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Gateways for: Prospective Students Current Students Faculty Alumni The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering is a…
Read MoreExploring the Role of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) in Marine Ecosystem Health and Function
Kalina Grabb, Ph.D., 2022 Colleen Hansel, Advisor With the rapid decline of coastal ecosystems such as coral reefs and seagrasses, it is crucial to better understand the health of these…
Read MoreQuery-Driven Adaptive Sampling
Benjamin Ayton, Ph.D., 2022 Brian Williams, Co-Advisor Richard Camilli, Co-Advisor Automated information gathering allows exploration of environments where data is limited and gathering observations introduces risk, such as underwater and…
Read MoreDeveloping the Next Generation of Autonomous Underwater Gliders
Peter Ventola, S.M., 2022 Richard Camilli, Advisor This thesis presents a novel, hybrid Autonomous Underwater Glider (AUG) architecture developed for improved performance in shallow, high-current environments while maintaining all capabilities…
Read MoreHigh Frequency Acoustic Propagation and Modeling in Stratified Estuaries
Nicholas Swanda, S.M., 2022 Andone Lavery, Advisor Acoustic propagation measurements are made in a highly variable and stratified estuary using high frequency transducers (120kHz) on tripods placed across the main…
Read MoreMechanisms of Tidal Dispersion in a Salt Marsh Estuary
Adrian Garcia, Ph.D., 2022 W. Rockwell Geyer, Advisor Dispersion in estuaries sets the length of salinity intrusion and the horizontal mixing rate of waterborne constituents, including larvae, nutrients, sediments, and…
Read MoreOceanic Ambient Noise in the Arctic on the Chukchi Shelf: Broadband Characteristics and Environmental Drivers
Kathryn Fung, S.M., 2022 Julien Bonnel, Advisor This thesis encompasses an analysis of underwater ambient noise collected by the yearlong Canada Basin Acoustic Propagation Experiment (CANAPE) on the Chukchi Shelf…
Read MoreBalancing Exploration and Exploitation: Task-Targeted Exploration for Scientific Decision-Making
Genevieve Flaspohler, Ph.D., 2022 John Fisher, Co-Advisor Nicholas Roy, Co-Advisor How do we collect observational data that reveal fundamental properties of scientific phenomena? This is a key challenge in modern…
Read MoreA Practical Search with Voronoi Distributed Autonomous Marine Swarms
Nicholas Evans, S.M., 2022 Michael Benjamin, Advisor Acoustic propagation measurements are made in a highly variable and stratified estuary using high frequency transducers (120kHz) on tripods placed across the main…
Read MoreIn-situ Characterization of Sea State with Improved Navigation on an Autonomous Underwater Glider
Gregory Burgess, S.M., 2022 Richard Camilli, Advisor This thesis presents an Autonomous Underwater Glider (AUG) architecture with improved onboard navigation and acoustics-based sensing intended to enable basin-scale unattended surveys of…
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