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Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis
Director, MIT Sea Grant, Doherty Professor of Ocean Science and Engineering Professor of Mechanical & Ocean Engineering Home Phone: 617 253-7131 Personal Email: chrys@mit.edu Interest Areas: autonomous underwater vehicles Website WebsiteDevelopment of technology and systems for advanced autonomous surface and underwater vehicles.
Glenn Flierl
Professor of Oceanography Home Phone: (617) 253-4692 Personal Email: glenn@lake.mit.edu Interest Areas: physical oceanography, eddies Website WebsiteOceanic eddies and their impacts upon the distribution of tracers and on the biology of the sea.
Franz S. Hover
Finmeccanica Career Development Professor in Engineering Home Phone: (617) 253-6762 Personal Email: hover@mit.edu Interest Areas: networking, engineering Website WebsiteDesign methods for complex ocean systems; autonomous inspection of in-water ships; design of ocean networks comprising groups of communicating vehicles as well as fluid and power systems.
Pierre Lermusiaux
Associate Professor in Ocean Utilization Home Phone: (617) 324-5172 Personal Email: pierrel@mit.edu Interest Areas: modeling systems, ocean dynamics Website WebsiteOcean modeling and data assimilation techniques to quantify regional ocean dynamics on multiple scales; new methods for multiscale modeling, uncertainty quantification, data assimilation and the guidance of autonomous vehicles.
Nicolas Makris
Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering Home Phone: (617) 258-6104 Personal Email: makris@mit.edu Interest Areas: engineering, remote sensing Website WebsiteOcean exploration, remote sensing of marine life and geophysical phenomena, census of marine life, ocean acoustics, and hurricane classification.
Heidi Nepf
Professor, Margaret MacVicar Fellow in Civil and Environmental Engineering Home Phone: (617) 253-8622 Personal Email: hmnepf@mit.edu Interest Areas: fluid mechanics, ecology Website WebsitePhysical mechanisms which affect the transport and fate of contaminants and nutrients in surface water systems; wetland hydrodynamics, vegetated flow dynamics, and lake physics.
Thomas Peacock
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Home Phone: (617) 258-0736 Personal Email: tomp@mit.edu Interest Areas: fluid dynamics, stratified flows Website WebsiteLaboratory experiments to obtain insight into all manner of dynamical phenomena, from micro-scale diffusive processes to global-scale oceanic wave fields.
Henrik Schmidt
Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering Home Phone: (617) 253-5727 Personal Email: henrik@mit.edu Interest Areas: engineering, acoustics Website WebsiteArctic and shallow water acoustics; scattering and reverberation due to sea surface and ice roughness; determination of seismic-acoustic propagation and reverberation in ocean environments; and 3-D acoustics in very shallow water.
Lawrence Susskind
Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning; Director, MIT Science Impact Collaborative Home Phone: (617) 253-2026 Personal Email: susskind@mit.edu Interest Areas: Urban and Environmental Planning Website WebsiteTheory and practice of negotiation and dispute resolution, the practice of public engagement in local decision-making, the resolution of science-intensive policy disputes, renewable energy policy, climate change adaptation and the land claims of Indigenous Peoples; many areas of his work relate to ocean and coastal resource management.
Alexandra H. Techet
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering Home Phone: (617) 452-2266 Personal Email: ahtechet@mit.edu Interest Areas: hydrodynamics, engineering Website WebsiteSolving hydrodynamics problems for use by the ocean science and engineering communities through rigorous experimental investigation and imaging.
Michael S. Triantafyllou
William I. Koch Professor of Marine Technology; Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering; Associate Head for Ocean Engineering Home Phone: (617) 253-4335 Personal Email: mistetri@mit.edu Interest Areas: fluid dynamics, biometrics Website WebsitePhysics of flow-sensing in fish and marine mammals; achieving super-maneuverability in ocean vehicles through flow feedback control; development of biometric robots to study the agility of fish and cetaceans.
Dick K.P. Yue
Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering; Director of International Programs Home Phone: (617) 253-6823 Personal Email: yue@mit.edu Interest Areas: fluid mechanics, ocean engineering Website WebsiteMarine fluid mechanics and ocean engineering: problems ranging from coastal and offshore development to understanding the role of oceans in global warming.
