Faculty
Applied Ocean Science and Engineering
Fadel Adib, Associate Professor | |
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT | |
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Keywords: | 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 |
Gil Averbuch, Assistant Scientist | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | seismo-acoustics, underwater and atmospheric acoustics, planetary acoustics, signal processing, numerical modeling |
Sara Beery, Assistant Professor | |
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT | |
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Keywords: | Computer vision, machine learning, camera trapping, remote sensing, bioacoustics, multimodal biodiversity monitoring, environmental monitoring, participatory human-AI systems, community science |
Tom Bell, Assistant Scientist | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | Remote sensing, marine biology, ecology, nearshore oceanography |
Michael Benjamin, Principal Research Scientist | |
Mechanical Engineering, MIT | |
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Keywords: | Marine autonomy, unmanned marine vehicles, autonomous decision-making |
Julien Bonnel, Associate Scientist | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | ocean acoustics, signal processing, passive acoustic monitoring, sonar |
Timothy F. Duda, Senior Scientist | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | ocean sound propagation, acoustic tomography, acoustic remote sensing, internal waves |
James Edson, Senior Scientist | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | air-sea interaction, marine meteorology, boundary-layer turbulence |
Steve Elgar, Senior Scientist | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | nearshore, surfzone, sediment, morphological processes |
John Fisher, Senior Research Scientist | |
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT | |
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Kenneth G. Foote, Senior Scientist | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | surveying marine organisms; acoustic scattering |
Yogesh Girdhar, Associate Scientist | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | computer vision, machine learning, marine robotics, adaptive exploration and sampling algorithms |
Julia Guimond, Assistant Scientist | |
Civil and Environmental Engineering/Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | 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. |
Michael Howland, Assistant Professor | |
Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT | |
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Keywords: | Renewable energy, environmental fluid mechanics, atmospheric boundary layer, turbulence, optimization, uncertainty quantification |
Houshuo Jiang, Senior Scientist | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | 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 |
Sertac Karaman, Professor | |
Director, LIDS | |
Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT | |
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Keywords: | robotics, control systems, transportation and logistics |
Nare Karapetyan, Assistant Scientist | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | exploration, path planning, marine robotics, multi-robot systems, autonomous systems |
Mathias Kolle, Associate Professor | |
Mechanical Engineering, MIT | |
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Keywords: | dynamic optical materials formed from fluids and elastomers, bioinspired photonics, biological structure formation principles, light management in algae cultures, marine biological optics |
Samuel Laney, Senior Scientist | |
Biology, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | phytoplankton ecology, marine photosynthesis, ocean instrumentation |
Andone Lavery, Senior Scientist | |
Department Chair | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | acoustic scattering processes |
John J. Leonard, Professor | |
Associte Director of the Joint Program | |
Mechanical Engineering, MIT | |
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Keywords: | sensor data fusion, autonomous underwater vehicles, adaptive echolocation |
Nicholas Makris, Professor | |
Mechanical Engineering, MIT | |
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Keywords: | acoustical oceanography, underwater imaging, matched field tomography |
Ted Maksym, Associate Scientist | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | sea ice, polar regions, ice-ocean-atmosphere interactions, polar technology |
Seth McCammon, Assistant Scientist | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | Field Robotics, Multirobot Systems, Adaptive Exploration and Sampling Algorithms |
Dennis J. McGillicuddy Jr., Senior Scientist | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | mesoscale dynamics, upper ocean processes, numerical modeling |
Anna Michel, Associate Scientist | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | instrumentation, sensor development, trace gas sensing, laser spectroscopy |
Heidi M. Nepf, Professor | |
Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT | |
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Keywords: | turbulence, wave-breaking, estuaries |
Alan Oppenheim, Professor | |
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT | |
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Keywords: | signal processing, geophysical signal processing, chaotic and fractal signals |
David Ralston, Senior Scientist | |
Chair, Joint Committee for Applied Ocean Science & Engineering | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | estuarine physics, sediment transport, physical-biological interactions |
Britt Raubenheimer, Senior Scientist | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | surf and swashzone processes, wave runup, alongshore currents, morphology, hurricane impacts, groundwater-ocean-beach interactions |
Wim van Rees, Assistant Professor | |
Mechanical Engineering, MIT | |
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Keywords: | Bio-inspired propulsion, Numerical methods for fluids and |
Nicholas Roy, Professor | |
Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT | |
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Keywords: | autonomy, planning, machine learning |
Themistoklis Sapsis, Professor | |
Mechanical Engineering, MIT | |
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Keywords: | 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 |
Henrik Schmidt, Professor | |
Mechanical Engineering, MIT | |
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Keywords: | numerical modeling, seismo-acoustic propagation |
Malcolm Scully, Associate Scientist | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | coastal and estuarine circulation; turbulent mixing; sediment transport; hypoxia/anoxia |
Alexander Slocum, Professor | |
Mechanical Engineering, MIT | |
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Keywords: | precision machine design, symbiotic systems, sargassum sequestration, ocean mining |
Madison Smith, Assistant Scientist | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | sea ice, ice-ocean interactions, polar regions, surface waves, climate modeling, Arctic Ocean |
Heidi M. Sosik, Senior Scientist | |
Biology, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | plankton ecology, time series observations |
Alexandra H. Techet, Professor | |
Chair, Joint Committee for Applied Ocean Sciences and Engineering | |
Mechanical Engineering, MIT | |
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Peter A. Traykovski, Associate Scientist | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | hydrodynamics, sediment dynamics, bedform processes |
Michael Triantafyllou, Professor | |
Mechanical Engineering, MIT | |
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Keywords: | fluid-structure interactions, autonomous underwater vehicles |
J. Kim Vandiver, Professor | |
Director, Edgerton Center | |
Mechanical Engineering, MIT | |
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Keywords: | flow-induced vibration, dynamics of offshore structures |
Dana R. Yoerger, Senior Scientist | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | robotics, Autonomous Benthic Explorer, deep sea observatories |
Dick K.P. Yue, Professor | |
Mechanical Engineering, MIT | |
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Keywords: | vortex dynamics, wave kinematics, hydromechanics |
W. Gordon Zhang, Associate Scientist | |
Education Coordinator | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | Coastal ocean dynamics, biophysical interaction, Polar oceanography, coral reef hydrodynamics, adaptive sampling |
Daniel P. Zitterbart, Associate Scientist | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | collective behavior, bioacoustics, species distribution modelling, remote observation systems, polar research, passive acoustics monitoring, ocean acoustics |
Retired/Emeritus Faculty
Arthur B. Baggeroer, Professor Emeritus | |
Mechanical Engineering, MIT | |
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Keywords: | sonar, ocean acoustics, adaptive arrays |
Alan D. Chave, Scientist Emeritus | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | seafloor observatories, electromagnetic measurements, instrumentation |
W. Rockwell Geyer, Emeritus Research Scholar | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | estuaries, coastal hydrodynamics, dispersion, sediment transport, morphodynamics |
James F. Lynch, Scientist Emeritus | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | underwater acoustics, shallow water acoustics, arctic acoustics, acoustic tomography, high-frequency backscatter from particles |
James C. Preisig, Scientist Emeritus | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | acoustic propagation modeling, signal processing, numerical optimization, communications |
Timothy K. Stanton, Scientist Emeritus | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | acoustic scattering, marine organisms, sea ice, scattering models |
John H. Trowbridge, Scientist Emeritus | |
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | |
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Keywords: | geophysical boundary layers, mechanics of sediment transport, shelf and nearshore processes |