Engineers
Keenan Ball
Senior Engineer
Research Interests: Underwater acoustic communication and navigation for UUVs, moored systems, and associated hardware designs.
Group Site: Acoustic Communications Group
Contact: kball@whoi.edu
Will Barnard
Engineer II
Research Interests: Autonomous underwater vehicles, acoustic communications, underwater navigation, real-time signal processing, motor driving.
Contact: william.barnard@whoi.edu
Nick Chaloux
Engineer II
Research Interests: Electro-mechanical design of undersea vehicles, low-cost embedded system and sensor development, underwater acoustics and pressure tolerant electronic design.
Contact: nicholas.chaloux@whoi.edu
Eric Gallimore
Senior Engineer
Research Interests: Unmanned systems, autonomy, sensing, underwater acoustic communication, navigation and networking, embedded hardware and software design.
Group Site: Acoustic Communications Group
Contact: egallimore@whoi.edu
Jason Kapit
Senior Engineer
Research Interests: Mechanical Finite Element Analysis, optics including free space and fiber optic sensing, interferometry, absorption spectroscopy, and developing precision opto-mechanical assemblies, design of deep sea instrument assemblies, ROV systems, housings, platforms, and fluid control systems.
Contact: jkapit@whoi.edu
Thomas Lanagan
Engineer II
Research Interests: Design, assembly, and testing of oceanographic sensors, sensor platforms, unique lab and field research equipment, and other various components for manned, unmanned, and autonomous underwater vehicles.
Contact: tlanagan@whoi.edu
Christopher Lumping
Engineer II
Research Interests: Mechanical Finite Element Analysis, mechanical design of surface buoys, underwater mooring systems/components, AUV/ROV sub-components, E/M terminations, underwater camera frames, housings, and chassis, benthic frames/instrument packages. Development of parametric models using CAD programs for the quantitative customization of ankle-foot orthoses.
Contact: clumping@whoi.edu
Spencer Marquardt
Engineer II
Research Interests: Sensor development, methane sensing, microplastics, software development on the PocketBeagle board.
Contact: spencer.marquardt@whoi.edu
Stephen J. Murray
Engineer I
Research Interests: Acoustic array propagation modeling, signals analysis, mathematical modeling and implementation, environmental sensor design and testing, autonomous and remotely operated vehicle operation.
Contact: smurray@whoi.edu
Jeff O'Brien
Senior Engineer
Research Interests: Design of low-power autonomous logger/controllers with iridium satellite and inductive telemetry for use in harsh polar climates; profiling vehicle controller design and development; low cost, expendable sensors and sensor platforms.
Contact: jkobrien@whoi.edu
Robert Petitt
Senior Engineer
Research Interests: Electrical engineering, low-power electronic systems, seafloor observatories, cable technology, autonomous vehicles, precision temperature measurements, signal processing, electromagnetic induction.
Contact: rpetitt@whoi.edu
Sandipa Singh
Senior Engineer
Research Interests: Underwater acoustic communications; multi-user, multi-access systems; spread spectrum communications techniques; error correction coding.
Group Site: Acoustic Communications Group
Contact: ssingh@whoi.edu
Ben Weiss
Engineer II
Research Interests: Embedded systems design, rapid prototyping/3D printing, robotics for climate change impact mitigation, coral reef rehabilitation, automation in kelp production and aquaculture, acoustics, microcontrollers.
Contact: bweiss@whoi.edu