Research Engineers
Megan Carroll
Research Engineer
Research Interests: Mechanical systems design, assembly, and testing for oceanographic applications.
Contact: mcarroll@whoi.edu
Daniel Duffany
Research Engineer
Research Interests: Ocean instrument design including mooring systems, surface buoys and other mechanical systems. Design and operational experience with ocean vehicles. Experience with prototyping and researching new designs. Experience with data acquisition and measuring mechanical quantities with software.
Contact: dduffany@whoi.edu
Alan Gardner
Research Engineer
Research Interests: Primary battery design, precision autonomous timing, autonomous ocean bottom instrumentation, micro-power design, high efficiency power conversion, sensor calibration, OrCAD PCB Designer, C programming for ARM Cortex M and PIC microcontrollers, Python programming.
Contact: agardner@whoi.edu
Eric Hayden
Research Engineer
Research Interests: Mechanical Finite Element Analysis
Contact: ehayden@whoi.edu
Peter Koski
Research Engineer
Research Interests: Development and application of embedded signal processing technology for underwater acoustic communications; electronic hardware/software design for long-term reliability; real-time signal processing techniques; data telemetry for long-life remote moored observatories.
Group Site: Acoustic Communications Group
Contact: pkoski@whoi.edu
Kevin Manganini
Research Engineer
Research Interests: Electromechanical systems and robotics engineering; conceptualization, design, fabrication, field deployment, testing and maintenance of various instrumentation platforms to measure physical, chemical, biological, and geophysical oceanographic data.
Contact: kmanganini@whoi.edu
Jim Partan
Research Engineer
Research Interests: Underwater acoustic communication, navigation, and networks; marine mammal acoustics and behavioral sensing; autonomous vehicles; Arctic acoustics and systems; software engineering for real-time embedded systems; electronics hardware design; signal processing.
Group Site: Acoustic Communications Group
Contact: jpartan@whoi.edu
Nicholas Rypkema
Research Engineer
Research Interests: Micro unmanned underwater vehicles, multi-vehicle operations, underwater navigation, applied acoustics and signal processing for underwater positioning and sensing.
Contact: nrypkema@whoi.edu
Jared Schwartz
Research Engineer
Research Interests: Mechanical Finite Element Analysis
Contact: jschwartz@whoi.edu
Fred Thwaites
Research Engineer
Research Interests: Mechanical design, prototype development, fluid mechanics, fluid-induced vibration, instrumentation, signal processing, estimation and removal of platform motion from measurements.
Contact: fthwaites@whoi.edu
Kaitlyn Tradd
Research Engineer
Research Interests: Design of oceanographic instrumentation and sampling systems, remotely operated and autonomous underwater vehicles and their subsystems, and support equipment for at-sea field research.
Contact: ktradd@whoi.edu