Name: Marybeth Arcodia Program/Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Email: marcodia@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Ben Kirtman Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Climate Variability and Predictability
Intraseasonal, tropical, variability, teleconnections, tropical-extratropical interactions
Name: Anne Barkley Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Email: abarkley@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Cassandra Gaston Research Topic: Research Keywords:
My work focuses on analyzing aerosols collected in Cayenne, French Guiana.
physiochemical properties of aerosols, nutrient deposition, dust, biomass
burning, aerosol-cloud interactions, mass spectrometry, climate
Name: Kayla Besong Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Email: kab226@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Ben Kirtman Research Topic: Atmospheric Blocking Research Keywords: Blocking, variability, teleconnections, predictability, subseasonal
Name: Amie Dobracki Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Email: aad59@miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Paquita Zuidema Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Chemical, Physical, and Optical Properties of Aged African Biomass Burning
Biomass burning, Aerosols, Organic Aerosol, Smoke, Aerosol Mass Spectrometer
Name: Tyler Fenske Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Website: tfenske.weebly.com (currently a work-in-progress) Email: tyler.fenske@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Amy Clement Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Climate Variability in the North Pacific
Climate, Climate Change, Internal Climate Variability, North Pacific
Name: Kurt Hansen Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Email: kah52@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Sharan Majumdar Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Sub-seasonal Tropical Cyclone
Hurricane, Tropical Cyclone, Sub-seasonal, Interseasonal, SUBX, Prediction
Name: Haozhe He Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Email: haozhe.he@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Brian Soden Research Topic: Research Keywords:
To explore the large-scale dynamical responses of clouds to different radiative forcing agents.
Climate sensitivity, cloud feedback
Name: Quinton Lawton Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Email: quinton.lawton@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Sharan Majumdar Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Predictability of Tropical Cyclogenesis
tropical cyclones, hurricanes, tropical cyclogenesis, predictability, African easterly waves, kelvin waves
Name: Kelsey Malloy Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Email: kelsey.malloy@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Ben Kirtman Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Predictability of warm-season extreme precipitation from southerly low-level jets
climate variability, extreme weather, precipitation, subseasonal prediction, seasonal prediction
Name: Papazian, Karen Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Email: karen.papazian@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Ben Kirtman Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Climate Variability and Predictability
Variability, Climate, Intraseasonal
Name: Sara Purdue Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Email: s.purdue@umiami.edu Advisor: Dr. Paquita Zuidema Research Topic: Cloud-Aerosol Interactions Research Keywords: Semi-Direct Effect, Aerosols, Clouds
Name: Haley Royer Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Email: hmr76@miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Cassandra Gaston Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Atmospheric aerosols and their affects on ecosystems, human health & atmospheric chemical reactions
atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, dust, algal blooms, algal toxins, playa dust, heterogeneous chemistry
Name: Mampi Sarkar Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Email: mampi.sarkar@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Paquita Zuidema Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Stratocumulus to cumulus transition in the North Pacific Ocean
Stratocumulus, cumulus, clouds, boundary layer, precipitation, radar, satellite, CSET, remote sensing
Name: Wei-Ming Tsai Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Website: https://sites.google.com/view/muse-of-clouds/home Email: wxt108@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Brian Mapes Research Topic: Research Keywords:
tropical convective organization and its responses to moisture variability
Organized convection, Water vapor, cloud-environment interactions, tropical meteorology,
cumulus parameterization
Name: Bosong Zhang Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Email: bxz125@miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Brian Soden Research Topic: Research Keywords:
How Radiative Feedbacks Affect Convective Aggregation
Radiative feedbacks, convective aggregation, climate projections
Name: Anthony Bonacolta Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Website: https://twitter.com/AMBonacolta Email: anthony.bonacolta@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Javier del Campo Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Microbial Ecology
Marine Microbial Ecology, Microbiology, Metagenomics
Name: Daisy Buzzoni Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / MS Email: daisy.buzzoni@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Andrew Baker Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Transplanting stress-hardened tissue onto wild massive coral colonies & assessing symbiont spread
reef resilience, coral bleaching, stress-hardening, re-skinning, symbiont shuffling
Name: Michael T. Connelly Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Email: mconnelly@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Nikki Traylor-Knowles Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Coral immunology, host-microbe interactions and diseases
Coral reefs, genomics, innate immunity, symbioses, conservation
Name: Amanda DeLiberto Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Email: amanda.deliberto@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Douglas Crawford Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Evolutionary patterns of Northern Fundulus heteroclitus populations
Fundulus heteroclitus, genomics, rapid evolution, population genetics, physiology
Name: Allyson DeMerlis Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Website: https://twitter.com/allydemerlis Email: allyson.demerlis@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Nikki Traylor-Knowles Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Molecular mechanisms of coral resilience to environmental stress
and resistance to disease
Molecular biology, reef restoration, genomics, coral disease
Name: LaTreese Denson Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Fisheries / PhD Website: latreesedenson.com/ Email: ldenson@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Babcock Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Environmental effects on population dynamics, spatially and temporally,
and fisheries management
Stock assessment, population dynamics, recruitment, spatial structure,
fisheries management, Stock Synthesis
Name: Caroline Dennison Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Email: ldenson@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Andrew Baker Research Topic: The role symbionts play in disease susceptibility Research Keywords: Coral, Genetics, Symbiont Dynamics
Name: Melissa Drown Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Email: melissa.drown@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Douglas Crawford Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Adaptation and acclimation to thermal stress in marine teleost fish.
genomics, genetics, evolution, adaptation
Name: Moritz Ehrlich Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Email: moritz.ehrlich@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Marjorie Oleksiak Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Polygenic adaptation to microhabitats in Fundulus heteroclitus
Genomics, Evolutionary Biology, Molecular Ecology, Population Genetics, Physiology
Name: LeeAnn Frank Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Email: leeann.frank@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Martin Grosell Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Metabolic cost of osmoregulation in teleost fish<
Osmoregulation, metabolism, teleost, fish physiology, toadfish, environmental physiology
Name: Khadija Haider Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Email: khadija.haider@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Chris Langdon Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Identification of resistant corals and resistant genes to cope with the ocean acidification
Coral Reefs, Climate Change, Ocean Acidification
Name: Kelsey Johnson-Sapp Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Website: linkedin.com/in/kelsey-johnson-sapp-960b5a75/ Email: kej31@miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Andrew Baker Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Leveraging natural genetic dynamics to enhance coral restoration strategies
Coral, Coral Reef, Coral Restoration, Coral Ecology, Coral Genetics
Name: Richard Karp Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Email: rkarp@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Andrew Baker Research Topic: Coral resilience and adaptation Research Keywords:
Coral, genetics, transcriptomics, stress hardening, stress tolerance,
symbiont communities
Name: Madeline Kaufman Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / MS Website: maddiekaufman.com Email: madeline.kaufman@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Diego Lirman Research Topic: Coral restoration genetics Research Keywords: coral, restoration, genetics, genomics
Name: Nicholas Kron Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Email: nkron@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Lynne Fieber Research Topic: Aging in Aplysia californica Sensory Neurons Research Keywords: Aging, RNAseq, neuroscience, transcriptomics, RNAi
Name: Emily (Milly) Milton Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / MS Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-milton/ Email: EMM248@MIAMI.EDU Advisor: Dr. Danielle McDonald Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Teleost stress physiology and ecotoxicology
Stress, physiology, ecotoxicology, oil spill, Gulf Toadfish, teleost
Name: Emma Pontes Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-pontes-97b492141/ Email: e.pontes1@umiami.edu Advisor: Dr. Chris Langdon Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Examining the long term effects of ocean acidifcation on coral physiology and ecology
coral reef, ecology, ocean acidification, ocean chemistry, coral bleaching,
resistance, resilience, Acropora cervicornis
Name: Eric Randolph Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Email: eric.randolph@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Lynne Fieber Research Keywords: Aplysia, learning, teneurin
Name: Nicolas Rivas Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / MS Website: www.nico-rivas.com Email: nicolas.rivas@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Diego Lirman Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Increasing success of massive coral gardening and restoration
Coral, coral restoration, outplanting, citizen science, coral reef, conservation
Name: Elana Rusnak Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / MS Website: sharkresearch.rsmas.miami.edu Email: elana.rusnak@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Liza Merly, and Dr. Neil Hammerschlag Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Isolation and characterization of acute phase reactants in the nurse shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum
shark immunology, acute phase proteins, wild shark health
Name: Marissa Rykowski Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Email: m.rykowski@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Beth Babcock Research Topic: My project focuses on population dynamics and sea turtle ecology. Research Keywords: Population dynamics, sea turtles, ecology
Name: Lela Schlenker Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Email: lschlenker@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Martin Grosell Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Olfaction and behavior of marine fishes exposed to crude oil
Fish physiology, olfaction, behavior, pelagic fish
Name: John Sebastiani Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Email: jts199@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Danielle McDonald Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Serotonin clearance and uptake mechanisms in vertebrates, serotonin as a hormone, hypoxia response
serotonin, 5-HT, toadfish, vertebrate physiology, pharmacology, hypoxia response
Name: Ryan Sirota Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / MS Website: website link Email: rsirota@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Diego Lirman Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Evaluating the influence of seagrass structure and salinity on epifauna recruitment
seagrass, epifauna, biscayne bay, salinity, Thalassia testudinum, Halodule wrightii
Name: Grace Snyder Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Email: grace.snyder@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Nikki Traylor-Knowles Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Coral and other Cnidarian Cell Biology and genetics
Coral, immunity, cell, stem cells, transcriptomic, microbiome
Name: Joe Unsworth Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / MS Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thejoeuns/ Email: joseph.unsworth@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Diego Lirman Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Enhancing coral restoration efficiency and success
coral reef, coral restoration, outplanting, genetic diversity,
citizen science
Name: Yadong Wang Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Fisheries / PhD Email: yadong.wang@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Martin Grosell Research Topic: Ammonia and urea handling in developing fish Research Keywords: Crude oil, fish physiology, molecular biology, Mahi-mahi, zebrafish
Name: Bradley Weiler Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Email: bweiler@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Javier del Campo Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Marine microbiomes and coral disease
microbiome, pathobiome, coral, next-generation sequencing,
culturing, SSU rRNA
Name: Olivia (Liv) Williamson Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Website: livwilliamson.com/ Email: omw10@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Andrew Baker Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Enhancing resilience of Caribbean coral juveniles through manipulation of early symbiont communities
coral reef, symbiosis, coral restoration, assisted evolution, resilience, climate change,
coral bleaching, coral recruitment
Name: Adrianne Wilson Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Email: adrianne.wilson@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Babcock Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Age and Growth of Lane Snapper
Fish Population Structure, Quantitative Fisheries Ecology, Age and Growth, Stock Assessment,
Ecosystem Based Management
Name: Benjamin Young Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Email: benjamin.young@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Nikki Traylor-Knowles Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Genetic and microbial disease resistance and disease
dynamics in Acropora palmata
Disease, disease resistance, coral, transcriptomics,
metagenomics, acropora palmata
Name: Patricia Albano Program / Degree: Marine Ecosystems and Society / MS Email: p.albano@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Neil Hammerschlag Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Evaluating the efficacy of a marine reserve for threatened sharks off South Africa
sharks, marine reserve, threatened, MPA, elasmobranchs, South Africa
Name: Alexandra Anstett Program / Degree: Marine Ecosystems and Society / MS Email: alexandra.anstett@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Neil Hammerschlag Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Evaluating shark health between nursery sites in the Galapagos Islands
Shark, Health, Physiology, Body Condition, Galapagos, Nursery
Name: Chelsea Black Program / Degree: Marine Ecosystems and Society / MS Email: chelsea.black@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Neil Hammerschlag Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Investigating the microbiome of three shark species in Biscayne Bay, Florida
sharks, microbiome, microbiology, bacteria, disease
Name: Juan Cervera Program / Degree: Marine Ecosystems and Society / MS Email: Jcc328@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. David Die Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Benthic Community of a Restored Mangrove Ecosystem
Mangrove, Restored ecosystem, benthic community
Name: Jia Geng Program / Degree: Marine Ecosystems and Society / PhD Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jia-geng Email: jxg570@miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Daniel Benetti Research Topic: Machine Learning for Aquaculture Research Keywords: Aquaculture, Machine Learning
Name: Alexandra Norelli Program / Degree: Marine Ecosystems and Society / PhD Website: apnorelli.com/ Email: alexandra.norelli@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. David Die Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Tropical Tuna Growth, Abundance, and Migrations
Fisheries, Management, Stock Assessment, Growth, Abundance, Migration, Tropical Tuna, Modeling,
Statistics, Fish
Name: Mitchell Rider Program / Degree: Marine Ecosystems and Society / MS Email: mitchell.rider@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Neil Hammerschlag Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Association between boat activity and shark habitat use
Coastal Sharks, Boat Activity, Habitat Use, Acoustic Telemetry
Name: Matthew Varkony Program / Degree: Marine Ecosystems and Society / PhD Email: mvarkony@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Renato Molina Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Intersection between society and climate change. Specifically distributional impacts of disasters
Income Inequality, Extreme Events, Disasters, Economics, Poverty, Development
Name: Lacey Williams Program / Degree: Marine Ecosystems and Society /MS Email: lacey.williams@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Neil Hammerschlag Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Investigating great white shark & seal predatory interactions in Robberg Reserve, South Africa
sharks, seals, predation, Robberg, South Africa
Name: Jennifer Wright Program / Degree: Marine Ecosystems and Society / MS Website: www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-wright-4a1a34126 Email: jlw195@miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Maria Estevanez Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Assessing the effect of coral presence among mangrove prop roots on mangrove fish communities
mangrove prop roots, reef fish, mangroves as fish habitat, artificial reefs, corals,
mangroves, fish communities
Name: Jorge Agobian Program / Degree: Marine Geosciences / PhD Website: https://jnagobian.wixsite.com/rsmas Email: jagobian@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Keir Becker Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Hydrothermal circulation in spreading centers: fluid recharge vs. discharge
@ edges of abyssal hills
hydrothermal circulation, fluid discharge, fluid recharge, abyssal hills, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, North Pond
Name: Farzaneh Aziz Zanjani Program / Degree: Marine Geosciences / PhD Website: farzanehzanjani.weebly.com Email: fzanjani@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Guoqing Lin Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Global assessment of Double Seismic Zones
Earthquake relocation, tomography, Moment tensor inversion,
Double Seismic Zones, Subduction zone
Name: Anna Bakker Program / Degree: Marine Geosciences / PhD Email: annabakker@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Sam Purkis Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Remote sensing of coral reefs
remote sensing; coral reefs; spatial maps; resilience index
Name: Sara Bashah Program / Degree: Marine Geosciences / PhD Website: https://sarabashah87.wixsite.com/carbonate Email: nbashah@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Gregor Eberli Research Topic: Research Keywords:
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF OCEAN CURRENTS IN CARBONATE DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS
Seismic Stratigraphy, Ocean Currents, Carbonate Drifts, Florida Current, Marion Plateau, Maldives
Name: Colleen Brown Program / Degree: Marine Geosciences / PhD Email: kgalvez@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Amanda Oehlert Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Bridging paleoclimate to current and future climate predictors using stable isotopes in carbonates
Carbonates, diagenesis, isotopic fractionation, paleoclimate
Name: Kimberly C. Galvez Program / Degree: Marine Geology and Geophysics / PhD Website: https://kimberlygalvez.weebly.com Email: kgalvez@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Gregor Eberli Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Distribution and Growth Patterns of Cold-water Corals in the Straits of Florida
Cold-water corals, Straits of Florida, sediment, corals, benthic, Pleistocene, Holocene, deep-sea corals
Name: Emma Giddens Program / Degree: Marine Geosciences / PhD Website: www.linkedin.com/in/emma-giddens-b3460295 Email: egiddens@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Gregor Eberli Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Petrophysical Characteristics of Carbonate Drift Deposits
Drift deposits, petrophysics, porosity, permeability, velocity, resistivity
Name: Tianshu Kong Program / Degree: Marine Geosciences / MS Email: tianshu.kong@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Amanda Oehlert Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Evaluating spatial heterogeneity and vertical stratification of hypersaline brine pools in Chile
Geochemistry, Geobiology, Paleoclimate, Microbial ecology, Mars-analogue system
Name: Anna Ling Program / Degree: Marine Geology and Geophysics / PhD Website: alingrsmas.wordpress.com Email: a.ling@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Gregor Eberli Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Influence of Ocean Currents on Carbonate Platform Drowning
Ocean Currents, Nutrients, Carbonate, Platform Drowning, Phosphorus,
Nitrogen, Microfacies
Name: Cecilia Lopez-Gamundi Program / Degree: Marine Geosciences / PhD Email: Cecilia.Lopez-Gamundi@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Sam Purkis Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Sediment budget and hydrodynamics of the Great Bahama Bank
Carbonate sedimentology, sediment transport, hydrodynamics, Great Bahama Bank,
remote sensing
Name: Qianyun Lu Program / Degree: Marine Geology and Geophysics / PhD Website: https://qianyunlu.weebly.com/ Email: qlu@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Falk Amelung Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Temporal variations of deglaciation-induced bedrock displacement at the Greenland ice sheet margin
InSAR, GPS, Time-series, Ice Mass Balance, Greenland
Name: Evan Moore Program / Degree: Marine Geosciences / PhD Email: evan.moore@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Peter Swart Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Unconventional stable isotopes on carbonate sediment deposits, sulfate reduction, paleotemperatures
Isotopes, sulfur, boron, paleotemperatures, CO2, limestone, pore water
Name: Sara Mirzaee Program / Degree: Marine Geosciences / PhD Website: https://saramirzaee.weebly.com Email: sara.mirzaee@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Falk Amelung Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Interferometric SAR Techniques and Applications
Geodesy, InSAR, Volcano, Modelling, Data Mining
Name: Megan Smith Program / Degree: Marine Geosciences / PhD Email: megan.smith@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Peter Swart Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Using clumped & stable isotopes of carbonates to determine diagenesis & paleoenvironment conditions
Clumped Isotopes, Stable Isotopes, Carbonates, Diagenesis, Concretions, Modern Sediments, Sediment Cores
Name: Bhuvan Varugu Program / Degree: Marine Geosciences / PhD Website: bhuvankumaru.wordpress.com/ Email: bvarugu@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Falk Amelung Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Application of Space Geodesy for Volcanoes and Earthquakes
InSAR, Hawaiian Volcanoes, Geophysical modelling
Name: Brooke Vitek Program / Degree: Marine Geology and Geophysics / PhD Email: brooke.vitek@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. R. Pamela Reid Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Multiscale Morphogenesis of Hamelin Pool Stromatolites
Stromatolites, geobiology, petrography, remote sensing, morphometric analysis
Name: Mingyue Wu Program / Degree: Marine Geosciences / PhD Email: mxw752@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Sam Purkis Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Compare and contrast the coastline dynamics of natrual atoll islands
Atoll island, Peros Banhos, Indian Ocean
Name: Yunjun Zhang Program / Degree: Marine Geology and Geophysics / PhD Website: https://yunjunzhang.wordpress.com/ Email: yzhang@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Falk Amelung Research Topic: Research Keywords:
InSAR time-series technique and its application to volcanoes in Ecuador and Japan
InSAR, Time-series, Geodesy, Volcano, Geophysics
Name: Simge Bilgen Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Email: sbilgen@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Benjamin Kirtman Research Topic: Research Keywords:
The Role of Ocean Eddies in the Southern Ocean Response to Greenhouse Gas Forcing
Coupled Modeling, Air-Sea Interaction, Southern Ocean
Name: Tiago Carrilho Bilo Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Website: http://tiagobilo.github.io/ Email: tcb46@miami.edu Advisor: Dr. William Johns Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Large Scale ocean circulation and dynamics
Boundary Currents, Deep Ocean Circulation, Deep recirculation, Meridional Overturning circulation
Name: Leah Chomiak Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Email: leah.chomiak@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Denis Volkov (NOAA AOML), and Dr. Benjamin Kirtman (UM) Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Large-Scale Ocean Circulation, Repeat Hydrography, Ocean-Atmosphere Climate Dynamics
Circulation, Hydrography, Oceanography, Physical, Climate, Climate change
Name: Rebecca Evans Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Website: rebeccacevans.com Email: rebecca.evans@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. David Nolan Research Topic: Internal Inertia-Gravity Waves in Tropical Cyclones Research Keywords: Hurricanes, tropical cyclones, gravity waves, dynamics, convection
Name: Ryder Fox Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Website: kryderfox.com Email: krf44@miami.edu Advisor: Dr. David Nolan Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Microphysical impacts to deep convection
Microphysics, Hurricanes, Radar Observations, Numerical Weather Modeling, WRF
Name: Yu Gao Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Email: ygao@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Igor Kamenkovich Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Mesoscale air-sea interactions, using both regional and global high-resolution numerical models.
air-sea interaction, mesoscale circulation, numerical models, climate change
Name: Jimmy Ge Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Email: jimmy.ge@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. David Nolan Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Relative humidity evolution during tropical cyclogenesis
Hurricanes, tropical cyclogenesis, relative humidity, satellite meteorology,
remote sensing
Name: Matthew Grossi Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Email: matthew.grossi@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Tamay Ozgokmen Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Applying machine learning techniques to observational ocean data
ocean observation, field campaigns, ocean modeling, oceanic transport, machine learning,
neural networks, data exploration
Name: Luna Hiron Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Email: lhiron@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Lynn "Nick" Shay Research Topic: Research Keywords:
MDynamics of the Loop Current and associated frontal eddies in the Gulf of Mexico
Loop Current, Loop Current Frontal Eddies, mesoscale oceanography, eddy intensification,
ocean dynamics, Gulf of Mexico
Name: James Hlywiak Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Website: https://jameshlywiak.github.io/ Email: jhlywiak@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. David Nolan Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Hurricane Surface and Boundary Layer Physics
Hurricanes, Boundary Layer, Air-Sea Interactions, Oceanic Barrier Layers,
Numerical Modelling
Name: Chong Jia Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / MS Email: chong.jia@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Peter J Minnett Research Topic: Improved Satellite Remote Sensing of Sea Surface Temperature at High Latitude Research Keywords: Satellite Remote Sensing, SST, Algorithm, Arctic
Name: Jeremy Klavans Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / MS Website: https://jklavans.github.io/jklavans/ Email: jklavans@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Amy Clement Research Topic: North Atlantic Climate Variability Research Keywords: Climate, Climate Variability, Climate Change, Climate Modeling
Name: Greg Koman Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Website: gregkoman.com/ Email: gkoman@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. William Johns Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Transport and Variability in the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre
North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre, Iceland Basin, East Reykjanes Ridge Current, Irminger Current,
East Greenland Current, West Greenland Current, Labrador Current, Iceland Scotland Overflow Water,
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, Seasonal Variability
Name: Samantha Kramer Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Email: skramer@rsmas.miami.edu Advisors: Dr. Benjamin Kirtman and Dr. Paquita Zuidema Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Variability of Saharan dust transport to Miami, FL.
Saharan Dust, Seasonal Variability, Atmosphere, Tropical Atlantic Wind
Name: John Lodise Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Email: jlodise@rsmas.miami.edu Advisors: Dr. Tamay Ozgokmen Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Surface transport problems with a focus on wind-driven currents and submesoscale structures
Surface Currents, Lagrangian Drifters, Observational Data, Air-Sea Interactions,
Submesoscale Structures, Kinematics
Name: Bingkun Luo Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Email: LBK@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Peter Minnett Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Satellite Remote Sensing
Satellite Remote Sensing, Sea Surface Temperature
Name: Yueyang Lu Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Email: yueyang.lu@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Igor Kamenkovich Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Properties and mechanisms of eddy-induced transport in oceanic tracer distribution.
Oceanic eddies, material transport, numerical models
Name: K McMonigal Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Website: http://kmcmonigal.com/ Email: kmcmonigal@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Lisa Beal Research Topic: Research Keywords:
South Indian Ocean heat transport
Large scale oceanography, observations, heat transport, South Indian Ocean, Argo
Name: Nektaria Ntaganou Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Email: nntaganou@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Vassiliki Kourafalou Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Role of mesocale eddies in the Gulf of Mexico/Loop Current System variability
LC system, LCFEs, WFAs, HYCOM, topographic controls
Name: Ivenis Pita Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Email: ivenis.pita@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Gustavo Goni (NOAA AOML), and Dr. Benjamin Kirtman (UM) Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Influence of Western Boundary Currents on Coastal Sea Level
Sea Level, Coastal Variability, Brazil Current, Hydrography, Physical Oceanography
Name: Andrew Smith Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Website: https://sustain.rsmas.miami.edu/ Email: andrew.smith@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Brian Haus Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Air-Sea Interaction
Turbulence, Energy exchange, Dissipation, Hurricanes, Waves
Name: Joshua Wadler Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Website: http://iwave.rsmas.miami.edu/~jwadler/ Email: jwadler@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Lynn K. "Nick" Shay Research Topic: Research Keywords:
The Convective and Mesoscale Evolution of Tropical Cyclone Boundary Layer Thermodynamics
hurricanes, air-sea interaction, convection, boundary layer
Name: Shun-Nan Wu Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Website: https://dmcltu.github.io Email: snwu@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Brian Soden Research Topic: Research Keywords:
The prediction of tropical cyclone intensification using satellite measurements and model simulation
Tropical cyclone, Satellite measurements, TC dynamics
Name: Xingchen Yang Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Email: xxy181@miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Mohamed Iskandarani Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Quantifying model output response due to input uncertainties, investigating
Loop Current behavior
Uncertainty Quantification, loop current, loop current eddy
Name: Breanna Zavadoff Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Email: bzavadoff@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Ben Kirtman Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Rossby Wave Breaking and Atmospheric Rivers
Rossby Waves, Rossby Wave Breaking, Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Atmospheric Rivers, Climatology
Name: Rachel Zelinsky Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Email: rsodowsky@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Benjamin Kirtman and Dr. Mohamed Iskandarani Research Topic: Research Keywords:
The Madden Julian Oscillation
MJO, tropical convection, intraseasonal, convective initiation, ocean-atmosphere coupling
Name: Jianhao Zhang Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Website: https://jianhaozhang.weebly.com/ Email: jzhang@miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Paquita Zuidema Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Aerosol semi-direct effect, boundary layer thermodynamics and low cloud adjustments to smoke
Cloud physics, aerosol-cloud-interaction, remote sensing, boundary layer processes
Name: Wei Zhang Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Website: https://weizh.weebly.com Email: wei.zhang@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Ben Kirtman Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Decadal Climate Variability and Predictability
Decadal Variability, Predictability, Climate Modeling, Ocean Dynamics
Name: Joseph Anderson Program / Degree: Ocean Sciences / PhD Email: joseph.anderson@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Hans Graber Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Machine learning applications in radar remote sensing of the ocean
Machine Learning, SAR, Marine Radar, Computer Vision, Object Detection
Name: Samantha Ballard Program / Degree: Applied Marine Physics / PhD Website: samanthaballard.science Email: sballard@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Hans Graber Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Coastal air-sea interaction utilizing remote sensing satellite (SAR) and insitu data
coastal, air sea interaction, synthetic aperature radar, wavelet analysis, atmospheric gravity waves,
kelvin waves, marine atmospheric boundary layer rolls, wind fronts, wind speed, algorithm, waves
Name: Romain Chaput Program / Degree: Ocean Sciences / PhD Email: rchaput@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Mohamed Iskandarani Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Quantifying variability in biophysical models: A study of fish larvae early life behaviors
Dispersal, Connectivity, Biophysical interaction, Fish larvae, Biophysical modeling,
Behavior, Hatching, Uncertainties
Name: Alessandro Cresci Program / Degree: Ocean Sciences / PhD Website: fishlarvae.org/people/alessandro-cresci Email: alessandro.cresci@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Josefina Olascoaga Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Behavior and movement ecology of aquatic animals with focus on their orientation mechanisms.
Fish, Orientation, Behavior, Fish larvae, Magnetic field, Navigation
Name: Hanjing Dai Program / Degree: Applied Marine Physics / PhD Email: hdai@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Brian Haus Research Topic: Wind waves, their generation and propagation on the ocean surface. Research Keywords: Air-sea interaction, Wind waves, Surface oil transport, Gravity-capillary
waves, Ocean surface roughness
Name: Alexis Denton Program / Degree: Applied Marine Physics / PhD Email: adenton@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Hans C. Graber Research Topic: Satellite retrieval of high-resolution sea ice dynamics in the Arctic marginal Research Keywords: Synthetic Aperture Radar, Electro-Optical Imagery, Sea Ice Dynamics,
ice zone
Arctic, Cryospheres
Name: Sang Di Program / Degree: Ocean Sciences / MS Website: Disangrsmas.simplesite.com/ Email: di.sang@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Roland Romeiser Research Topic: Analysis of Atmospheric convection signatures in Sentinel-1 SAR image Research Keywords: SAR images processing, Atmospheric convection signatures
Name: Heather Hunter Program / Degree: Applied Marine Physics / PhD Email: hhunter@miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Hans Graber Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Development of machine learning algorithms for object detection in synthetic aperture radar imagery
Machine Learning, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Object Detection, Satellite Remote Sensing, Image Processing
Name: Kaycie Lanpher Program / Degree: Ocean Sciences / PhD Email: klanpher@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Kim Popendorf Research Topic: Research Keywords:
I research the dynamics between nutrients, microbes, and metabolic energy potential in ocean basins.
Biogeochemical Cycles, Marine Microbes, Metabolic Energy Potential, ATP, Nutrients
Name: Chelsi Lopez Program / Degree: Ocean Sciences / PhD Email: chelsi.lopez@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Dennis Hansell Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Export and variability of dissolved organic carbon and carbon scavenging by hydrothermal iron
Dissolved organic carbon, biogeochemistry, biogeochemical cycles, carbon export, hydrothermal vents,
iron-carbon scavenging
Name: Sanchit Mehta Program / Degree: Ocean Sciences / PhD Email: sxm565@miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Brian Haus Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Air-Sea Interaction Dynamics Under Hurricane Wind Conditions
Air-sea interaction, Sea-spray, drag coefficient, hurricane winds, wave growth
Name: Lisa Nyman Program / Degree: Applied Marine Physics / PhD Email: lnyman@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Roland Romeiser Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Current retrievals and coastal dynamics using Doppler Marine Radar
Currents, Doppler Marine Radar, Coastal, Internal Waves, Underwater Topography, Palau
Name: Glorianne Rivera Santiago Program / Degree: Ocean Sciences / PhD Email: glorianne.rivera@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. William Drennan Research Topic: Research Keywords:
The effects of bubbles and sea spray on oil transport during high wind conditions
Air-sea interaction, air-sea fluxes, bubbles, sea spray, oil transport, waves, turbulence, high winds
Name: Samantha Shawver Program / Degree: Ocean Sciences / PhD Email: s.shawver@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Roland Romeiser and Dr. Hans Graber Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Remote Sensing of Sea Ice in the Arctic utilizing Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Sea Ice, Air-Sea Interaction, Satellite Remote Sensing, Arctic
Name: Mingming Shao Program / Degree: Applied Marine Physics / PhD Email: mshao@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Brian Haus Research Topic: Air-sea interaction near submesoscale fronts; Research Keywords: Submesoscales; air-wave-sea interaction; turbulence;
surface gravity wave - turbulence interaction
Name: Paul Wojtal Program / Degree: Ocean Sciences / PhD Email: paul.wojtal@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Hilary Close Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Amino acid compound specific isotope analysis of organic material in the water column
Nutrient cycling, biogeochemistry, isotopes, nitrogen, carbon, organic matter