Faculty

Ocean IoT (internet-of-things), communications, sensor networks, underwater imaging, acoustics, ultra-low-power electronics, computer vision, machine learning, robotics, wireless sensing, radio frequency (RF), localization, signal processing

seismo-acoustics, underwater and atmospheric acoustics, planetary acoustics, signal processing, numerical modeling

Computer vision, machine learning, camera trapping, remote sensing, bioacoustics, multimodal biodiversity monitoring, environmental monitoring, participatory human-AI systems, community science

Remote sensing, marine biology, ecology, nearshore oceanography

Marine autonomy, unmanned marine vehicles, autonomous decision-making

ocean acoustics, signal processing, passive acoustic monitoring, sonar

ocean sound propagation, acoustic tomography, acoustic remote sensing, internal waves

air-sea interaction, marine meteorology, boundary-layer turbulence

nearshore, surfzone, sediment, morphological processes

surveying marine organisms; acoustic scattering

computer vision, machine learning, marine robotics, adaptive exploration and sampling algorithms

Coastal groundwater dynamics, permafrost hydrology, saltwater intrusion, submarine groundwater discharge, coastal wetland hydrology, climate change impacts on coastal ecosystems, hydrological-biogeochemical interactions, cryohydrogeology, numerical modeling, temperate and polar field work.

Renewable energy, environmental fluid mechanics, atmospheric boundary layer, turbulence, optimization, uncertainty quantification

Small-scale biological-physical interactions in plankton; Behavioral, physical and sensory ecology of marine organisms; Plankton fluid dynamics; Bio-fluid dynamics; Environmental fluid dynamics; Applied computational fluid dynamics; Atmospheric mesoscale numerical modeling over the Red Sea

robotics, control systems, transportation and logistics

exploration, path planning, marine robotics, multi-robot systems, autonomous systems

dynamic optical materials formed from fluids and elastomers, bioinspired photonics, biological structure formation principles, light management in algae cultures, marine biological optics

acoustic scattering processes

sensor data fusion, autonomous underwater vehicles, adaptive echolocation

acoustical oceanography, underwater imaging, matched field tomography

sea ice, polar regions, ice-ocean-atmosphere interactions, polar technology

Field Robotics, Multirobot Systems, Adaptive Exploration and Sampling Algorithms

mesoscale dynamics, upper ocean processes, numerical modeling

instrumentation, sensor development, trace gas sensing, laser spectroscopy

turbulence, wave-breaking, estuaries

signal processing, geophysical signal processing, chaotic and fractal signals

estuarine physics, sediment transport, physical-biological interactions

surf and swashzone processes, wave runup, alongshore currents, morphology, hurricane impacts, groundwater-ocean-beach interactions

Bio-inspired propulsion, Numerical methods for fluids and
structures, and Shape-changing elastic structures

autonomy, planning, machine learning

Reduced order modeling of chaotic and turbulent flows, quantification of extreme events in nonlinear systems, targeted energy transfer in mechanical systems, engergy harvesting from stochastic sources

numerical modeling, seismo-acoustic propagation

coastal and estuarine circulation; turbulent mixing; sediment transport; hypoxia/anoxia

precision machine design, symbiotic systems, sargassum sequestration, ocean mining

sea ice, ice-ocean interactions, polar regions, surface waves, climate modeling, Arctic Ocean

plankton ecology, time series observations

hydrodynamics, sediment dynamics, bedform processes

fluid-structure interactions, autonomous underwater vehicles

flow-induced vibration, dynamics of offshore structures

robotics, Autonomous Benthic Explorer, deep sea observatories

vortex dynamics, wave kinematics, hydromechanics

Coastal ocean dynamics, biophysical interaction, Polar oceanography, coral reef hydrodynamics, adaptive sampling

collective behavior, bioacoustics, species distribution modelling, remote observation systems, polar research, passive acoustics monitoring, ocean acoustics

sonar, ocean acoustics, adaptive arrays

seafloor observatories, electromagnetic measurements, instrumentation

estuaries, coastal hydrodynamics, dispersion, sediment transport, morphodynamics

underwater acoustics, shallow water acoustics, arctic acoustics, acoustic tomography, high-frequency backscatter from particles

acoustic propagation modeling, signal processing, numerical optimization, communications

acoustic scattering, marine organisms, sea ice, scattering models

geophysical boundary layers, mechanics of sediment transport, shelf and nearshore processes