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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Richard Camilli, Associate Scientist
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI
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Alan D. Chave, Senior Scientist
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI
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Keywords: seafloor observatories, electromagnetic measurements, instrumentation

Timothy F. Duda, Associate Scientist
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI
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Keywords: ocean sound propagation, acoustic tomography, acoustic remote sensing, internal waves

Steve Elgar, Senior Scientist
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI
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Keywords: nearshore, surfzone, sediment, morphological processes

Gonzalo Feijoo, Assistant Scientist
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI
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Keywords: numerical modeling, wave propagation, inverse problems

Kenneth G. Foote, Senior Scientist
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI
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Keywords: surveying marine organisms; acoustic scattering

W. Rockwell Geyer, Senior Scientist
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering
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Keywords: estuaries, coastal hydrodynamics, dispersion, sediment transport, morphodynamics

Mark A. Grosenbaugh, Senior Scientist
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI
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Keywords: hydrodynamic modeling, mooring dynamics, fish propulsion

James Irish, Senior Research Specialist
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI
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Keywords: telemetry, water mass formation, stability and mixing, sediment dynamics

Houshuo Jiang, Assistant Scientist
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI
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Keywords: bio-fluid dynamics, small-scale biological-physical interactions, copepod predator and prey perception, zooplankton ecology

Andone Lavery, Assistant Scientist
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI
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Keywords: acoustic scattering processes

James R. Ledwell, Senior Scientist
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI
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Keywords: ocean circulation, tracer release experiments

James F. Lynch, Senior Scientist and Department Chair
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI
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AOPE department overview
Keywords: underwater acoustics, shallow water acoustics, arctic acoustics, acoustic tomography, high-frequency backscatter from particles

Dennis J. McGillicuddy Jr., Senior Scientist
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI
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Keywords: mesoscale dynamics, upper ocean processes, numerical modeling

James C. Preisig, Associate Scientist
Chair, Joint Committee for Applied Ocean Science and Engineering
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI
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Keywords: acoustic propagation modeling, signal processing, numerical optimization, communications.

Britt Raubenheimer, Associate Scientist
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI
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Keywords: surf and swashzone processes, wave runup, alongshore currents

Hanumant Singh, Associate Scientist
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI
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Keywords: computer vision, system architecture, algorithms for acoustic and optical imaging, underwater vehicle system architecture, communications, docking

Timothy K. Stanton, Senior Scientist
J. Seward Johnson Chair, Education Coordinator
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI
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Keywords: acoustic scattering, marine organisms, sea ice, scattering models

Gene Terray, Research Specialist
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI
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Keywords: upper ocean dynamics, air-sea interaction, surface waves, boundary layer mechanics, acoustic remote sensing, signal processing

Peter A. Traykovski, Associate Scientist
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI
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Keywords: hydrodynamics, sediment dynamics, bedform processes

John H. Trowbridge, Senior Scientist
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI
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Keywords: geophysical boundary layers, mechanics of sediment transport, shelf and nearshore processes

Sheri N. White, Assistant Scientist
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI
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Keywords: in situ instrumentation, optics, Raman spectroscopy, hydrothermal vents

Albert J. Williams III, Scientist Emeritus
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI
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Keywords: ocean mixing processes, boundary layer measurements, modeling, sediment/fluid interaction, oceanographic instrumentation.

Dana R. Yoerger, Senior Scientist
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI
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Keywords: robotics, Autonomous Benthic Explorer, deep sea observatories

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Arthur B. Baggeroer, Ford Professor of Engineering
Depts. of Electrical Engineering/Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering, MIT
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Keywords: sonar, ocean acoustics, adaptive arrays

Rafael L. Bras, Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT
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Keywords: fluvial geomorphology, hydroclimatology

John J. Leonard, Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering, MIT
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Keywords: sensor data fusion, autonomous underwater vehicles, adaptive echolocation

Pierre Lermusiaux, Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering and Ocean Science
and Engineering, MIT
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MODELSEAS lab

Ole S. Madsen, Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT
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Keywords: wave mechanics, sediment transport mechanics, turbulent boundary layers

Nicholas Makris, Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering, MIT
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Keywords: acoustical oceanography, underwater imaging, matched field tomography

Chiang C. Mei, Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT
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Keywords: bubble dynamics, wave processes, hydrodynamics

Jerome H. Milgram, Professor
Mechanical Engineering, MIT
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Keywords: dynamics, numerical simulations, ocean measurements

Heidi M. Nepf, Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT
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Keywords: turbulence, wave-breaking, estuaries

Alan Oppenheim, Distinguished Professor
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science, MIT
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Keywords: signal processing, geophysical signal processing, chaotic and fractal signals

Henrik Schmidt, Professor
Mechanical Engineering, MIT
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Keywords: numerical modeling, seismo-acoustic propagation

Alexandra H. Techet, Associate Professor
Mechanical and Ocean Engineering, MIT
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Seth Teller, Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
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Michael Triantafyllou, Professor
Director, Center for Ocean Engineering
Mechanical Engineering, MIT
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Keywords: fluid-structure interactions, autonomous underwater vehicles

J. Kim Vandiver, Professor
Mechanical Engineering, MIT
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Keywords: flow-induced vibration, dynamics of offshore structures

John Wyatt, Professor
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science, MIT
Keywords: noise systems, nonlinear circuits

Dick K.P. Yue, Professor
Mechanical Engineering, MIT
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Keywords: vortex dynamics, wave kinematics, hydromechanics