oliver Fringer
650.725.6878
Research Interests: Parallel coastal ocean modeling, large-eddy simulation, estuarine dynamics, sediment dynamics, internal waves and mixing
Allen Goldstein
510.643.2451
Research interests: Atmospheric chemistry, biosphere-ocean-atmosphere exchange of trace gases and aerosols, and development and application of novel instrumentation to investigate the organic chemistry of earth's atmosphere
Norman Guinasso
979.862.2323
Research interests: Physical oceanography, marine geochemistry, and sedimentology
Ruoying He
919.513.0249
Research interests: Ocean circulation dynamics, air-sea interaction, bio-physical interaction, numerical modeling and data assimilation
Robert Hetland
979.458.0096
Research interests: Regional and coastal numerical modeling, continental shelf dynamics, and estuaries and river plumes
Ben Hodges
512.471.4730
Research interests: Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, Hydrodynamics, transport and water quality issues in lakes, rivers and estuaries
Matthew Howard
979.862.4169
Research interests: Physical oceanography, coastal oceanography, integrated ocean observing systems, data management systems for oceanography, information architecture, informatics, semantic mediation, ontologies, mode-data comparisons
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
Joe Kuehl, Project Coordinator
979.862.2323 ext. 115
Research interests: Fundamental geophysical fluid dynamics including gap-leaping boundary currents, topographic control and lagrangian coherent structure mixing. Observational oceanography focused on modal decomposition of data. Boundary layer stability with focus on hypersonic boundary layers.
Jim Ledwell
508.289.3305
Research interests: Mixing and stirring in the ocean and their roles in ocean circulation and in the distribution of chemical and biological species
Stephen Masutani
808.965.7388
Gerard Nihous
Research interests: Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC), wave energy, methane hydrates, ocean carbon sequestration.
Elizabeth North
410.221.8497
Research interests: Biological-physical interactions: hydrodynamic and particle trajectory modeling, ichthyoplankton and zooplankton ecology, estuarine physical oceanography, fisheries recruitment variability
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
Thorsten Stoesser
44 29.2087.6697
Research interests: Environmental fluid mechanics, CFD, large-eddy simulation, turbulence, multiphase flow, wetland hydrodynamics, open-channel hydrodynamics.
Istvan Szunyogh
979.458.0553
Research interests: Applied mathematical and statistical techniques for improved numerical weather prediction products, Earth's atmosphere and complex physical systems, numerical models
(Photo: left, Chang on right)
Evan Variano
510.642.2648
Research interests: Environmental fluid dynamics, experimental methods, mixing and transport by turbulence, air-sea exchange and the global carbon budget, hydrodynamic effects on aquatic organisms, nonlinear dynamics and coupled systems, energy-efficient mixing and particle removal for water treatment, and inquiry education.
Terry Wade
979.862.2323
Research interests: Environmental chemistry, chemical oceanography, methods development, atmospheric deposition, project management, and marine organic geochemistry
Shari Yvon-Lewis
979.458.1816
Research interests: Global oceanic uptake andemission of climatically important trace species, air-sea gas exchange and coastal air quality/water quality, air-sea methane fluxes near ocean seeps and clathrates