{"id":5,"date":"2017-11-20T14:15:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T18:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/template-blue-prepop\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2024-01-08T10:40:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T14:40:56","slug":"front-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/elgar\/","title":{"rendered":"front page"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/elgar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2017\/11\/DSC_3862_450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"706\" \/><\/p>\n\t<h2>Dr.\u00a0Steve Elgar<\/h2>\nSenior Scientist<br \/>\nApplied Ocean Physics &amp; Engineering Department\n<strong>Contact Information:<\/strong><br \/>\nWork: 508-289-3614<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:elgar@whoi.edu\">elgar@whoi.edu<\/a><br \/>\nBigelow 206\n<strong>Mailing Address:<\/strong><br \/>\n266 Woods Hole Road,\u00a0MS #11<br \/>\nWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution<br \/>\nWoods Hole, MA 02543\n\t<h3>Research Interests<\/h3>\n<p>Observations and models of nearshore processes, including wave evolution across the continental shelf to the shoreline, the corresponding breaking-wave-driven circulation, and the subsequent changes to surfzone morphology (e.g., beach erosion and accretion). Analysis of nonlinear random processes, especially geophysical time series. <\/p>\n\t<h3>Graduate Students<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Thomas Berge MS 1988 <em>DSP Workstations<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Gloria Sebert MS 1989 <em>Statistics of bicoherence and biphase<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Vinod Chandran PhD 1990 <em>2-D Bispectral analysis<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Mary Ann Ferriole MS 1990 <em>Dissipation in the surf zone<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Zhenhua Liu PhD 1993 <em>Wave group statistics<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Barry Vanhoff PhD 1996 <em>Simulation of nonlinear ocean waves<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Edie Gallagher PhD 1996 (co-chair Guza) <em>Observations of sand bar evolution on a natural beach<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Anton Schoenbacher MS 1997 <em>Wave refraction\/diffraction GUI<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Fernanda Hoefel PhD 2003 <em>Wave-induced sediment transport and morphological change<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Jim Thomson PhD 2006 <em>Infragravity waves<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Mara Orescanin, PhD 2015, <em>Processes near an inlet mouth<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Melissa Moulton, PhD 2016<em>, Perturbations to the surfzone seafloor<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Julia Hopkins, PhD 2017<em>, Shoreline morphological evolution<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Ciara Dooley (started Fall 2019), <i>The nearshore mesoscale<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t<h3>Postdoctoral Researchers<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>John Schneider (1990-1992)<\/li>\n<li>Vinod Chandran (1990-1993)<\/li>\n<li>Zhenhua Liu (1994)<\/li>\n<li>Barry Vanhoff (1996-1997)<\/li>\n<li>Tom Hsu (2003-2004)<\/li>\n<li>Jim Thomson (2006)<\/li>\n<li>David Clark (2011-2013)<\/li>\n<li>Erika Johnson (2017)<\/li>\n<li>Julia Hopkins (2017)<\/li>\n<li>Enrique Padilla (2021-2022)<\/li>\n<li>Paige Hovenga (2021-2022)<\/li>\n<li>Drude Christensen (2021-present)<\/li>\n<li>Marie-Pierre Delisle (2023-present)<\/li>\n<li>Reza Salatin (2023-present)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t<h3>Navy students (co-advised with Britt Raubenheimer):<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Charles Murman (2022-2024)<\/li>\n<li>Seth Ammons (2022-2024)<\/li>\n<li>Austin Faddish (2022-2024)\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/elgar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2022\/03\/Elgar_vita_2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDownload CV\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<h3>Education<\/h3>\n<p>B.S. University of Idaho, 1980, Civil Engineering &amp; Mathematics<\/p>\n<p>M.S. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1981, Oceanography<\/p>\n<p>Ph.D. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1985, Oceanography<\/p>\n\t<h3>Awards<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Excellence in refereeing for JGR Oceans<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/press-room\/news-release\/elgar-NSSEFFfellow\/\">National Security Science\u00a0and Engineering\u00a0Faculty Fellow<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/press-room\/news-release\/elgar-NSSEFFfellow\/\">Vannevar Bush\u00a0Faculty Fellow<\/a><\/li>\n<li>W. van Allen Clark Chair for Excellence in Oceanography<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t<h3>Affiliations<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Research Associate, Scripps Institution of Oceanography<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t<h3>Related Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pv-lab.org\"><strong>PV Lab Site<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr.\u00a0Steve Elgar Senior Scientist Applied Ocean Physics &amp; Engineering Department Contact Information: Work: 508-289-3614 elgar@whoi.edu Bigelow 206 Mailing Address: 266 Woods Hole Road,\u00a0MS #11 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, MA 02543 Research Interests Observations and models of nearshore processes, including wave evolution across the continental shelf to the shoreline, the corresponding breaking-wave-driven circulation, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/elgar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/elgar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/elgar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/elgar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/elgar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/elgar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/elgar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/elgar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}