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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

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Steve Elgar

Senior Scientist

Research Interests: Nearshore processes, ocean waves, nonlinear random processes.

Lab Site: PV Lab

Contact: elgar@whoi.edu

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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

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Houshuo Jiang

Senior Scientist

Research Interests: Small-scale biological-physical interactions in plankton.

Contact: hsjiang@whoi.edu

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Dennis McGillicuddy

Senior Scientist

Research Interests: Modeling of ocean circulation and productivity.

Contact: dmcgillicuddy@whoi.edu

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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

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David Ralston

Senior Scientist

Research Interests: Fluid mechanics and scalar transport in estuaries and the coastal ocean.

Contact: dralston@whoi.edu

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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

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Malcolm Scully

Associate Scientist with Tenure

Research Interests: Circulation and turbulent mixing in the coastalĀ and estuarine environment, hypoxia in estuaries, boundary layers, Langmuir circulation.

Contact: mscully@whoi.edu

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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

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Peter Traykovski

Associate Scientist with Tenure

Research Interests: Sediment transport on the continental shelf and in estuaries.

Contact: ptraykovski@whoi.edu

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Weifeng Gordon Zhang

Associate Scientist with Tenure

Research Interests: Numerical ocean modeling, data assimilation, model-based observing system design.

Contact: wzhang@whoi.edu

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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