Scientists
Tom W. Bell
Assistant Scientist
Research Interests: Coastal foundation species dynamics, aquaculture, spatial ecology, physiology, remote sensing, unoccupied aerial vehicles, hyperspectral imagery.
Website: http://www.tomwbell.net
Contact: tbell@whoi.edu
Steve Elgar
Senior Scientist
Research Interests: Nearshore processes, ocean waves, nonlinear random processes.
Lab Site: PV Lab
Contact: elgar@whoi.edu
Julia Guimond
Assistant Scientist
Research Interests: Coastal groundwater dynamics, permafrost hydrology, saltwater intrusion, coastal and submarine groundwater-surface water exchange, coastal wetland hydrology, climate change impacts on coastal ecosystems, hydrological-biogeochemical interactions.
Contact: julia.guimond@whoi.edu
Houshuo Jiang
Senior Scientist
Research Interests: Small-scale biological-physical interactions in plankton.
Contact: hsjiang@whoi.edu
Dennis McGillicuddy
Senior Scientist
Research Interests: Modeling of ocean circulation and productivity.
Contact: dmcgillicuddy@whoi.edu
Hilde Oliver
Assistant Scientist
Research Interests: Biogeochemical consequences of coastal ocean dynamics, impacts of glacial melting on high latitude coastal primary productivity and nutrient cycling using Regional Ocean Modeling Systems (ROMS).
Contact: holiver@whoi.edu
David Ralston
Senior Scientist
Research Interests: Fluid mechanics and scalar transport in estuaries and the coastal ocean.
Contact: dralston@whoi.edu
Britt Raubenheimer
COFDL Lab Manager/Senior Scientist
Research Interests: Surf and swashzone processes, wave runup, morphological evolution.
Lab Site: PV Lab
Contact: braubenheimer@whoi.edu
Malcolm Scully
Associate Scientist with Tenure
Research Interests: Circulation and turbulent mixing in the coastal and estuarine environment, hypoxia in estuaries, boundary layers, Langmuir circulation.
Contact: mscully@whoi.edu
Maddie Smith
Assistant Scientist
Research Interests: Sea ice; waves and wave-ice interactions; upper ocean processes; Arctic and Antarctic fieldwork; integrating observations and climate models.
Contact: madisonmsmith@whoi.edu
Peter Traykovski
Associate Scientist with Tenure
Research Interests: Sediment transport on the continental shelf and in estuaries.
Contact: ptraykovski@whoi.edu
Weifeng Gordon Zhang
Associate Scientist with Tenure
Research Interests: Numerical ocean modeling, data assimilation, model-based observing system design.
Contact: wzhang@whoi.edu
Seth Zippel
Adjunct Scientist
Research Interests: Waves, wave breaking, wave/current interaction, wave/ice interaction, air/sea interactions, turbulence and boundary layers.
Website: https://zippelsf.github.io
Contact: szippel@whoi.edu