People
Former Students
Dr. Luka Catipovic
PhD 2023, MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science & Engineering
WHOI Department: Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry (MCG)
MIT Department: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
Luka earned his doctorate in the Joint Program for Chemical Oceanography, with his home department at WHOI in Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry and his home department at MIT in EAPS. Luka has dual bachelor degrees in Chemical Engineering and in Applied Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with a minor in Chemistry. Luka's doctoral research focused on the chemical oceanography of Arctic coastal margins and the interactions between river inputs and the coastal ocean. Luka began a postdoc in the Tzortziou Bio-Optics Lab at City College of New York in 2023.
Dr. Ryan O'Shea
PhD 2020, MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science & Engineering
WHOI Department: Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering
MIT Department: Mechanical Engineering
Ryan completed his PhD in the Laney lab in 2020. Before coming to WHOI Ryan earned a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island. His research in the Joint Program involved the development of hyperspectral camera systems for use in ocean color applications. Ryan was awarded an NDSEG Fellowship in 2017. Ryan published two papers from his dissertation which was titled Computational approaches for sub-meter ocean color remote sensing. Ryan currently works as a Senior Research Scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (SSAI) on machine learning & ocean color algorithm development.
Dr. Hangzhou Wang
PhD 2015, Mechatronics, Zhejiang University
Hangzhou completed his doctoral degree research in Mechatronics as a guest student in the Laney lab in 2015. His research focused on optoelectronic instrumentation for measuring light fields in and under sea ice. His research in the Laney lab resulted in papers in Appl. Opt. and J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech. Hangzhou currently is an Associate Professor at the Ocean College at Zhejiang University.
Xzayana Henderson
2021 PEP Summer fellow, Dakota State University
Xzayana was a Woods Hole (Partnership Education Program (PEP) student working on her PEP research through the Laney lab in summer 2021. She joined the lab as a rising Senior and a Biology major at Dakota State University in Pierre, South Dakota. Xzayana worked on digital image analyses using ImageJ of phytoplankton images collected in wintertime in the Alaskan Arctic.
Erin Larragoite
WHOI Summer Student Fellow, 2013, University of New Mexico
Erin was awarded a 2013 WHOI Summer Student Fellowship to study in the Laney lab. She examined algal imagery from under-ice environments. Her undergraduate interests were in immunology and she earned a PhD at the School of Medicine at the University of Utah, studying immunology and microbiology.
Dr. Paul Lerner
WHOI Summer Student Fellow, 2012, University of California Berkeley
Paul was awarded a 2012 WHOI Summer Student Fellowship to study in the Laney lab. He worked on under-ice optial data taken from Ice-tethered Profilers. He later was accepted into the MIT/WHOI Joint Program and earned his PhD in the Joint Program in Chemical Oceanography in 2018. He then was awarded a USRA NASA postdoctoral position at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.