- Applied Ocean Science and Engineering
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- A Virtual Ocean framework for environmentally adaptive, embedded acoustic navigation on autonomous underwater
- A Planned Approach to High Collision Risk Area
- Stochastic Acoustic Ray Tracing with Dynamically Orhttps://mit.whoi.edu/academics/fields/aope/aope-recent-dissertations-and-theses/stochastic-acoustic-ray-tracing-with-dynamically-orthogonal-equations/thogonal Equations
- Enabling Human-Robot Cooperation in Scientific Exploration of Bandwidth-Limited Environments
- Multi-path Penalty Metric in Underwater Acoustic Communication for Autonomy and Human Decision-making
- Environmental Effects of the Beaufort Lens on Underwater Acoustic Communications during Arctic Operations
- Ambient Acoustics as Indicator of Environmental Change in the Beaufort Sea: Experiments & Methods for Analysis
- Human-Autonomy Teaming for Improved Diver Navigation
- The Effect of Attenuation from Fish on Long-Range Active and Passive Acoustic Sensing in the Ocean
- Barrier Island Groundwater Dynamics
- Field-Portable Dissolved Gas Sensing and Perspectives in Aqueous Microplastic Detection
- Signal Absorption-Based Range Estimator for Undersea Swarms
- Advances in Passive Acoustic Detection, Localization, and Tracking Applied to Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
- Query-Driven Adaptive Sampling
- Developing the Next Generation of Autonomous Underwater Gliders
- High Frequency Acoustic Propagation and Modeling in Stratified Estuaries
- Mechanisms of Tidal Dispersion in a Salt Marsh Estuary
- Oceanic Ambient Noise in the Arctic on the Chukchi Shelf: Broadband Characteristics and Environmental Drivers
- Balancing Exploration and Exploitation: Task-Targeted Exploration for Scientific Decision-Making
- A Practical Search with Voronoi Distributed Autonomous Marine Swarms
- In-situ Characterization of Sea State with Improved Navigation on an Autonomous Underwater Glider
- Underwater & Out of Sight: Towards Ubiquity in Underwater Robotics
- Dense, Sonar-Based Reconstruction of Underwater Scenes
- Coordinated Tracking and Interception of an Acoustic Target Using Autonomous Surface Vehicles
- Morphological Approaches To Understanding Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness
- Robust Non-Gaussian Semantic Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
- Development and Deployment of a Novel Deep-Sea in situ Bubble Sampling Instrument for Understanding the Fate of Methane in the Water Column
- Adaptive Sampling of Transient Environmental Phenomena with Autonomous Mobile Platforms
- Computational Approaches for Sub-Meter Ocean Color Remote Sensing
- Modifiable Stability and Maneuverability of High Speed Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) Through Bioinspired Control Fins
- A Method for On-line Water Current Velocity Estimation Using Low-cost Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
- Advancing the theory and applications of Lagrangian Coherent Structures methods for oceanic surface flows
- Automated Open Circuit Scuba Diver Detection with Low Cost Passive Sonar and Machine Learning
- Observing Microbial Processes at the Microscale with In Situ Technology
- Perception-Driven Optimal Motion Planning Under Resource Constraints
- Statistical Models and Decision Making for Robotic Scientific Information Gathering
- Demonstration of Passive Acoustic Detection and Tracking of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
- Measurements and Dynamics of Multiple Scale Bedforms in Tidally Energetic Environments
- MEMS IMU Navigation with Model Based Dead-Reckoning and One-Way-Travel-Time Acoustic Range Measurements for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
- Field Observations and Numerical Model Simulations of a Migrating Inlet System
- Multi-Modal and Inertial Sensor Solution to Navigation-Type Factor Graphs
- Low Frequency Active Sonar Performance in the Arctic Beaufort Lens
- Wave-, Wind-, and Tide-Driven Circulation at a Coastal Ocean Inlet
- Extraction of Uranium from Seawater: Design and Testing of a Symbiotic System
- Graphical Model Driven Methods in Adaptive System Identification
- Distributed Autonomy and Formation Control of a Drifting Swarm of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
- Navigation and Manipulation for Autonomous Underwater Dismantling of Offshore Structures
- Hydrodynamics of a Multiple Tidal Inlet System: Katama Bay, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
- Real Time Bottom Reverberation Simulation in Deep and Shallow Ocean Environments
- Physical Control of the Distributions of a Key Arctic Copepod in the Northeast Chukchi Sea
- Characterization of Underwater Target Geometry from Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Sampling of Bistatic Acoustic Scattered Fields
- Quantification of the Spatial and Temporal Evolution of Stratified Shear Instabilities at High Reynolds Number Using Quantitative Acoustic Scattering Techniques
- Scattering of the Low-Mode Internal Tide at the Line Islands Ridge
- Controller Design for Underwater Vehicle Systems with Communication Constraints
- Autonomous & Adaptive Oceanographic Feature Tracking On Board Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
- Passive Wake Detection Using Seal Whisker-Inspired Sensing
- The Development and Application of Random Matrix Theory in Adaptive Signal Processing in the Sample Deficient Regime
- Evaluation of Vector Sensors for Adaptive Equalization in Underwater Acoustic Communication
- Coastal Ocean Variability off the Coast of Taiwan in Response to Typhoon Morakot: River Forcing, Atmospheric Forcing, and Cold Dome Dynamics
- A Computational Approach to the Quantification of Animal Camouflage
- Toward Autonomous Underwater Mapping in Partially Structured 3D Environments
- Interannual Variability of the Pacific Water Boundary Current in the Beaufort Sea
- Computational Strategies for Understanding Underwater Optical Image Datasets
- Toward Lifelong Visual Localization and Mapping
- Advances in Integrating Autonomy with Acoustic Communications for Intelligent Networks of Marine Robots
- Broadband and Statistical Characterization of Echoes from Random Scatterers: Application to Acoustic Scattering by Marine Organisms
- Uncertainty Quantification in Ocean State Estimation
- Measuring Surface Ocean Wave Height and Directional Spectra Using an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler from an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
- Robust Acoustic Signal Detection and Synchronization in a Time Varying Ocean Environment
- Non-Rayleigh Scattering by a Randomly Oriented Elongated Scatterer
- Stratification on the Skagit Bay Tidal Flats
- Direct-Form Adaptive Equalization for Underwater Acoustic Communication
- Rapid Extraction of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon from Seawater and Groundwater Samples for Radiocarbon Dating
- Progressively Communicating Rich Telemetry from Autonomous Underwater Vehicles via Relays
- Contributions to Automated Realtime Underwater Navigation
- Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Navigation and Mapping in Dynamic, Unstructured Environments
- Multiple-Vehicle Resource-Constrained Navigation in the Deep Ocean
- Field Measurements of a Swell Band, Shore Normal, Flux Divergence Reversal
- Field Deployable Dynamic Lighting System for Turbid Water Imaging
- Three-Dimensional Acoustic Propagation Through Shallow Water Internal, Surface Gravity and Bottom Sediment Waves
- Computational Imaging and Automated Identification for Aqueous Environments
- K-distribution Fading Models for Bayesian Estimation of an Underwater Acoustic Channel
- Performance Analysis for Lateral-Line-Inspired Sensor Arrays
- Understanding and Utilizing Waveguide Invariant Range-Frequency Striations in Ocean Acoustic Waveguides
- Analysis of and Techniques for Adaptive Equalization for Underwater Acoustic Communication
- Modeling Wind Forcing in Phase Resolving Simulation of Nonlinear Wind Waves
- A Study of Ocean Wave Statistical Properties Using Nonlinear, Directional, Phase-Resolved Ocean Wave-Field Simulations
- Environmental Analysis and Prediction of Transmission Loss in the Region of the New England Shelfbreak
- Physically Constrained Maximum Likelihood (PCML) Mode Filtering and Its Application as a Pre-Processing Method for Underwater Acoustic Communication
- Internal Tide Generation by Tall Ocean Ridges
- Modeling and Frequency Tracking of Marine Mammal Whistle Calls
- Detection, Classification and Localization of Underwater Mines Using a Virtual Time Reversal Mirror
- Variable Buoyancy System Metric
- Sound Propagation around Underwater Seamounts
- CFD Study of Hydrodynamic Signal Perception by Fish Using the Lateral Line System
- Cooperative Navigation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
- Forward Sound Propagation around Seamounts: Application of Acoustic Models to the Kermit-Roosevelt and Elvis Seamounts
- A Parallel Hypothesis Method of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Navigation
- Biological Oceanography
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- Assessing anthropogenic noise impacts and relevant soundscape cues for marine invertebrates: leveraging squid and coral reefs as model systems
- Characterizing Cobalamin Cycling by Antarctic Marine Microbes across Multiple Scales
- Environmental drivers of the abundance and distribution of forage fishes on the Northeast US shelf, with a particular emphasis on northern sand lance
- Distribution, Growth, and Transport of Larval Fishes and Implications for Population Dynamics
- The Role of Zooplankton in Regulating Carbon Export and Phytoplankton Community Structure: Integrating Models and Observations
- Variations in Marine Microbiomes: From Habitat to Host
- Trojan Horses in the Marine Realm: Characterizing Protistan Parasite Ecology in Coastal Waters
- Physiological and Behavioral Responses, and their Variability, in Squid, Doryteuthis Pealeii, Embryos and Paralarvae Reared Under Chronic Ocean Acidification
- Impacts of developmental exposures to the harmful algal bloom toxin, domoic acid, on neural development and behavior
- Characterizing Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance, Prevalence, and Persistence in the Marine Environment
- Genetic Connectivity, Adaptation, and Phenotypic Plasticity of Corals and Anemones Under Thermal Stress
- Movements and Oceanographic Associations of Large Pelagic Fishes in the North Atlantic Ocean
- Evolutionary Conservation and Characterization of The Metazoan Amino Acid Response
- Trait-Based Modeling of Larval Dispersal in the Gulf Of Maine
- Alexandrium catanella Cyst Dynamics in a Coastal Embayment: Temperature Dependence of Dormancy, Germination, and Bloom Initiation
- Ciliate Micrograzer Dynamics of the New England Shelf
- Pteropod Shell Condition, Locomotion, and Long-term Population Trends in the Context of Ocean Acidification and Environmental Change
- Effects of Added Drag on Cetaceans: Fishing Gear Entanglement and External Tag Attachment
- Coral Reef Soundscapes: Spatiotemporal Variability and Links to Species Assemblages
- Spatiotemporal Population Genomics of Marine Species: Invasion, Expansion, and Connectivity
- Microbial Cycling of Marine High Molecular Weight Dissolved Organic Matter
- Behavioral Responses of Invertebrate Larvae to Water Column Cues
- Defining the Ecological and Physiological Traits of Phytoplankton Across Marine Ecosystems
- The Choreography of Belonging: Toothed Whale Spatial Cohesion and Acoustic Communication
- Evolutionary Demography of Structured Two-Sex Populations and Sex Ratios
- Evolutionary and Ecological Genomics in Deep-Sea Ogranisms
- Interactions Between Calanoid Copepod Hosts and Their Associated Microbiota
- Population Dynamics and Diversity of Synechococcus on the New England Shelf
- Demographics of Lytic Viral Infection in Coastal Ocean Vibrio
- Microbial Production and Consumption of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter
- An Investigation of the Roles of Geomagnetic and Acoustic Cues in Whale Navigation and Orientation
- Growth and Development of Larval Bay Scallops (Argopecten irradians) in Response to Early Exposure to High CO2
- The auditory system of the minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata): A Potential Fatty Sound Reception Pathway in a Mysticete Cetacean
- Sands and Environmental Conditions Impact the Abundance and Persistence of the Fecal Indicator Bacteria Enterococcus at Recreational Beaches
- Species-Specific Patterns in Bivalve Larval Supply to a Coastal Embayment
- Modeling the Processes Affecting Larval Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) Survival on Georges Bank
- Functional Connectivity of Coral Reef Fishes in a Tropical Seascape Assessed by Compound-Specific Stable Isotope Analyses
- N2 Fixation by Subsurface Populations of Trichodesmium: An Important Source of New Nitrogen to the North Atlantic Ocean
- Age, Movements, and Feeding Ecology of Northwest Atlantic White Sharks Estimated From Ecogeochemical Profiles in Vertebrae
- Larval Ecology and Synchronous Reproduction of Two Crustacean Species: Semibalanus balanoides in New England, USA and Gecarcinus quadratus in Veraguas, Panama
- Reproductive Traits of Pioneer Gastropod Species Colonizing Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents After an Eruption
- Molecular Insights into the Niche of Harmful Brown Tides
- Life Cycle Studies of the Red Tide Dinoflagellate Species Complex Alexandrium tamarense
- On the Economic Optimality of Marine Reserves When Fishing Damages Habitat
- Biology and Potential Biogeochemical Impacts of Novel Predatory Flavobacteria
- Form, Function and Flow in the Plankton: Jet Propulsion and Filtration by Pelagic Tunicates
- Phosphorus Physiology of the Marine Cyanobacterium Trichodesmium
- Ecology and Population Structure of Vibrionaceae in the Coastal Ocean
- Iron Limitation and the Role of Siderophores in Marine Synechococcus
- Diversity of the Marine Cyanobacterium Trichodesmium: Characterization of the Woods Hole Culture Collection and Quantification of Field Populations
- Iron and Prochlorococcus
- Biotic and Abiotic Interactions of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent-endemic Fish on the East Pacific Rise
- Chemical Oceanography
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- High resolution, in-situ studies of seawater carbonate chemistry and carbon cycling in coastal systems using CHANnelized Optical System II
- Barium isotope cycling in the marine environment: Pathways of fractionation and implications for paleoceanographic applications
- Assessing the potential for zinc limitation of marine primary production: proteomic characterization of the low zinc stress response in marine diatoms
- Molecular Characterization of Organically Bound Copper in the Marine Environment
- Radium Isotopes and Radon-222 as Tracers of Sediment-Water Interaction in Arctic coastal and Lacustrine Environments
- Investigating chromium cycling in global oxygen deficient zones with chromium isotopes
- Anthropogenic and natural radioisotopes as tracers for contaminant sources and particulate fluxes
- Phosphonate Biogeochemical Cycling in the Marine Environment: from an Ocean Scale to a Molecular Scale
- New Insights into the Marine Oxygen Cycle from Manganese Oxide Minerals and Reactive Oxygen Species
- Protein regulation in Trichodesmium and other marine bacteria: Observational and interpretive biomarkers of biogeochemical processes
- Constraining Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbances in the Delivery of Coastal Ecosystem Services
- A Metabolic Lens on Phytoplankton Physiology
- Exploring the Role of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) in Marine Ecosystem Health and Function
- The Fate of Anthropogenic Nitrogen in a Redox Stratified Pond: An Isotopic Approach
- Tropical Stony Corals Host Diverse Microbial Nitrogen Dynamics
- A modeling study of the marine biogeochemistry, plankton dynamics, and carbon cycle on the continental shelf off the West Antarctic Peninsula
- Computational Analysis of the Biophysical Controls on Southern Ocean Phytoplankton Ecosystem Dynamics
- The Mineralogy and Chemistry of Modern Shallow-Water and Deep-Sea Corals
- The Production and Fate of Nitrogen Species in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Environments
- Scavenging and Transport of Thorium Radioisotopes in the North Atlantic Ocean
- Radium Isotopes as Tracers of Boundary Inputs of Nutrients and Trace Elements to the Coastal and Open Ocean
- Biogeochemical and Phylogenetic Signals of Proterozoic and Phanerozoic Microbial Metabolisms
- The Marine Biogeochemistry of Chromium Isotopes
- Carbon Transformations in Seafloor Serpentinization Systems
- An Investigation of Basin-Scale Controls on Upper Ocean Export and Remineralization
- The Geochemistry of Methane Isotopologues
- The Remineralization of Marine Organic Matter by Diverse Biological and Abiotic Processes
- Geochemical Controls on the Distribution And Composition of Biogenic and Sedimentary Carbon
- The Cobalt Cycle in the Tropical Pacific Ocean
- Understanding Terrestrial Organic Carbon Export: A Time-Series Approach
- Novel Analytical Strategies for Tracing the Organic Carbon Cycle in Marine and Riverine Particles
- Insight into Chemical, Biological, and Physical Processes in Coastal Waters from Dissolved Oxygen and Inert Gas Tracers
- Linking Microbial Metabolism and Organic Matter Cycling Through Metabolite Distributions in the Ocean
- Ecosystem Metabolism in Salt Marsh Tidal Creeks and Ponds: Applying Triple Oxygen Isotopes and Other Gas Tracers to Novel Environments
- The Biogeochemistry of Lipid Derived Infochemical Signals in the Ocean
- Molecular Determination of Marine Iron Ligands by Mass Spectrometry
- Late Quaternary Climate Variability and Terrestrial Carbon Cycling in Tropical South America
- Seasonal and Interannual Variability in the Hydrology and Geochemistry of an Outlet Glacier of the Greenland Ice Sheet
- Using Passive Samplers to Assess Bioavailability, Toxicity, and Reactivity of Hydrophobic Organic Chemicals (HOCS)
- A Magmatic Trigger for the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum?
- Geochemistry of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Fluids from the Mid-Cayman Rise, Caribbean Sea
- Testing the Ancient Marine Redox Record From Oxygenic Photosynthesis to Photic Zone Euxina
- Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Biogeochemical Processes in the Fraser River, Canada: A Coupled Organic-Inorganic Perspective
- Heterogeneous Reservoirs in the Marine Carbon Cycle
- Temporal Variability in Chemical Cycling of the Subterranean Estuary and Associated Chemical Loading to the Coastal Ocean
- Transformations of Mercury in the Marine Water Column
- The Biogeochemistry of Marine Particulate Trace Metals
- Natural and Synthetic Estrogens in Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluent and the Coastal Ocean
- The Marine Biogeochemistry of Dissolved and Colloidal Iron
- Variations in Coral Reef Net Community Calcification and Aragonite Saturation State on Local and Global Scales
- Urea and Nickel Utilization in Marine Cyanobacteria as Evaluated by Incubation, Proteomic, and Uptake Techniques
- Evolution of Anthropogenic Pb and Pb isotopes in the Deep North Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean
- Marine Microbial Intact Polar Diacylglyceroplipids and their Application in the Study of Nutrient Stress and Bacterial Production
- Distribution of Thiols in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean
- Advances in Measurements of Particle Cycling and Fluxes in the Ocean
- Nitrogen Cycling in Oxygen Deficient Zones : Insights from δ15N and δ18O of Nitrite and Nitrate
- Influences on the Oceanic Biogeochemical Cycling of the Hybrid-Type Metals: Cobalt, Iron, and Mangaese
- Comprehensive Study of a Heavy Fuel Oil Spill: Modeling and Analytical Approaches to Understanding Environmental Weathering
- Insights Into Vitamin B12 Production, Use, and Acquisition by Marine Microbes
- Marine Particle Dynamics: Sinking Velocities, Size Distributions, Fluxes, and Microbial Degradation Rates
- Lipid Biomarkers of Coral Stress: Calibration and Exploration
- The Biogeochemistry of Marine Nitrous Oxide
- Interactions of Cadmium, Zinc, and Phosphorus in Marine Synechococcus: Field Uptake, Physiological and Proteomic Studies
- Molecular Biogeochemistry of Modern and Ancient Marine Microbes
- Exploring the Distribution and Physiological Roles of Bacterial Membrane Lipids in the Marine Environment
- Geomicrobiology of Nitrogen in a Coastal Aquifer: Isotopic and Molecular Methods to Examine Nitrification and Denitrification in Groundwater
- Laboratory and Field-Based Investigations of Subsurface Geochemical Processes in Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems
- Microbial Interactions Associated with Biofilms Attached to Trichodesmium spp. and Detrial Particles in the Ocean
- Understanding the Ocean Carbon and Sulfur Cycles in the Context of a Variable Ocean: A Study of Anthropogenic Carbon Storage and Dimethysulfide Production in the Atlantic Ocean
- Surface-Cycling of Rhenium and Its Isotopes
- Geochemical Tracers of Processes Affecting the Formation of Seafloor Hydrothermal Fluids and Deposits in the Manus Back-Arc Basin
- Carbon Nanotube Synthesis and Detection: Limiting the Environmental Impact of Novel Technologies
- Halogenated1′-methyl-1,2′-bipyrroles (MBPs) in the Northwestern Atlantic
- Marine Geology and Geophysics
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- Questions and Clarity: Insights from Applying Computational Methods to Paleoclimate Archives
- Coral Reefs in the Anthropocene Ocean: Novel Insights from Skeletal Proxies of Climate Change, Impacts, and Resilience
- Inferring the Thermomechanical State of the Lithosphere Using Geophysical and Geochemical Observables
- Structure and Mechanics of the Subducted Gorda Plate: Constrained by Afterslip Simulations and Scattered Seismic Waves
- The Heterogeneity and Volatile Content of Earth’s Mantle, Magmas and Crust
- Insights from Geodynamic Models Into Ice Flow, Mantle Magmatism, and Their Interactions
- Coastal Evolution on Earth and Titan
- U-Th Dating of Lacustrine Carbonates
- High Resolution Sedimentary Archives of Past Millennium Hurricane Activity in the Bahama Archipelago
- Reconstructing Atmospheric Changes in Monsoon Regions Using Eolian Dust
- Seismic and Numerical Constraints on the Formation and Evolution of Oceanic Lithosphere
- Greenlandic Ice Archives of North Atlantic Common Era Climate
- Investigating Mexican Paleoclimate with Precisely Dated Speleothems
- Wave-Driven Geomorphology of Pacific Carbonate Coastlines: From landscape to Wavelength Scale
- An inverse modeling approach to investigate deep ocean ventilation from radiocarbon records
- Geophysical and Geochemical Contraints on Submarine Volcanic Processes
- Storm Signatures in Coastal Ponds and Marshes Over the Late Holocene
- Water and Volatile Element Accretion to the Inner Planets
- Influence of Meltwater on Greenland Ice Sheet Dynamics
- Geophysical and Petrological Constraints on Ocean Plate Dynamics
- Trace Element Proxies and Mineral Indicators of Hydrothermal Fluid Composition and Seafloor Massive Sulfide Deposit Formation Processes
- Reconstructing Deglacial Ocean Ventilation Using Radiocarbon: Data and Inverse Modeling
- Geophysical and Geochemical Constraints on the Evolution of Oceanic Lithosphere From Formation to Subduction
- Coral Biomineralization, Climate Proxies and the Sensitivity of Coral Reefs to CO2-Driven Climate Change
- A Scientific Framework for Evaluating Coral Reef Resilience to Climate Change
- Little Ice Age Climate in the Western Tropical Atlantic Inferred from Coral Geochemical Proxies
- Seismic Constraints on the Processes and Consequences of Secondary Igneous Evolution of Pacific Oceanic Lithosphere
- Plan-View Evolution of Wave-Dominated Deltas
- Chemical, Isotopic, and Temporal Variations during Crustal Differentiation: Insights from the Dariv Igneous Complex, Western Mongolia
- Investigating the Evolution and Formation of Coastlines and the Response to Sea-Level Rise
- Mechanical and Geological Controls on the Long-Term Evolution of Normal Faults
- Exploring the Climate Change Refugia Potential of Equatorial Pacific Coral Reefs
- Lithospheric Dynamics of Earth’s Subduction Zones and Martian Tectonic Provinces
- Quaternary Morphology and Paleoenvironmental Records of Carbonate Islands
- Amundsen Sea Sea-Ice Variability, Atmospheric Circulation, and Spatial Variations in Snow Isotopic Composition from New West Antarctic Firn Cores
- Evolution of Oceanic Margins: Rifting in the Gulf of California and Sediment Diapirism and Mantle Hydration During Subduction
- Deep Explosive Volcanism on the Gakkel Ridge and Seismological Constraints on Ahallow Recharge at TAG Active Mound
- Climate Controls on Coral Growth in the Caribbean
- The CAFE Experiment: A Joint Seismic and MT Investigation of the Cascadia Subduction System
- Investigation of the Effect of a Circular Patch of Vegetation on Turbulence Generation and Sediment Deposition Using Four Case Studies
- Advanced Geophysical Studies of Accretion of Oceanic Lithosphere in Mid-Ocean Ridges Characterized by Contrasting Tectono-Magmatic Settings
- Earthquake Behavior and Structure of Oceanic Transform Faults
- Aridification of the Indian Subcontinent During the Holocene: Implications for Landscape Evolution, Sedimentation, Carbon Cycle and Human Civilizations
- Determining Timescales of Natural Carbonation of Peridotite in the Samail Ophiolite, Sultanate of Oman
- The Centennial and Millennial Variability of the IndoPacific Warm Pool and the Indonesian Throughflow
- Constraining Circulation Changes Through the Last Deglaciation with Deep-sea Coral Radiocarbon and Sedimentary 231Pa/230Th
- Hydrological and Biogeochemical Cycling Along the Greenland Ice Sheet Margin
- Quantifying Overwash Flux in Barrier Systems: An Example from Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA
- The Response of the Red Sea to a Strong Wind Jet Near the Tokar Gap in Summer
- Late Holocene Hurricane Activity and Climate Variability in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico
- Experimental Studies of Melting and Crystallization Processes in Planetary Interiors
- Syn-eruptive Degassing of a Single Submarine Lava Flow: Constraints on MORB CO2 Variability, Vesiculation, and Eruption Dynamics
- Temporal and Petrogenetic Constraints on Volcanic Accretionary Processes at 9-10 Degrees North East Pacific Rise
- Controls on Earthquake Rupture and Triggering Mechanisms in Subduction Zones
- Coral Calcifications Insights from Inorganic Experiments and Coral Responses to Environmental Variables
- Basalt Petrogenesis Beneath Slow and Ultraslow-Spreading Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridges
- Uranium-Series Radionuclide Records of Paleoceanographic and Sedimentary Changes in the Arctic Ocean
- Tropical Cyclones Within the Sedimentary Record: Analyzing Overwash Deposition from Event to Millenial Timescales
- Low-Latitude Western North Atlantic Climate Variability During the Past Millennium: Insights from Proxies and Models
- Physical Oceanography
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- Development and Testing of the AXBT Realtime Editing System (ARES)
- Control of the abyssal ocean overturning circulation by mixing-driven bottom boundary layers
- An Analysis of Atlantic Water in the Arctic Ocean Using the Arctic Subpolar Gyre State Estimate and Observations
- Characterizing the Impact of Underwater Glider Observations on the Navy Coastal Ocean Model (NCOM) in the Gulf Stream Region
- Estimating Atmospheric Boundary Layer Turbulence in the Marine Environment Using Lidar Systems with Applications for Offshore Wind Energy
- Pseudo-nitzschia in the Gulf of Maine: investigating bloom dynamics, species introduction, and climate change implications with observations and models
- Finescale Abyssal Turbulence: Sources and Modeling
- Diagnosing the variability in temperature and velocity in the Middle Atlantic Bight
- Vertical Fluxes in the Upper Ocean
- Dynamics and Kinematics of an Estuarine Network
- Equatorial Ocean Dynamics Impacting Upwelling West of the Galápagos Archipelago
- Oceanic Response Observations due to Passing Tropical Cyclones: An Assessment of Drag and Sea Spray Parameterizations
- Residual Overturning Circulation and Its Connection to Southern Ocean Dynamics
- An Analysis of Atlantic Water in the Arctic Ocean Using the Arctic Subpolar Gyre State Estimate and Observations
- Structure, variability, and dynamics of the West Greenland Boundary Current System
- Stratified and Stirred: Monsoon Freshwater in the Bay of Bengal
- Lagrangian Dispersion and Deformation in Submesoscale Flows
- The Response of Ocean Salinity Patterns to Climate Change: Implications for Circulation
- The Influence of Heat Transport on Arctic Amplification
- Distributional Models of Ocean Carbon Export
- Chaotic Advection, Mixing, and Property Exchange in Three-Dimensional Ocean Eddies and Gyres
- Age of Air and the Circulation of the Stratosphere
- Internal Hydraulic Jumps with Upstream Shear
- Dynamics of North Atlantic Western Boundary Currents
- Physics of Diurnal Warm Layers: Turbulence, Internal Waves, and Lateral Mixing
- Inferring Ocean Circulation During the Last Glacial Maximum and Last Deglaciation Using Data and Models
- Mechanisms for Enhanced Turbulence in the Drake Passage Region of the Southern Ocean
- Dynamics of Greenland’s Glacial Fjords
- Vortices in Sinusoidal Shear, with Applications to Jupiter
- Hydrodynamic and Morphodynamic Responses to Surfzone Seafloor Perturbations
- Submesoscale Turbulence in the Upper Ocean
- Hydrographic Structure of Overflow Water Passing Through the Denmark Strait
- Strong Wind Events Across Greenland’s Coast and their Influences on the Ice Sheet, Sea Ice, and Ocean
- Buoyancy-Driven Circulation in the Red Sea
- Investigating the Role of Trichodesmium spp. in the Oceanic Nitrogen Cycle Through Observations and Models
- An Inverse Approach to Understanding Deglacial Benthic Oxygen Isotope Records from the Last Glaciation
- Physical Controls on Copepod Aggregations in the Gulf of Maine
- Physical Influences on Phytoplankton Ecology: Models and Observations
- A Multi-Dimensional Spectral Description of Ocean Variability with Applications
- Moored Observations of Shelfbreak Processes at the Inflow to and Outflow from the Arctic Ocean
- The Production of Temperature and Salinity Variance and Covariance: Implications for Mixing
- Energy Pathways and Structures of Oceanic Eddies in the ECCO2 State Estimate and Simplified Models
- Atlantic Ocean circulation at the Last Glacial Maximum: Inferences from data and models
- The Effects of Ocean Eddies on Tropical Cyclones
- Ice Shelf-Ocean Interactions in a General Circulation Model: Melt-Rate Modulation Due to Mean Flow and Tidal Currents
- The Effect of Stratification on Wind-Driven, Cross-Shelf Circulation and Transport on the Inner Continental Shelf
- Comparison of Wind Stress Algorithims, Datasets and Oceanic Power Input
- Instabilities of an Eastern Boundary Current with and without Large-scale Flow Influence
- Variability in the North Atlantic Deep Western Boundary Current: Upstream Causes and Downstream Effects as Observed at Line W
- Abyssal Mixing from Bottom Boundary Effects in Mid-Atlantic Ridge Flank Canyons
- Near-Inertial and Thermal Upper Ocean Response to Atmospheric Forcing in the North Atlantic Ocean
- The Seasonal and Interannual Variability of the West Greenland Current System in the Labrador Sea
- Linear and Nonlinear Stratified Spindown over Sloping Topography
- Circulation and Convection in the Irminger Sea
- Radiation and Dissipation of Internal Waves Generated by Geostrophic Motions Impinging on Small-Scale Topography
- Slope/Shelf Circulation and Cross-Slope/Shelf Transport Out of a Bay Driven by Eddies from the Open Ocean
- Eddy-Mean Flow Interactions in Western Boundary Current Jets
- Spatial and Temporal Variability of Tide-Induced Salt Flux in a Partially Mixed Estuary
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- Recent Dissertations and Theses
- A modeling study of the marine biogeochemistry, plankton dynamics, and carbon cycle on the continental shelf off the West Antarctic Peninsula
- Lagrangian Dispersion and Deformation in Submesoscale Flows
- Geophysical and Geochemical Contraints on Submarine Volcanic Processes
- Advancing the theory and applications of Lagrangian Coherent Structures methods for oceanic surface flows
- The production and fate of nitrogen species in deep-sea hydrothermal environments
- The mineralogy and chemistry of modern shallow-water and deep-sea corals
- Characterizing Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance, Prevalence, and Persistence in the Marine Environment
- Computational Analysis of the Biophysical Controls on Southern Ocean Phytoplankton Ecosystem Dynamics
- Genetic Connectivity, Adaptation, and Phenotypic Plasticity of Corals and Anemones Under Thermal Stress
- Distributional Models of Ocean Carbon Export
- Genetic Connectivity, Adaptation, and Phenotypic Plasticity of Corals and Anemones Under Thermal Stress
- Carbon Transformations in Seafloor Serpentinization Systems
- Influence of Meltwater on Greenland Ice Sheet Dynamics
- Geophysical and Petrological Constraints on Ocean Plate Dynamics
- Coral Biomineralization, Climate Proxies and the Sensitivity of Coral Reefs to CO2-Driven Climate Change
- Insight into Chemical, Biological, and Physical Processes in Coastal Waters from Dissolved Oxygen and Inert Gas Tracers
- Ecosystem Metabolism in Salt Marsh Tidal Creeks and Ponds: Applying Triple Oxygen Isotopes and Other Gas Tracers to Novel Environments
- Field Observations and Numerical Model Simulations of a Migrating Inlet Syste
- Pteropod Shell Condition, Locomotion, and Long-term Population Trends in the Context of Ocean Acidification and Environmental Change
- Coral Reef Soundscapes: Spatiotemporal Variability and Links to Species Assemblages
- A Scientific Framework for Evaluating Coral Reef Resilience to Climate Change
- Little Ice Age Climate in the Western Tropical Atlantic Inferred from Coral Geochemical Proxies
- Inferring Ocean Circulation During the Last Glacial Maximum and Last Deglaciation Using Data and Models
- Late Quaternary Climate Variability and Terrestrial Carbon Cycling in Tropical South America
- Growth and Development of Larval Bay Scallops (Argopecten irradians) in Response to Early Exposure to High CO2
- Seasonal and Interannual Variability in the Hydrology and Geochemistry of an Outlet Glacier of the Greenland Ice Sheet
- Hydrological and Biogeochemical Cycling Along the Greenland Ice Sheet Margin
- Geochemistry of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Fluids from the Mid-Cayman Rise, Caribbean Sea
- Boundary Layer Dynamics and Deep Ocean Mixing in Mid-Atlantic Ridge Canyons
- Physical Control of the Distributions of a Key Arctic Copepod in the Northeast Chukchi Sea
- Investigating the Evolution and Formation of Coastlines and the Response to Sea-Level Rise
- Mechanical and Geological Controls on the Long-Term Evolution of Normal Faults
- Exploring the Climate Change Refugia Potential of Equatorial Pacific Coral Reefs
- Investigating the Role of Trichodesmium spp. in the Oceanic Nitrogen Cycle Through Observations and Models
- Lithospheric Dynamics of Earth’s Subduction Zones and Martian Tectonic Provinces
- Quaternary Morphology and Paleoenvironmental Records of Carbonate Islands
- Amundsen Sea Sea-Ice Variability, Atmospheric Circulation, and Spatial Variations in Snow Isotopic Composition from New West Antarctic Firn Cores
- Strong Wind Events Across Greenland’s Coast and their Influences on the Ice Sheet, Sea Ice, and Ocean
- Recent Dissertations and Theses
- Climate Variability and Impacts
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- Recent Dissertations and Theses
- Storm Signatures in Coastal Ponds and Marshes Over the Late Holocene
- The Response of Ocean Salinity Patterns to Climate Change: Implications for Circulation
- A modeling study of the marine biogeochemistry, plankton dynamics, and carbon cycle on the continental shelf off the West Antarctic Peninsula
- Genetic Connectivity, Adaptation, and Phenotypic Plasticity of Corals and Anemones Under Thermal Stress
- The Influence of Heat Transport on Arctic Amplification
- Coral Reef Soundscapes: Spatiotemporal Variability and Links to Species Assemblages
- Pteropod Shell Condition, Locomotion, and Long-term Population Trends in the Context of Ocean Acidification and Environmental Change
- Ecosystem Metabolism in Salt Marsh Tidal Creeks and Ponds: Applying Triple Oxygen Isotopes and Other Gas Tracers to Novel Environments
- Coral Biomineralization, Climate Proxies and the Sensitivity of Coral Reefs to CO2-Driven Climate Change
- Influence of Meltwater on Greenland Ice Sheet Dynamics
- Seasonal and Interannual Variability in the Hydrology and Geochemistry of an Outlet Glacier of the Greenland Ice Sheet
- Late Quaternary Climate Variability and Terrestrial Carbon Cycling in Tropical South America
- Inferring Ocean Circulation During the Last Glacial Maximum and Last Deglaciation Using Data and Models
- Little Ice Age Climate in the Western Tropical Atlantic Inferred from Coral Geochemical Proxies
- A Scientific Framework for Evaluating Coral Reef Resilience to Climate Change
- Exploring the Climate Change Refugia Potential of Equatorial Pacific Coral Reefs
- Investigating the Evolution and Formation of Coastlines and the Response to Sea-Level Rise
- Physical Control of the Distributions of a Key Arctic Copepod in the Northeast Chukchi Sea
- An Inverse Approach to Understanding Deglacial Benthic Oxygen Isotope Records from the Last Glaciation
- Quaternary Morphology and Paleoenvironmental Records of Carbonate Islands
- Amundsen Sea Sea-Ice Variability, Atmospheric Circulation, and Spatial Variations in Snow Isotopic Composition from New West Antarctic Firn Cores
- An Inverse Approach to Understanding Deglacial Benthic Oxygen Isotope Records from the Last Glaciation
- Climate Controls on Coral Growth in the Caribbean
- Variations in Coral Reef Net Community Calcification and Aragonite Saturation State on Local and Global Scales
- Aridification of the Indian Subcontinent During the Holocene: Implications for Landscape Evolution, Sedimentation, Carbon Cycle and Human Civilizations
- The Centennial and Millennial Variability of the IndoPacific Warm Pool and the Indonesian Throughflow
- Constraining Circulation Changes Through the Last Deglaciation with Deep-sea Coral Radiocarbon and Sedimentary 231Pa/230Th
- Lipid Biomarkers of Coral Stress: Calibration and Exploration
- Late Holocene Hurricane Activity and Climate Variability in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico
- Understanding the Ocean Carbon and Sulfur Cycles in the Context of a Variable Ocean: A Study of Anthropogenic Carbon Storage and Dimethysulfide Production in the Atlantic Ocean
- Near-Inertial and Thermal Upper Ocean Response to Atmospheric Forcing in the North Atlantic Ocean
- The Seasonal and Interannual Variability of the West Greenland Current System in the Labrador Sea
- Coral Calcifications Insights from Inorganic Experiments and Coral Responses to Environmental Variables
- Uranium-Series Radionuclide Records of Paleoceanographic and Sedimentary Changes in the Arctic Ocean
- Low-Latitude Western North Atlantic Climate Variability During the Past Millennium: Insights from Proxies and Models
- Tropical Cyclones Within the Sedimentary Record: Analyzing Overwash Deposition from Event to Millenial Timescales
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