{"id":609,"date":"2019-08-26T09:41:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T13:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/?page_id=609"},"modified":"2026-05-13T08:59:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:59:56","slug":"investigators","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/background\/investigators\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

Investigators<\/h1>\n

Principal Investigators<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"Toole\"\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t

John Toole<\/a><\/h3>\n

John Toole is a co-developer of the Ice-Tethered Profiler with scientific interests ranging from large-scale ocean circulation and watermass transformation to turbulent mixing processes in addition to instrument development.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"jkob_headshot\"\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t

Jeff O’Brien<\/h3>\n

Jeff O’Brien is responsible for the on-going ITP engineering development activities along with managing the scheduling and logistics of the ITP observing program and supervising deployment operations.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"S.Cole\"\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t

Sylvia Cole<\/a><\/h3>\n

Sylvia Cole is an expert in velocity observations, and in air-ice-ocean interactions and ocean stirring and mixing processes.<\/p>\n\t

Other Contributors<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"A.Houk\"\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t

Adam Houk<\/a>
\n<\/h3>\n

Adam Houk is responsible for ITP data handling and processing.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"Mary-Louise\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t

Mary-Louise Timmermans<\/a><\/h3>\n

Mary-Louise analyzes Ice-Tethered Profiler measurements to understand Arctic Ocean mixing, property transports and circulation dynamics.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"John\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t

John Kemp<\/a><\/h3>\n

John Kemp designed the ITP tether subsystem, supervises construction of operational tethers and directs deployment operations.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"J.Pietro\"\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t

Jeff Pietro<\/a>
\n<\/h3>\n

Jeff Pietro assists with in-water testing of ITP systems and handles shipping logistics of ITP gear.<\/p>\n\t

Past Team Members and Contributors<\/h2>\n\t

Rick Krishfield<\/a><\/h3>\n

Rick Krishfield is experienced in the development and deployment of Arctic buoy systems, and manages the ITP construction, testing, and field deployment operations.<\/p>\n\t

Susan Sholi<\/a><\/h3>\n

Susan Sholi assisted the ITP PIs with proposal, report and paper preparation and website maintenance.<\/p>\n\t

Ken Doherty<\/h3>\n

Ken Doherty is the co-developer of the WHOI moored profiler. He and Terry Hammar conducted the engineering design work for the ITP and coordinated the mechanical construction of the profiler and surface buoy.<\/p>\n\t

Terry Hammar<\/h3>\n

Terry Hammar worked with Ken Doherty on the engineering design work or the ITP and the mechanical construction of the profiler and surface buoy.<\/p>\n\t

Keith von der Heydt<\/a><\/h3>\n

Keith designed and built the original ITP data modem and satellite communication subsystems.<\/p>\n\t

Dan Frye<\/a><\/h3>\n

Dan managed and provided expertise to the original technical development program of the ITP.<\/p>\n\t

Kris Newhall<\/a><\/h3>\n

Kris assisted with deployment and recovery of ITP systems.<\/p>\n\t

Don Peters<\/a><\/h3>\n

Don designed components of the mooring hardware and the specialized deployment apparatus that is used to deploy the system from the ice.<\/p>\n\t

Andrey Proshutinsky<\/a><\/h3>\n

Andrey Proshutinsky is a specialist in Arctic Ocean research. He is responsible for researching the optimum buoy array required to maximize acquisition of hydrographic data.<\/p>\n\t

P. E. Robbins<\/a><\/h3>\n

Pelle assisted with data submission to national archives.<\/p>\n\t

Frank Bahr<\/a><\/h3>\n

Frank assisted with quality control of the ITP observations and participated on several ITP deployments.<\/p>\n\t

Chris Linder<\/a><\/h3>\n

Chris provided visual imagery for this website and contributed to its construction.<\/p>\n\t

Countless other researchers, technicians and vessel personnel have assisted with the ITP deployment programs through the years.\u00a0 While too numerous to list, the ITP program is indebted to them and their contributions.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Investigators Principal Investigators John Toole John Toole is a co-developer of the Ice-Tethered Profiler with scientific interests ranging from large-scale ocean circulation and watermass transformation to turbulent mixing processes in addition to instrument development. Jeff O’Brien Jeff O’Brien is responsible for the on-going ITP engineering development activities along with managing the scheduling and logistics of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"parent":604,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"tpl-sidebar.php","meta":{"advanced-sidebar-menu\/link-title":"","advanced-sidebar-menu\/exclude-page":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6434,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/609\/revisions\/6434"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}