Keith Alverson

Executive Director, PAGES International Project Office, MIT Course 12W (1995 Ph.D.)

Interests include the use of coral reefs to reconstruct past climate dynamics, evaluating ongoing threats to these ecosystems, ocean physics and dynamics.

(keith.alverson@pages.unibe.ch)

 

Jamie Anderson

Leader, Vehicle Systems Group, Draper Laboratory, MIT Course 13W (1992 S.M.), Course 13W (1996 Ph.D.)

For the last five years, Dr. Anderson has engineered robotic vehicle systems for land, sea, and aerial applications. Recent projects include a high-g survivable aerial reconnaissance vehicle and a 300 lb. autonomous robotic vehicle which resembles and swims like a tuna.

(jamie@draper.com)

 

Arthur Baggeroer

Professor, Departments of Ocean Engineering (Course 13) and Electrical Engineering (Course 6), MIT. MIT Course 6 (1965 S.M.), Course 6 (1965 EE), Course 6 (1968 D.Sc.)

Arthur B. Baggeroer is a Ford professor of Engineering in the Departments of Ocean Engineering and Electrical engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He received the degrees of B.S.E.E. from Purdue University in 1963 and Sc.D. from MIT in 1968. he has also been a consultant to the Chief of Naval Research at the NATO SACLANT Center in 1977 and a Cecil and Ida Green Scholar at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1990 while on sabbatical leaves. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Acoustical Society of America. He received the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society Distinguished Technical Achievement Award in 1991 and was elected a member of the Executive Council of the Acoustical Society from 1994-1997. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1995 and awarded the Secretary of the Navy/Chief of Naval Operations Chair in Oceanographic Science in 1998. His research has concerned sonar array processing, acoustic telemetry and most recently global acoustics and matched field array processing. He also has had a long affiliation with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and was Director of the MIT-Woods Hole Joint Program from 1983-1988.

(abb@boreas.mit.edu)

 

James Bales

Assistant Director , Edgerton Center, MIT. MIT Course 8 (1991 Ph.D.)

Prior to becoming Assistant Director of the Edgerton Center, Dr. Bales spent seven years at MIT Sea Grant building autonomous underwater vehicles. His specialties were non-acoustic sensors and power systems for underwater vehicles.

(bales@mit.edu)

 

Ewann Berntson

Molecular Geneticist, Conservation Biology Division, National Marine Fisheries Service. MIT Course 7W (1998 Ph.D.)

Dr. Berntson’sdoctoral thesis work concerned the molecular evolution of corals and anemones, and how the genetically derived groupings compared to taxonomies based on physical characteristics. Her research included
investigations of a large number of deep-sea corals, which she collected from the Hawaiian seamount chain from depths of 800-1500 meters using the Pisces V submersible. She is also interested in the biology of hydrothermal vent communities, and participated in several cruises to the East Pacific Rise off the west coast of Mexico with the Alvin submersible. This project looked at the processes involved in larval recruitment and survival around hydrothermal vents. Her postdoctoral fellowship was in marine conservation biology, striving to promote scientific research in marine conservation, and serving as a bridge between the scientific community and policy makers. Her current position is with the National Marine Fisheries Service (part of NOAA), where she investigates population genetics of salmon and trout from the Pacific Northwest..

(ewann.berntson@noaa.gov)

 

Patrick Breen

President, Event Zero, MIT Course 6 (1989 S.B.)

Patrick Breen is co-founder of Event Zero, a consulting company focusing on developing and implementing eBusiness solutions for the traditional and new economy market. His management responsibilities have included sales, technical operations, human resources, knowledge management and all project delivery staff.

(pbreen@mediaone.net)

 

Winslow Burleson

Graduate Student , Media Laboratory, MIT

Winslow Burleson is particularly interested in portable habitats for shallow water saturation diving as a way to increase research access to diverse aquatic environments. His oceanographic experience includes research cruises in the Caribbean with Sea Education Association exploring micro-pelagic tar and plastic distributions and subsequent work experience in the Gulf of Mexico with Rice University's RV LoneStar conducting high-resolution hydrophonic surveys of sand banks and paleo-climatologic comparisons with Antarctic sediments. He is an active NAUI SCUBA Instructor and has been a student member of the Explorers Club. As a Life Member of the Eagle Scout Association of the Boy Scouts of America he was elected first alternate for the NSF-BSA Antarctic Science Program in 1989 and later visited Antarctica in 2000. He is currently working with the president of the New England Aquarium on new interactive technologies for their exhibit expansion. He holds a masters degree in Product Design from Stanford University where he focused on expedition technologies for rainforest canopy access and lectured in Mechanical Engineering: Visual Thinking and Brainstorming. Previously, he was Co -Principle Investigator on the Hubble Space Telescope Investigation of Binary Asteroids and worked at the SETI Institute as a curriculum developer. As a PhD Candidate at the MIT Media Lab he works in the area of Context Awareness focusing on Creativity and Motivation.

(win@media.mit.edu)

 

Peter Cheimets

Project Engineer , Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, MIT Course 2 (1978 S.B.)

Peter Cheimets specializes in the development of innovative electro-mechanical approaches to complex engineering problems. As a member of NASA's Independent Assessment Board of the Space Interferometer Mission, among other projects, he has experience with the review of large experimental design projects with an eye toward ensuring effective scientific research.

(pcheimets@cfa.harvard.edu)

 

Erik Christensen

Commander, Experimental Diving Unit, United States Navy, MIT Course 13A (1989 NE), Course 2 (1989 S.M.)

Commissioned in 1979, Commander Christensen served the Navy in many capacities before assuming command of the Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU) in 1998. NEDU tests and evaluates diving, hyperbaric and other life support systems and procedures, and conducts research and development in biomedical and
environmental physiology. Over the course of his distinguished career, Commander Christensen has been awarded the Meritorious Service Medal (two awards), the Navy Commendation Medal (three awards), and the Navy Achievement Medal (three awards).

(christensenen@nedu.navsea.navy.mil)

 

Joseph Coburn

Ship Operations Manager, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MIT Course 13 (1961 S.M.)

Joseph Coburn spend 22 years on active duty with the U.S. Coast Guard. He was an instructor at the Coast Guard Academy for a time and served as Industrial Manager) of the Coast Guard's shipyard in Curtis Bay, MD.
Moving on to a second career in in marine engineering consulting, he spent almost two years in Tehran as an advisor to the Imperial Iranian Navy, seven years exploring arctic applications of naval architecture and marine engineering, and one year as a "beltway bandit". He became Ship Operations Manager at WHOI in 1987.

(jcoburn@whoi.edu)

 

Katy Croff

Graduate Student , Ocean Engineering (Course 13M), MIT. MIT Course 13 (2000 S.B.)

Katy Croff is taking a sabbatical from her graduate work at MIT to be a Knauss Ocean Policy Fellow, working in NOAA's new Office of Ocean Exploration. She has been part of Professor David Mindell's Research Group in Technology, Archaeology, and the Deep Sea, and has participated in various marine archaeology and ocean exploration projects in the Black Sea and elsewhere.

(Katy.Croff@noaa.gov)

 

Millard S. Firebaugh

Rear Admiral, United States Navy (Ret.), Vice President of of Innovation and Chief Engineer, Electric Boat Corporation, MIT Course 8 (1961 S.B.), Course 13A (1966 NE), Course 6 (1966 S.M.), Course 13 (1972 D.Sc.)

Admiral Firebaugh's career with the Navy began as an engineering duty officer in 1961. Following duty on USS Mitscher (DL-2), he returned to MIT for a period, earning both Masters and Naval Engineer degrees. During this time, he participated in the search for the remains of the USS Thresher (SSN-593). After qualifying as a salvage diver, he served as a ship superintendent in the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, and was involved in the overhauls of nuclear submarines and the construction of the deep diving research submarine USS Dolphin (AGSS-555). He returned to MIT once again to earn a Doctorate in Ocean Engineering in 1972. Subsequently, he supported the Navy’s deep submergence assets at Submarine Development Group One and administered contracts for the construction of Los Angeles Class submarines at Electric Boat. In 1979, Admiral Firebaugh began service in the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command in submarine design and naval architecture. He managed the design of the SSN688 Class Vertical Launch System which was deployed on 32 ships. He was selected as program manager to initiate design and construction of the Seawolf Class submarines. After seeing the program through design and award of contracts to construct the first two ships of the class, he became Chief Engineer of the Naval Sea Systems Command, serving in that position until retirement from the Navy in 1995. After departing the Navy, he was involved in various technical activities including the remediation of nuclear waste. In 1997, he returned to the submarine business at Electric Boat Corporation. Admiral Firebaugh holds the American Society of Naval Engineers Gold Medal and the US Navy Distinguished Service Medal. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering and the Cosmos Club of Washington, DC. He also is the editor of the second edition of "Naval Engineering and American Sea Power".

(MFirebaugh@aol.com)

 

Charles Flagg

Oceanographer, Brookhaven National Laboratory, MIT Course 13 (1971 S.M.), Course 19W (1977 Ph.D.)

Interests include ocean currents and how the physical environment impacts biogeochemical processes and the dispersion of material.

(flagg@bnl.gov)

 

David Flanagan

President, Bamboo Fencer, Inc., MIT Course 13A (1962 NE, S.M.)

David Flanagan spent thirty years in the Coast Guard. His assignments included being the engineer on an icebreaker deployed to the Antarctic, ship design and repair, research and development, teaching engineering subjects at the Coast Guard Academy, being Commanding Officer of a loran station in Korea, intelligence work, search and rescue, and Chief of the Navigation Division of the Panama Canal. For the past fifteen years he has been designing and manufacturing products of bamboo that is grown as a tropical rain forest reclamation project. .

(Dave@bamboofencer.com)

 

Frank Geisel

Senior Systems Engineer, Draper Laboratories, MIT Course 13 (1980 S.B.)

Frank Geisel has more than 20 years experience in science and industry, and has been responsible for management and engineering direction for many major technical programs.  Presently he is Senior Systems Engineer for a major C4ISR program that will provide real-time tactical information delivery and dissemination for a DOD Enterprise. He is responsible for design, specification, implementation of IT integration and Œinformation exchange‚ services based on COTS standards. He also is resposnsible for adapting commercial standard CONOPS and transaction models to establish and operate Œb-2-b‚ and Œb-2-c.  Previous work:  (1) Integration of voice, video/data, & multimedia resources for new facility construction at the U.S. Naval War College, acting as Liaison between MILCON, contractors and subs, and system users.  (2) Project Manager for Deep Water Integrated Navigation & Tracking System.  (3) extensive at-sea systems testing, and at-sea systems operation & navigation.  (4) engineering/development of SHARPS (a 300kHz underwater acoustic measurement system), and the Telerobotic ROV Adaptive Control System (TRACS).  (5)  eleven major expedition  in Arctic and Antarctic seas, assessing feasibility of oil and gas transportation systems in off-shore ice covered waters.

(fgeisel@draper.com)

 

Daniel Goldner

Consultant, Ventana Systems, Inc., MIT Course 12W (1998 Ph.D.)

Daniel Goldner's Ph.D. research primarily involved modeling, data analysis, and data assimilation/inverse modeling. As a consultant for Ventana Systems, Inc., his responsibilities include the construction of simulation models of businesses or organizational systems and the assimilation of available data into it. The simulation models are then used to diagnose root causes of known problems, or to evaluate possible outcomes of potential decisions. He often creates the model using the System Dynamics framework of Jay Forrester et al. at the Sloan School; it's an accessible modeling framework for nonlinear time-dependent systems and allows characterizations of non-physical state variables like enthusiasm or public opinion as they interact with standard ones like money or materials. He has, for example, modeled the acceptance of a new pharmaceutical by doctors, patients, and HMOs; likely causes of schedule and cost overruns for a design-and-build program of a prototype spacecraft, and the interaction of different parts of a bank to determine overall performance.

(dan@vensim.com)

 

J. Frederick Grassle

Professor, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University

Interests include the relationship of sediment transport processes to benthic community structure, measurements of biodiversity, especially in the deep sea; and interdisciplinary studies of benthic ecosystems

(grassle@imcs.rutgers.edu)

 

Todd Harland-White

Naval Architect , Northrop Grumman, MIT Course 13 (1976 S.B., 1977 S.M.)

Todd Harland-White's expertise includes the design of deep ocean systems, including unmanned ROVs and
manned submersibles.

(todd@alum.mit.edu)

 

Stan Hart

Senior Scientist , Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MIT Course 12 (1956 S.B., 1960 Ph.D.)

Stan Hart was a staff member at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, a Visiting Professor at the University of California - San Diego, and - for many years - Professor in Course 12 at MIT before joining the WHOI staff in 1989. His research interests include the geochemistry of volcanic rocks found on the ocean floor and what that information can tell us about mantle processes.

(shart@whoi.edu)

 

Patrick Keenan

Commander, U.S. Navy Ship Repair Unit, Bahrain, MIT Course 3 (1993 S.M.), Course 13A (1993 OCE)

Commander Keenan is an Engineering Duty Officer with marine salvage and ship repair specialties. He has served at sea in engineering and deck/salvage capacities aboard ATF and ARS class salvage ships and as a fleet salvage officer. Shore assignments have included hyperbaric maintenance officer at a diving research facility, drydocking and diving officer in a naval shipyard, and aircraft carrier repair officer at a supervisor of shipbuilding. He is qualified in U.S. Navy air, mixed gas and saturation diving systems. His research relating to waterborne ship repair has been published in the Naval Engineers Journal and he holds a U.S. patent for his invention Method and Apparatus for Thermal Insulation of Shielded Metal Arc Welds. CDR Keenan was the 2000 American Society of Naval Engineers Claude A Jones Award winner for excellence in the field of Naval Engineering.

(keenanp@bahrain.navy.mil)

 

Hauke Kite-Powell

Research Specialist , Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MIT Course 13 (1985 S.B.), Course 13B (1986 S.M.), Technology and Policy Program (1988 S.M.), Course 13 (1992 Ph.D.)

Dr. Hauke Kite-Powell's interests focus on the management and regulation of technology-intensive marine industries such as shipping, fishing, and fish farming. His recent work includes investigations of the economics of open ocean aquaculture, links between fisheries management and commercial fishing vessel safety, and cost-effectiveness of measures to reduce ship strike mortality in right whales off the eastern United States.

(hauke@whoi.edu)

 

John Krieder

Vice President and General Manager, Oceaneering Technologies, MIT Course 13W (1975 Oc.E.), Course 13 (1975 S.M.)

After graduating from the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Ocean Engineering, John worked as an engineer for Shell Oil Company involved in exploration and development in frontier areas. This included offshore Alaska and deepwater prospects off California. He also headed the Arctic Research Group developing floating and fixed structure concepts for development in the offshore Arctic. Going to work for Oceaneering, John then became heavily involved in deep ocean remotely-operated vehicles (ROV’s). He was Project Manager for developing the CURV ROV system for the US Navy, which dove to 20,000 ft in 1990. Throughout the last decade, John has been involved with numerous ROV design/build projects and at-sea operations. As General Manager of Oceaneering Technologies, John has overseen growth into other areas of remotely controlled mechanical systems, including systems for installing and repairing subsea cables, new systems for hull cleaning and inspection, cleaning up radioactively contaminated sites for the DOE, and large animated figures for theme parks. OTECH has also been a leader in developing underwater ship repair and welding techniques on both US Navy and commercial ships.

(kreider@adtech2.oceaneering.com)

 

Joseph Lassiter

Professor, Harvard Business School, MIT Course 2A (1970 S.B.), Course 13 (1970 S.M.),SM Course 13 1970, Course 13 (1971 Ph.D.)

Joe Lassiter teaches Entrepreneurial Marketing in the Harvard Business School MBA Program. He is Co-Faculty Advisor to the HBS Student Business Plan Contest. Joe's research focuses on new companies and new ventures including those formed within existing organizations. He is active in new ventures and serves on the boards of Bluefin Robotics (private/ autonomous underwater vehicles), the Cambridge Chapter of the Center for the Quality of Management (not-for-profit/mutual learning) and RSA Security (NASDAQ/network security & data encryption) as well as several private companies. From 1994 to 1996, Joe was President of Wildfire Communications, a telecommunications software venture backed by Matrix Partners and Greylock Management. From 1977 to 1994, Joe was Vice President of Teradyne, the NYSE-listed automatic test equipment manufacturer, and a member of its Management Committee. Joe began his career at MIT's Department of Ocean Engineering as an Instructor in 1970. He was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1972. Joe was awarded National Science, Adams and McDermott Fellowships. He was elected to Sigma Xi.

(jlassiter@hbs.edu)

 

Charles Mazel

Principal Research Scientist, Physical Sciences Incorporated, MIT Course 13 (1976 S.M.)

Interests include developing equipment for viewing and imaging fluorescence, developing instrumentation to measure fluorescence and other optical characteristics, and conducting research on the optical properties of marine environments such as those of coral reefs.

(mazel@psicorp.com)

 

Anna McCann

Visiting Scholar, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, MIT

Dr. Anna Marguerite McCann has worked extensively in the field of maritime archaeology. She is
particularly known for her study of ancient harbors and most recently for her work exploring the deep sea with new robotic technology. She is currently Archaeological Director for the Italian AUV Project of the Department of Ocean Engineering. She was the archaeological director for the first Jason Project in 1989, directed by Robert Ballard, that initiated the archaeological exploration of the deep sea with remotely operated vehicles, and continues to direct the Skerki Bank Deep Sea archaeological project off Sicily. She has taught widely, including the University of California at Berkeley, University of Washington in Seattle, Williams College, Trinity College and Boston University. She is a graduate of Wellesley College (1954) and received their distinguished Alumnae Achievement Award in 1997. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Indiana (1965) and was the recipient of the Archaeology Institute of America's Gold Medal for 1998. She has published five books as well as some 50 articles.

(amccann@bu.edu)

 

Judith McDowell

Senior Scientist , Department of Biology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Focusing on the physiological effects of contaminants on marine animals, Judith McDowell's research has led her on expeditions throughout the world. She has received numerous awards for her research including the New
England Monthly "Local Hero" Award in 1985, EPA's Environmental Merit Award in 1987, and a Pew Fellowship in Conservation and the Environment in 1995. McDowell also holds the positions of Coordinator of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Sea Grant Program and Associate Dean of the MIT-WHOI Joint Program
in Oceanography.

(jmcdowell@whoi.edu)

 

Steven Miller

Director, NOAA National Undersea Research Center, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Steven Miller's research focuses on coral reef ecology, water quality issues, seaweeds, and long-term biological and oceanographic studies in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The National Undersea Research Center, under Dr. Miller's supervision, directs the operation of the world's only manned undersea research laboratory, Aquarius.

(smiller@gate.net)

 

David Mindell

Associate Professor , Program in Science, Technology, and Society, MIT.

David A. Mindell is Dibner Associate Professor in the History of Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is founder and director of the DeepArch research group at MIT in technology, archaeology, and the deep sea. He is an Adjunct Researcher at the Institute for Exploration (founded by Dr. Robert Ballard). Before coming to MIT Mindell worked as a research engineer in the Deep Submergence Laboratory of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where he is currently a Visiting Investigator. There he
conducted research in parallel distributed control systems for remotely-operated and autonomous underwater vehicles for exploring the deepest parts of the ocean. He developed the control system and pilot
interface for Woods Hole's JASON vehicle, as well as its high-frequency acoustic navigation system, called EXACT, and is currently developing acoustic methods for modeling 3-d structures buried in the seafloor.
Mindell has participated in over twenty oceanographic cruises, including expeditions to hydrothermal vents, Guadalcanal, the Lusitania, the Yorktown, and Carthaginian and Phoenician shipwrecks in the Mediterranean.
For two years, he has been leading surveys, along with Dr. Robert Ballard, in the Black Sea off of Sinop, Turkey to locate well-preserved shipwrecks in anoxic bottom water and to find Neolithic settlements from prior to the
flood that inundated the Black Sea in 5,500 b.c. He recently returned from an expedition to image the inside of the Civil War submarine CSS Hunley and the turret of the Civil War ironclad Monitor, using an ultrasonic
instrument he developed, which provided the first views inside the historic vessel. He is the author of War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor, and of Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics (forthcoming), both from Johns Hopkins University Press..

(mindell@mit.edu)

Robert Mitchell

Medical Student , University of South Carolina, MIT Course 10 (1998 S.B.)

After working as a chemical engineer for two years, Robert Mitchell returned to school to pursue a medical degree to prepare him for a career in aerospace medicine. He is an ensign in the US Navy, with training in SCUBA and water survival.

(docktorpuck@yahoo.com)

 

Lauren Mullineaux

Associate Scientist , Department of Biology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Lauren Mullineaux's expertise is in hydrothermal vent ecology. She sat on the National Academy panel that evaluated plans for seafloor observatories, including those at mid-ocean ridges. She has also dived in support capacity for the Hydrolab habitat when it was positioned on a coral reef in St. Croix.

(lmullineaux@whoi.edu)

 

James Newman

President , Woods Hole Marine Systems, Inc., MIT Course 13 (1981 S.B., 1986 S.M.)

Jim Newman is an oceanographic engineer, specializing in the development and application of underwater vehicles for ocean science. His company, Woods Hole Marine Systems, has supplied underwater vehicles for Robert Ballard's Institute for Exploration among other organizations.

(jnewman@whmsi.com)

 

Payal Parekh

Graduate Student , Chemical Oceanography (Course 12), MIT

Working on a doctoral dissertation in chemical oceanography, Payal Parekh's research entails modeling the chemical cycling of iron, a necessary nutrient for marine phytoplankton that has implications on the ability of the oceans to absorb carbon dioxide. Her research focuses on how the coupling of physical and chemical processes affect the global distribution of iron.

(parekh@pimms.mit.edu)

 

Lawrence Pratt

Senior Scientist , Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MIT Course 12W (1982 Ph.D.)

Larry pratt's research interests lie in the physics of ocean circulation, waves, currents, and mixing.

(lpratt@whoi.edu)

 

Robert Randall

President , Randall Engineering, MIT Course 13 (1969 S.B.)

Robert Randall worked at General Dynamics/Electric Boat Division from 1969-1977 on the design and construction of submarines for the U.S. Navy. He was steel trades superintendent in charge of hull construction on SSBN Ohio, lead ship of the "Trident" class of submarines. Later, as principal in Thames Engineering
Consultants, Inc., he collaborated in the design of what he believes to be the first manned submersible built in Australia.

(randallengineering@alum.mit.edu)

 

Peter Sebelius

Group Leader, Mechanical Engineering Group, Draper Laboratory, MIT Course 13 (1976 S.B., S.M.)

At Draper Laboratory, Peter Sebelius is responsible for all mechanical design and analysis functions performed by a group of 14 mechanical engineering professionals. Additionally, he is responsible for the performance of four Draper Laboratory Fellows performing graduate level research. Mr. Sebelius was Associate Director of the Mechanical Design/Analysis Directorate for six years. Prior to that, he was Section Chief of the Vehicle Design Section responsible for all Submersible Vehicle Design activities and vehicle design R&D. He also served as Technical Director for the $28 million UUV project, Project Manger and Task Leader for the $6 million Hydrodynamics/Hydroacoustics Technology Center, and Project Manager/ Technical Director for the Super Conducting Super Collider Project at Draper Lab. Previously, Mr. Sebelius worked as the Mechanical Technical Director for the design, fabrication and testing of a deep diving oceanographic system. He supervised professional and technical personnel in the performance of a $6.5 million effort on the project. Mr. Sebelius also served with the U.S. Navy from 1976-1982 as a commissioned officer - engineering duty. He was a member of the U.S. Navy Reserve from 1982 through 1998 and recently retired with the rank of Commander from the U.S. Naval Reserve.

(psebelius@draper.com)

 

Ralph Stephen

Senior Scientist , Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Ralph Stephen received his Bachelors Degree in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto in 1974 and his Doctoral Degree in Marine Geophysics from the University of Cambridge in 1978. His thesis was on the seismic structure of upper oceanic crust and the first borehole seismic experiment from the Deep Sea Drilling Project vessel Glomar Challenger. Since 1978 he has been on the scientific staff of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and is now a Senior Scientist. Dr. Stephen's research includes developing borehole seismic installations on the deep seafloor to extend the Global Seismic Network to the ocean basins. He also develops software to predict sound propagation in complex media. Dr. Stephen has been active in the WHOI/MIT Joint Program and has taught courses in Marine Geology and Geophysics (12.710), Advanced Marine Seismology (12.712), and Numerical Wave Propagation(12.571).

(rstephen@whoi.edu)

 

Arlie Sterling

President, Marsoft Incorporated, MIT Course 14 (1977 S.B.), Course 15 (1985 Ph.D.)

Interests include market research and forecasting, investment planning, and risk assessment in the maritime industry.

(sterling@marsoft.com)

 

James Turney

Consultant, Pro Data Systems, Inc., MIT Course 15 (1964 S.M.)

Jim Turney's experience is in the computer software and applications profession. He has founded and managed small business and managed and consulted with small and large business enterprises. His current activity includes classroom and online degree-credit Computer Science teaching as adjunct to 3 institutions.

(drjet@onr.com)

 

Kim Vandiver

Professor, Ocean Engineering (Course 13), MIT. MIT Course 13 (1969 S.M.), Course 13W (1975 Ph.D.)

In addition to serving as Director of MIT's Edgerton Center, Kim Vandiver is dean of Undergraduate Research. His research interests include structural dynamics and vibration fatigue failure.

(kimv@mit.edu)

 

Cliff Whitcomb

Director of Learning, MIT-UTC Program, Ocean Engineering (Course 13), MIT. MIT Course 13 (1969 S.M.), Course 13W (1975 Ph.D.)

Interests include systems engineering, multidisciplinary design optimization, product development, naval surface combatant design, submarine design, submarine propulsion systems, and electric power systems engineering.

(whitcomb@mit.edu)