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Atmospheric Sciences
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Chaja, Hanna
Name:
Hanna Chaja
Program / Degree:
Atmospheric Sciences / PhD
Email:
hxc907@miami.edu
Advisor:
Brian Mapes
Research Topic:
Research Keywords:
Gravity Waves, Troposphere, Stratocumulus Clouds, Satellite Imagery
Chamhitt, Shanna
Name:
Shanna Chamhitt test
Program / Degree:
Atmospheric Sciences / PhD
Email:
Sxc2720@miami.edu
Advisor:
David Nolan
Research Topic:
Tropical Cyclone Outflow Layer.
Research Keywords:
Outflow layer, gravity waves, stratospheric interactions
Christie, James
Name:
James Christie
Program / Degree:
Atmospheric Sciences / PhD
Website:
Email:
jac89554@miami.edu
Advisor:
Cassandra Gaston
Research Topic:
Elucidating how heterogeneous
reactions in the atmosphere lead to secondary pollutants.
Research Keywords:
Air Quality, Atmospheric Chemistry,
Mass Spectrometry, Field Science, Laboratory Science
DiPietro, Sophia
Name:
Sophia DiPietro
Program / Degree:
Atmospheric Sciences / PhD
Email:
sophia.dipietro@earth.miami.edu
Advisor:
Amy Clement
Research Topic:
Climate Change
Research Keywords:
Climate, extreme events, extreme heat, climate impacts
Donahue, Matthew
Name:
Matthew
Donahue
Program / Degree:
Atmospheric Sciences / PhD
Email:
mxd45136@miami.edu
Advisor:
Sharan Majumdar
Research Topic:
Weather Forecasting
Downs, Will
Name:
Will Downs
Program / Degree:
Atmospheric Sciences / PhD
Email:
will.downs@earth.miami.edu
Advisor:
Sharan Majumdar
Research Topic:
Formation and Early Organization of Tropical Cyclones
Research Keywords:
Tropical Cyclones, Tropical Cyclogenesis, Hurricanes, Machine Learning, Modeling
Englert, Kerri
Name:
Kerri Englert
Program / Degree:
Atmospheric Sciences / PhD
Email:
Kxe210@miami.edu
Advisor:
Sharan Majumdar
Research Topic:
Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification
Research Keywords:
Cyclone, storm, hurricane, rapid, intensification, cloud
Johnston, Lily
Name:
Lily
Johnston
Program / Degree:
Atmospheric Sciences / PhD
Email:
lilyjohnston@miami.edu
Advisor:
Ben Kirtman
Research Topic:
Subseasonal-Interannual Prediction
Research Keywords:
ENSO, NMME, Climate Variability, High Resolution Modeling, Intraseasonal-to-Interannual prediction
Kaiser, Josiah
Name:
Josiah Kaiser
Program / Degree:
Atmospheric Sciences / PhD
Email:
jmk433@miami.edu
Advisor:
Ben Kirtman
Research Topic:
Regional Climate Change
Research Keywords:
Climate, Environment, Atmosphere, Pollution, Models, Dynamics
Mahoney, Aidan
Name:
Aidan Mahoney
Program / Degree:
Atmospheric Sciences / PhD
Email:
aidan.mahoney@miami.edu
Advisor:
Brian Soden
Research Topic:
Tropical Cyclones
Research Keywords:
tropical cyclones, climate change, hurricanes, thermodynamics
Martinez, Cait
Name:
Cait Martinez
Program / Degree:
Atmospheric Sciences / PhD
Email:
caitmartinez@miami.edu
Advisor:
Ben Kirtman
Research Topic:
The role of atmospheric noise on ENSO predictability
Research Keywords:
climate variability and predictability, ENSO, ML
Mischell, Eric
Name:
Eric Mischell
Program / Degree:
Atmospheric Sciences / PhD
Email:
eric.mischell@earth.miami.edu
Advisor:
Brian Soden
Research Topic:
The response of the hydrological cycle to global warming
Research Keywords:
Extreme rainfall, convection, satellite observations
Park, Chanyoung
Name:
Chanyoung Park
Program / Degree:
Atmospheric Sciences / PhD
Email:
chanyoung.park@miami.edu
Website:
Advisor:
Dr. Brian Soden
Research Topic:
Constraining model simulations of aerosol-cloud interactions using
satellite observations
Research Keywords:
Aerosol-cloud interaction, Climate sensitivity
Perez, Michael
Name:
Michael Perez
Program / Degree:
Atmospheric Sciences / PhD
Email:
michaelperez@miami.edu
Advisor:
Dr. Paquita Zuidema
Research Topic:
Arctic Cloud Radiative Properties
Research Keywords:
Arctic clouds, ARCSIX, Radiative Equilibrium, Climate Change, the New Arctic
Pine, Cameron
Name:
Cameron Pine
Program / Degree:
Atmospheric Sciences / PhD
Email:
cmp284@miami.edu
Advisor:
David Nolan
Research Topic:
Using a novel ground-radar dataset
to examine wind shear impacts on TC structure and intensity
Research Keywords:
TC Structure, Vertical Wind Shear,
Vortex Tilt,Precipitation Asymmetry, Radar, Machine Learning,
Ventilation, Intensity Change
Phoa, Theresia
Name:
Theresia Phoa
Program / Degree:
Atmospheric Sciences / PhD
Email:
tbp32@miami.edu
Advisor:
Ben Kirtman
Research Topic:
Climate Extremes
Research Keywords:
climate change, climate extremes, applied meteorology
Rocha, Juliette
Name:
Juliette Rocha
Program / Degree:
Atmospheric Sciences / PhD
Website:
Email:
julietterocha@miami.edu
Advisor:
Marybeth Arcodia
Research Topic:
Ocean–Atmosphere–Land
Interactions and Machine Learning for
Improved Subseasonal Precipitation
Research Keywords:
Artificial intelligence,
subseasonal, precipitation, prediction,
air-sea interactions, land-atmosphere interactions
Sargent, Tori
Name:
Tori Sargent
Program / Degree:
Atmospheric Sciences / PhD
Website
Email:
t.sargent@miami.edu
Advisor:
Ben Kirtman
Emily Becker
Research Topic:
Coastal climate
dynamics downscaling climate models for
regional applications sea level variability
Research Keywords:
climate predictability,
sea level variability,
climate change, climate adaptation, regional predictions
Schuler, Christina
Name:
Christina Schuler
Program / Degree:
Atmospheric Sciences / PhD
Email:
ct123@miami.edu
Advisor:
Ben Kirtman
Research Topic:
Coupled variability in the
NASH-Gulf Stream system and its influence on tropical cyclones
Research Keywords:
North Atlantic, NASH,
Gulf Stream, tropical cyclones, coupled variability
Tatro, Tyler
Name:
Tyler Tatro
Program / Degree:
Atmospheric Sciences / PhD
Email:
txt599@miami.edu
Advisor:
Paquita Zuidema
Research Topic:
smoke-cloud interactions in the southeast Atlantic
Research Keywords:
aerosols, clouds, regional climate
Wellmeyer, Evan
Name:
Evan Wellmeyer
Program / Degree:
Atmospheric Sciences / PhD
Email:
ewellmeyer@miami.edu
Advisor:
Brian Soden
Research Topic:
Machine Learning in Atmospheric Sciences.
Research Keywords:
Machine Learning, Climate, Atmospheric Science, Prediction, Climate Change, Tropical Cyclones
Wilson, Alexis
Name:
Alexis Wilson
Program / Degree:
Atmospheric Sciences / PhD
Email:
avw30@miami.edu
Advisor:
Sharan Majumdar
Research Topic:
Tropical Cyclogenesis in the Caribbean
Research Keywords:
Atmospheric Science,
Tropical Meteorology, Tropical Cyclones,
Cyclogenesis, African Easterly Waves
Environmental Science and Policy
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Bhattacharyya, Niloy
Name:
Niloy Bhattacharyya
Program / Degree:
Environmental Science & Policy / M.S
Email:
nbb42@miami.edu
Advisor:
Jennifer Jacquet
Research topic:
How Aquaculture Companies Frame
Issues about the Environment, Animals, and Public Health
Research keywords:
Animal welfare, public health,
aquaculture, environmental policy, framing the environment
Berman, Gabriella
Name:
Gabriella Berman
Program / Degree:
Environmental Science &
Policy
/ Ph.D.
Email:
ghberman@miami.edu
Advisor:
Kenneth Broad
Research topic:
High seas resource extraction
and biodiversity.
Research keywords:
geocomputation,
international law, marine science
Carbaugh-Rutland, Alex
Name:
Alex Carbaugh-Rutland
Program / Degree:
Environmental Science and Policy
/ Ph.D.
Advisor:
Jessica Owley
Kenny Broad
Cruz, Mayra
Name:
Mayra  Cruz
Program / Degree:
Environmental Science and Policy
/ Ph.D.
Advisor:
Amy Clement
Cuff, Jalyse
Name:
Jalyse  Cuff
Program / Degree:
Environmental Science and Policy
/ Ph.D.
Advisor:
Katharine Mach
Cunill Flores, José María
Name:
José María Cunill Flores
Program / Degree:
Environmental Science & Policy / Ph.D
Email:
jmc1118@miami.edu
Website:
Google Scholar
Advisor:
Alberto J. Caban-Martínez
Research topic:
How environmental contaminants
affect human health
Research keywords:
toxicology, hazards,
public health, ecology
Geddes, Katie
Name:
Katie  Geddes
Program / Degree:
Environmental Science and Policy
/ Ph.D.
Advisor:
Katharine J. Mach
Hamner, Micaiala
Name:
Micaiala Hamner
Program / Degree:
Environmental Science and Polic
y / Ph.D.
Advisor:
Dr. Tyler Harrison
Hlavin, John
Name:
John Hlavin
Program / Degree:
Environmental Science & Policy / Ph.D
Email:
john.hlavin@earth.miami.edu
Website:
Advisor:
Catherine Macdonald
Research topic:
Multi‑tracer reconstruction of
shark trophodynamics across ontogeny
Research keywords:
sharks, ontogeny,
stable isotope analysis,
DNA metabarcoding, diet, trophic ecology
Jain, Ayushi
Name:
Ayushi Jain
Program / Degree:
Environmental Science & Policy / Ph.D
Email:
axj974@miami.edu
Advisor:
Christopher Searcy
Research topic:
Interconnected Futures:
Socio-ecological Impacts Of Small Dams
Research keywords:
participatory research,
turtle conservation,
freshwater, endangered species, small dams
Jimenez, Aracelis
Name:
Aracelis Jimenez
Program / Degree:
Environmental Science & Policy / Ph.D
Email:
afj30@miami.edu
Website:
Advisor:
Manoj Shivlani
Elizabeth Babcock
Research topic:
Shark depredation
Research keywords:
human-wildlife contact,
fisher-shark conflict, shark depredation, coexistance,
fisheries management, social science,
mixed-methods research
Kraan, Carolien
Name:
Carolien Kraan
Program / Degree:
Environmental Science and Policy
licy / Ph.D.
Advisor:
Dr. Katharine Mach
Martin, Christine
Name:
Christine Martin
Program / Degree:
Environmental Science & Policy / Ph.D
Email:
cmartin1624@miami.edu
Website:
Advisor:
Catherine Macdonald
Research topic:
Shark Behavior & Habitat Use,
Public Engagement
Research keywords:
sharks, behavior, habitat use,
conservation, public engagement, camera tags, marine
ecology, SRC
Perez, Elizabeth
Name:
Elizabeth Perez
Program / Degree:
Environmental Science & Policy / Ph.D
Email:
exp506@miami.edu
Advisor:
Traci Ardren
Research topic:
Zooarchaeology of the Key Largo fishbone
assemblage, and case studies of ITEK in federal decisions.
Research keywords:
zooarchaeology, historic ecology,
Indigenous Traditional
Ecological knowledge, cultural resource management,
natural resource management
Prall, Ethan
Name:
Ethan Prall
Program / Degree:
Environmental Science and Policy
/ Ph.D.
Advisor:
Jennifer Jacquet
Katharine J. Mach
Radpour, Adam
Name:
Adam Radpour
Program / Degree:
Environmental Science & Policy / Ph.D
Email:
aradpour@miami.edu
Website:
Advisor:
Kenny Broad
Martin Grosell
Research topic:
Natural Resource Damage
Assessment policy governing oil spill response/
restoration in U.S. waterways
Research keywords:
Natural Resource
Damage Assessment (NRDA),
Deepwater Horizon (DWH),
total polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (tPAH),
water accommodated fractions (WAF),
species sensitivity distribution (SSD), effect concentrations,
Institutional Grammar Tool (IGT),
Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD)
Reigrut, JD
Name:
JD Reigrut
Program / Degree:
Environmental Science & Policy / Ph.D
Email:
jd.reigrut@miami.edu
Advisor:
Juan Carlos Villaseñor-Derbez
Research topic:
Equity in fisheries management
Research keywords:
Sustainable Fisheries,
Equity in Management,
Governance Systems, Data Science
Schneider, M. Jesse
Name:
M. Jesse Schneider
Program / Degree:
Environmental Science and Policy
/ Ph.D.
Advisor:
Dr. Traci Ardren
Yeager, Emily
Name:
Emily Yeager
Program / Degree:
Environmental Science and Policy / PhD
Email:
eay8@miami.edu
Advisor:
Catherine Macdonald
Research Topic:
Sub-tropical Marine Symbioses
Research Keywords:
Sharks, Remoras, Coral,
Fish, Manta Rays, Bacteria
Zhang, Guohaonan
Name:
Guohaonan Zhang
Program / Degree:
Environmental Science and Policy / PhD
Email:
gxz217@miami.edu
Advisor:
Ching-Hua Chuan
Research Topic:
Environmental Communication
Research Keywords:
Microplastics, Environmental health
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Marine Biology and Ecology
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Cooke, Kenzie
Name:
Kenzie Cooke
Program / Degree:
Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD
Email:
kmc390@miami.edu
Advisor:
Diego Lirman
Research Topic:
Alkalinity enrichment for coral reef restoration
Research Keywords:
coral restoration, coral husbandry,
alkalinity, ocean alkalinity enhancement, calcification
Cordle, Jonathan
Name:
Jonathan Cordle
Program / Degree:
Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD
Email:
jonathan.cordle@earth.miami.edu
Advisor:
Rachael Heuer
Research Topic:
Fish neurophysiology and
behavior in response to climate stress
Research Keywords:
Fish physiology, behavior,
imaging, genetics, climate
Fernandez, Michelle
Name:
Michelle Fernandez
Program / Degree:
Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD
Email:
maf45257@miami.edu
Website:
www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-fernandez1
Advisor:
Elizabeth Babcock
, David Die
Research Topic:
Dolphinfish: changes in distribution &
small-scale fishery interactions in the Inter-American Seas
Research Keywords:
Fisheries, dolphinfish, highly
migratory species, IUU fishing, species distribution model,
ocean warming, fisher surveys
Garcia-Rada, Elka
Name:
Elka Garcia-Rada
Program/Degree:
Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD
Website:
Email:
ejg225@miami.edu
Advisor:
Gabriel Reygondeau
Research Topic:
Seasonality as a Mechanism
Shaping Global Biodiversity Patterns
Research Keywords:
Climate change, SDM, s
easonality, modeling, migration
Gonzalez, Juan
Name:
Juan Gonzalez
Program/Degree:
Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD
Website:
Email:
jdg271@miami.edu
Advisor:
Richard Coleman
Research Topic:
Fish ecology
Research Keywords:
Fish, reef, seagrass, mesophotic, ecology, population genetics
Hardy, Katherine
Name:
Katherine Hardy
Program / Degree:
Marine Biology and
Ecology / PhD
Website:
Email:
katherine.hardy@rsmas.miami.edu
Advisor:
Andrew Baker
Research Topic:
Coral reproduction and juvenile resilience
Research Keywords:
Climate change, coral reproduction, resilience,
cryopreservation, assisted evolution, symbiosis
Kim, Sohyoung
Name:
Sohyoung Kim
Program / Degree:
Marine Biology & Ecology / PhD
Email:
sykim@miami.edu
Advisor:
Nikki Traylor-Knowles
Research Topic:
Cnidarian Immune Cell Culture and HCR-FISH imaging
Research Keywords:
Cnidarian, Coral, Immune Cell, Phagocyte, Cell culture, HCR-FISH
Kiel, Patrick
Name:
Patrick Kiel
Program / Degree:
Marine Biology & Ecology / PhD
Email:
pkiel@rsmas.miami.edu
Website:
Advisor:
Dr. Vivek Prakash
Research Topic:
Investigating how biophysical and
engineering properties modulate coral physiology and
ecology
Research Keywords:
coral reefs, ecology, biophysics, engineering,
restoration, ocean acidification, translational ecology
Lee, Sophia
Name:
Sophia Lee
Program / Degree:
Marine Biology & Ecology / PhD
Email:
sxl4798@miami.edu
Advisor:
Andrew Baker
Research Topic:
Upscaling Coral Reef Restoration
Research Keywords:
Coral reefs, spawning,
outplanting, restoration, conservation, genetic variation
Marek, Bret
Name:
Bret Marek
Program / Degree:
Marine Biology & Ecology / PhD
Email:
bam313@miami.edu
Advisor:
Martin Grosell
Research Topic:
Metabolic Rate and Ichthyocarbonate
Research Keywords:
Ichthyocarbonate, Metabolic Rate, Temperature, Feeding State, Lifestyle, Body Size
Mimick, Ethan
Name:
Ethan Mimick
Program / Degree:
Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD
Email:
emm258@miami.edu
Advisor:
Mohammad Moniruzzaman
Research Topic:
Viral Ecology
Research Keywords:
Polinton, Viruses,
ecology, dynamics, metagenomics
Minch, Benjamin
Name:
Benjamin Minch
Program / Degree:
Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD
Webiste:
Email:
emm258@miami.edu
Advisor:
Mohammad Moniruzzaman
Research Topic:
Giant virus ecology and genomics
Research Keywords:
Giant virus, bioinformatics,
viral ecology, microbiology
Paul, Veronica
Name:
Veronica Paul
Program / Degree:
Marine Biology and Ecology / MS
Email:
vap110@miami.edu
Advisor:
Chris Langdon
Research Topic:
Utilizing Alkalinity Enhancement to
Increase Coral Growth Rates in Ex-Situ Nurseries
Research Keywords:
alkalinity enhancement,
coral restoration,
calcification, aragonite saturation, ex-situ nurseries,
net ecosystem calcification,
species-specific calcification
Seigel, Amalia
Name:
Amalia Seigel
Program / Degree:
Marine Biology &Ecology / PhD
Email:
ams1084@miami.edu
Advisor:
Andrew Baker
Research Topic:
Potential drivers behind symbiont
specificity and competition
Research Keywords:
Symbiont Specificity,
Coral Conservation, Symbiont Manipulation
Vondriska, Clayton
Name:
Clayton Vondriska
Program / Degree:
Marine Biology & Ecology / PhD
Website:
Email:
cmv148@miami.edu
Advisor:
Paul Sikkel
Research Topic:
Sensory ecology
of marine invertebrates
Research Keywords:
parasites, chemical ecology,
host-finding, settlement, invertebrate ecology
Zhang, Wenlong
Name:
Wenlong Zhang
Program / Degree:
Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD
Email:
wxz296@miami.edu
Advisor:
Dr. Martin Grosell
Research Topic:
Environmental effects on invertebrate calcification
Research Keywords:
Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Physiology, Proteomic analysis
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Marine Geosciences
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Agobian, Jorge
Name:
Jorge Agobian
Program / Degree:
Marine Geosciences / PhD
Website:
Email:
jagobian@rsmas.miami.edu
Advisor:
Dr. Keir Becker
Research Topic:
Hydrothermal circulation in spreading centers: fluid
recharge vs. discharge @ edges of abyssal hills
Research Keywords:
hydrothermal circulation, fluid discharge, fluid recharge,
abyssal hills, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, North Pond
Appiah, Nicholas
Name:
Nicholas Appiah
Program / Degree:
Marine Geosciences / PhD
Website:
Email:
njappiah@earth.miami.edu
Advisor:
Sam Goldberg
Research Topic:
Quantifying hydrological drivers
of landscape and ecosystem changes
Research Keywords:
hydrogeology, remote sensing,
machine learning,landscape evolution, everglades
Beleznay, Flora
Name:
Flora
Beleznay
Program / Degree:
Marine Geosciences / PhD
Website:
Email:
fxb522@miami.edu
Advisor:
Sam Purkis
Gregor Eberli
Research Topic:
Spatial Self-Organization in
Modern Reefs and Reefal Carbonates
Research Keywords:
Reaction-diffusion modeling,
Turing patterns, spatial self-organization,
activator-inhibitor systems, machine learning
Chakraborty, Morgan
Name:
Morgan Chakraborty
Program / Degree:
Marine Geosciences / PhD
Email:
morgan.chakraborty@earth.miami.edu
Advisor:
Sam Purkis
Research Topic:
I use deep-sea samples to
reconstruct past ocean chemistry and climate variability.
Research Keywords:
Geochemistry, paleoclimatology,
deep sea fossil corals, extremophile microbes,
uranium-series isotopes
Di Silvestro, Giacomo
Name:
Giacomo Di Silvestro
Program / Degree:
Marine Geosciences / PhD
Email:
gxd593@miami.edu
Advisor:
Falk Amelung
Research Topic:
Earthquake dynamic triggering of magmatic unrest
Research Keywords:
Volcanism, Earthquake triggering, Insar
Guo, Zonglin
Name:
Zonglin Guo
Program / Degree:
Marine Geosciences / PhD
Email:
zxg348@miami.edu
Advisor:
Adam Holt
Research Topic:
The effect of double subduction on plate motions
Research Keywords:
geodynamics, numerical modelling, subduction zones, double subduction system, subduction kinematics
Ling, Anna
Name:
Anna Ling
Program / Degree:
Marine Geology and Geophysics / PhD
Website:
alingrsmas.wordpress.com
Email:
a.ling@rsmas.miami.edu
Advisor:
Gregor Eberli
Research Topic:
Influence of Ocean Currents on Carbonate Platform Drowning
Research Keywords:
Ocean Currents, Nutrients, Carbonate, Platform Drowning,
Phosphorus, Nitrogen, Microfacies
Longnecker, Jake
Name:
Jake Longnecker
Program / Degree:
Marine Geosciences / PhD
Website:
Email:
jake.longenecker@miami.edu
Advisor:
Arthur Gleason
Research Topic:
Marine Thermals & Remote Sensing
Research Keywords:
Satellites, Thermal, Coral,
GIS, Modelling, Python
Pehlivanlı, Mustafa Emirhan
Name:
Mustafa Emirhan
Pehlivanlı
Program / Degree:
Marine Geosciences / PhD
Email:
epehlivanli@earth.miami.edu
Advisor:
Falk C Amelung
Research Topic:
Surface deformation
monitoring using InSAR application
Research Keywords:
Remote Sensing, Time series,
InSAR, Deformation Monitoring
Pollier, Clément G.L.
Name:
Clément G.L. Pollier
Program / Degree:
Marine Geosciences / PhD
Website:
Email:
cxp2751@miami.edu
Advisor:
Amanda Oehlert
Research Topic:
Geochemical biosignatures
in microbial deposits
Research Keywords:
Organosediments, Biosignature,
Stable isotopes, Arsenic, Extreme environment
Sam, Cameron
Name:
Cameron Sam
Program / Degree:
Marine Geosciences / PhD
Email:
cxs1471@miami.edu
Advisor:
Amanda Oehlert
Research Topic:
The fractionation of stable isotopes in fish-produced carbonates
Research Keywords:
ichthyocarbonate, stable isotopes, carbon-13, carbon cycle,
fractionation
Vinarski, Elizabeth
Name:
Elizabeth Vinarski
Program / Degree:
Marine Geology and Geophysics / PhD
Email:
elizabeth.vinarski@earth.miami.edu
Advisor:
Dr. Guoqing Lin
Website:
Research Topic:
Seismic full waveform inversion imaging of dense
nodal array on Kilauea Volcano
Research Keywords:
seismology, volcanology, tomography,
full waveform inversion, ambient noise interferometry
Wang, Yidan
Name:
Yidan Wang
Program / Degree:
Marine Geosciences / PhD
Email:
yxw1395@miami.edu
Advisor:
Guoqing Lin
Research Topic:
Imaging Seismogenic Architecture and
Dynamics Through Tomography,
Sequences, and Machine Learning
Research Keywords:
Seismology, Tomography,
Subduction zone, Earthquake relocation, Machine learning
Zhao, Shuying
Name:
Shuying Zhao
Program / Degree:
Marine Geosciences / PhD
Email:
txz386@miami.edu
Advisor:
Adam Holt
Research Topic:
Use geodynamic models to understand subduction zone dynamics
Research Keywords:
subduction zone, mantle flow, earthquake, geodynamic modelling
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Meteorology and Physical Oceanography
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Dai, Hanjing
Name:
Hanjing Dai
Program / Degree:
Applied Marine Physics
Email:
hxd146@miami.edu
Advisor:
Brian Haus
Research Topic:
Spatial and temporal measurements
of ocean surface waves using Shape from Polarization (SfP)
Research Keywords:
Ocean surface waves,
Shape from Polarization (SfP), Ocean optics,
Computer version, Directional wave spectrum,
Wind stress, Air-sea coupling
Ephraim, Samuel
Name:
Samuel Ephraim
Program / Degree:
Atmospheric Sciences / PhD
Email:
soe10@miami.edu
Advisor:
Paquita Zuidema
Research Topic:
Cold air outbreaks
Research Keywords:
Meteorology, clouds, arctic, dynamics,
microphysics, boundary layer, ice, snow
Kiszka, Jackie
Name:
Jackie Kiszka
Program / Degree:
Meterorology &
Physical Oceanography / PhD
Email:
jkiszka@earth.miami.edu
Advisor:
Amy Clement
Research Topic:
Decadal-to-multidecadal climate
variability in global climate models
Research Keywords:
Global climate modeling,
Climate variability and change,
Climate dynamics, Signal-to-noise problem
Odhiambo, Niko
Name:
Niko
Odhiambo
Program / Degree:
Meterorology &
Physical Oceanography / PhD
Email:
lxo335@miami.edu
Advisor:
Lisa Beal
Research Topic:
Changes in heat transport into the
Southern Ocean due to variability in the Agulhas Return Current
Research Keywords:
physical oceanography,
Agulhas Return Current, mesoscale eddies, poleward heat flux
Pita, Ivenis
Name:
Ivenis Pita
Program / Degree:
Meteorology and
Physical Oceanography / PhD
Website:
Email:
ivenis.pita@rsmas.miami.edu
Advisor:
Dr. Gustavo Goni (NOAA AOML),
and
Dr. Benjamin Kirtman
(UM)
Research Topic:
Influence of Western Boundary Currents
on Coastal Sea Level
Research Keywords:
Sea Level, Coastal Variability, Brazil Current,
Hydrography, Physical Oceanography
Samantaray, Snigdha
Name:
Snigdha Samantaray
Program / Degree:
Meteorology and
Physical Oceanography / PhD
Website:
Email:
sxs3853@miami.edu
Advisor:
Brian Mapes
Research Topic:
Water Vapor Lakes in Western Equatorial Indian Ocean
Research Keywords:
Tropical Meteorology, Cloud and Convection Processes
Sampson, Rachel
Name:
Rachel Sampson
Program / Degree:
Meteorology and
Physical Oceanography / PhD
Email:
ras482@miami.edu
Advisor:
Lisa Beal
Research Topic:
Estimating horizontal
mixing andeddy heat/salt fluxes in the Cape Basin
Research Keywords:
Agulhas Current, Mixing,
Physical Oceanography, Lateral Diffusivity, Eddy fluxes
Xia, Junfei
Name:
Junfei Xia
Program / Degree:
Meteorology and
Physical Oceanography / PhD
Website:
Email:
junfei.xia@rsmas.miami.edu
Advisor:
Dr. Tamay M Ozgokmen
Research Topic:
ML and DL applications in physical oceanography:
interpolation and classification
Research Keywords:
Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Drifter data;
SAR image classification; Dynamic Systems;
Submesoscale ocean motion
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Cartwright, Paloma
Name:
Paloma Cartwright
Program / Degree:
Ocean Sciences / PhD
Email:
pmc145@miami.edu
Advisor:
Lisa Beal
Research Topic:
The Florida Current and
its connection to coastal sea level
Research Keywords:
sea level, ocean dynamics,
Florida Current, climate change
Casey, Stephen
Name:
Stephan Casey
Program / Degree:
Ocean Sciences / PhD
Email:
smc617@miami.edu
Advisor:
Milan Curcic
Research Topic:
Multiscale Modeling and Simulation,
Causal Induction, and Optimal Design of Experiments
Research Keywords:
Information Theory,
Turbulence, Reinforcement Learning
Childs, Katia
Name:
Katia Childs
Program / Degree:
Ocean Sciences / PhD
Website:
Email:
katiachilds@miami.edu
Advisor:
Roland Romeiser
Research Topic:
Using satellite mounted Synthetic
Aperture Radar to study the dynamics of
Arctic ice floes over time
Research Keywords:
SAR, Satellite, Arctic, Ice Floe,
Image Processing, Remote Sensing, CSTARS
Cohn, Rachel
Name:
Rachel Cohn
Program / Degree:
Ocean Sciences / MS
Email:
rxc1304@miami.edu
Advisor:
Mariana Bernardi Bif
Research Topic:
Primary Productivity in the North Atlantic
Research Keywords:
primary production, biogeochemistry, observational oceanography, oxygen cycles
Dawson, Madeleine
Name:
Madeleine Dawson
Program / Degree:
Ocean Sciences / PhD
Email:
madeleine.dawson@rsmas.miami.edu
Website:
Advisor:
Hans Graber
Research Topic:
Machine Learning Sea
Ice Feature Extraction and Characterization from
Synthetic Aperture Radar Image
Research Keywords:
Remote Sensing, SAR,
Synthetic Aperture Radar, Machine Learning
DeWater, Katelyn
Name:
Katelyn
DeWater
Program / Degree:
Ocean Sciences / PhD
Email:
kdewater@miami.edu
Advisor:
Hans Graber
Research Topic:
Quantification and analysis of
sea ice using stereo and SAR imagery
Research Keywords:
Remote sensing, SAR,
stereoscopic, sea ice
Freisen, Jason
Name:
Jason Freisen
Program / Degree:
Ocean Sciences / PhD
Email:
jaf3457@miami.edu
Advisor:
Hilary Close
Research Topic:
Isotopic indicators of marine
organic matter production, cycling, and export
Research Keywords:
organic geochemistry,
stable isotopes, biogeochemical cycling,
marine microbial communities,
euphotic zone, oligotrophic gyres
Glynn, Sabrina
Name:
Sabrina Glynn
Program / Degree:
Ocean Sciences / PhD
Website:
Email:
slu6@miami.edu
Advisor:
Kim Popendorf
Research Topic:
Carbon and energy (ATP) flow through
the ocean; who and what controls the transfer of energy?
Research Keywords:
Marine Microbes; Biogeochemistry;
Carbon; Energy / ATP; Particulate Material; Phytoplankton
Harrison, Susan
Name:
Susan Harrison
Program / Degree:
Ocean Sciences / PhD
Email:
sxh3244@miami.edu
Advisor:
Milan Curcic
Research Topic:
Air-sea interaction
Research Keywords:
coastal drag, air-sea momentum flux,
wind-wave interactions, coupled models,
ag parameterization, land-air-sea interaction,
coastal transition zone
Jeng, Dailen
Name:
Jeng Dailen
Program / Degree:
Ocean Sciences / PhD
Email:
dlj73@miami.edu
Advisor:
Hilary Close
Research Topic:
Chemical characterization
of marine particulate organic matter
Research Keywords:
Organic Geochemistry, Isotopes,
Biogeochemistry, Mass spectrometry, Particulate organic matter
Lamoonkit, Jomphol
Name:
Jomphol
Lamoonkit
Program / Degree:
Ocean Sciences / PhD
Email:
jxl3645@miami.edu
Advisor:
Mariana Bif
Research Topic:
Biogeochemical cycles
in the Oxygen Minimum Zones
Research Keywords:
Instrumentation developments,
Biogeochemical cycles, Observational oceanography,
BGC ARGO floats, Engineering
Medina, Samantha
Name:
Samantha Medina
Program / Degree:
Ocean Sciences / PhD
Website:
www.linkedin.com/in/medinaxsamantha
Email:
sxm1287@miami.edu
Advisor:
Brian Haus
Research Topic:
Growth and Decay of Wind
Driven Waves in Coastal Zones
Research Keywords:
coastal physics, wave dynamics,
air-sea interaction, wind driven waves, directional wave spectra
Ricche, Gabrielle
Name:
Gabrielle Ricche
Program / Degree:
Applied Marine Physics / PhD
Email:
gxr544@miami.edu
Advisor:
Hans Graber
Research Topic:
Detection and quantification
of icebergs and their response to wind and currents
using SAR imagery
Research Keywords:
remote sensing, icebergs,
physical oceanography, climate, machine learning
Rosing, Trina
Name:
Trina Rosing
Program / Degree:
Ocean Sciences / MS
Email:
kmr251@miami.edu
Advisor:
Kim Popendorf
Research Topic:
Microbiome of corals using eDNA
Research Keywords:
eDNA, coral microbiome
Scharle, Phoebe
Name:
Phoebe Scharle
Program / Degree:
Ocean Sciences / PhD
Email:
pxs1137@miami.edu
Advisor:
Cassandra Gaston
Research Topic:
Air-sea interactions,
sea spray aerosol, saharan dust deposition
Research Keywords:
Organic Sea spray aerosol,
saharan dust, nutrients, biogeochemical cycling,
chemical oceanography, atmospheric chemistry
Simi, Katie
Name:
Katie Simi
Program / Degree:
Ocean Sciences
/ PhD
Email:
kls276@miami.edu
Advisor:
Brian Haus
Research Topic:
Wave energy dissipation induced
by submerged porous breakwaters
Research Keywords:
Coastal resilience, Coastal Engineering,
Hydrodynamics, Turbulence, Nature Based Engineering
Tan, Peisen
Name:
Peisen Tan
Program / Degree:
Ocean Sciences / PhD
Email:
peisen.tan@rsmas.miami.edu
Advisor:
Brian Haus
Research Topic:
Air-sea interaction and momentum transfer
Research Keywords:
Air-Sea Interaction, Waves,
Coastal Resilience, Physical Oceanography,
Experimental Physics
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