Name:  Hanna Chaja

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  hxc907@miami.edu

Advisor:  Brian Mapes

Research Topic: 
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Research Keywords: 
Gravity Waves, Troposphere, Stratocumulus Clouds, Satellite Imagery

Name:  Shanna Chamhitt test

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  Sxc2720@miami.edu

Advisor:  David Nolan

Research Topic: 
Tropical Cyclone Outflow Layer.

Research Keywords: 
Outflow layer, gravity waves, stratospheric interactions

Name:  James Christie

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Website: https://jameschristie.weebly.com/

Email:  jac89554@miami.edu

Advisor:  Cassandra Gaston

Research Topic: Elucidating how heterogeneous
reactions in the atmosphere lead to secondary pollutants.

Research Keywords: Air Quality, Atmospheric Chemistry,
Mass Spectrometry, Field Science, Laboratory Science

Name: Sophia DiPietro

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  sophia.dipietro@earth.miami.edu

Advisor:  Amy Clement

Research Topic: 
Climate Change

Research Keywords: 
Climate, extreme events, extreme heat, climate impacts

Name: Matthew Donahue

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  mxd45136@miami.edu

Advisor:  Sharan Majumdar

Research Topic: 
Weather Forecasting

Name: Will Downs

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  will.downs@earth.miami.edu

Advisor:  Sharan Majumdar

Research Topic: 
Formation and Early Organization of Tropical Cyclones

Research Keywords: 
Tropical Cyclones, Tropical Cyclogenesis, Hurricanes, Machine Learning, Modeling

Name:  Kerri Englert

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  Kxe210@miami.edu

Advisor:  Sharan Majumdar

Research Topic: 
Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification

Research Keywords: 
Cyclone, storm, hurricane, rapid, intensification, cloud

Name: Lily Johnston

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  lilyjohnston@miami.edu

Advisor:  Ben Kirtman

Research Topic:
Subseasonal-Interannual Prediction

Research Keywords:
ENSO, NMME, Climate Variability, High Resolution Modeling, Intraseasonal-to-Interannual prediction

Name: Josiah Kaiser

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  jmk433@miami.edu

Advisor:  Ben Kirtman

Research Topic:
Regional Climate Change

Research Keywords:
Climate, Environment, Atmosphere, Pollution, Models, Dynamics

Name: Aidan Mahoney

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  aidan.mahoney@miami.edu

Advisor:  Brian Soden

Research Topic:
Tropical Cyclones 

Research Keywords:
tropical cyclones, climate change, hurricanes, thermodynamics

Name:  Cait Martinez

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  caitmartinez@miami.edu

Advisor:  Ben Kirtman

Research Topic: The role of atmospheric noise on ENSO predictability

Research Keywords: 
climate variability and predictability, ENSO, ML

Name:  Eric Mischell

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:   eric.mischell@earth.miami.edu

Advisor:   Brian Soden

Research Topic: The response of the hydrological cycle to global warming

Research Keywords: 
Extreme rainfall, convection, satellite observations

Name: Chanyoung Park

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  chanyoung.park@miami.edu

Website:  https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1bK9Q1MAAAAJ&hl=ko

Advisor:  Dr. Brian Soden

Research Topic:
Constraining model simulations of aerosol-cloud interactions using
satellite observations

Research Keywords:
Aerosol-cloud interaction, Climate sensitivity

Name: Michael Perez

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  michaelperez@miami.edu

Advisor:  Dr. Paquita Zuidema

Research Topic:
Arctic Cloud Radiative Properties

Research Keywords:
Arctic clouds, ARCSIX, Radiative Equilibrium, Climate Change, the New Arctic

Name:  Cameron Pine

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email: cmp284@miami.edu

Advisor:  David Nolan

Research Topic: Using a novel ground-radar dataset
to examine wind shear impacts on TC structure and intensity

Research Keywords: TC Structure, Vertical Wind Shear,
Vortex Tilt,Precipitation Asymmetry, Radar, Machine Learning,
Ventilation, Intensity Change

Name: Theresia Phoa

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  tbp32@miami.edu

Advisor:  Ben Kirtman

Research Topic:
Climate Extremes

Research Keywords:
climate change, climate extremes, applied meteorology

Name: Juliette Rocha

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Website: Linkedin

Email: julietterocha@miami.edu

Advisor:  Marybeth Arcodia

Research Topic: Ocean–Atmosphere–Land
Interactions and Machine Learning for
Improved Subseasonal Precipitation

Research Keywords: Artificial intelligence,
subseasonal, precipitation, prediction,
air-sea interactions, land-atmosphere interactions

Name: Christina Schuler

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  ct123@miami.edu

Advisor:   Ben Kirtman

Research Topic: Coupled variability in the
NASH-Gulf Stream system and its influence on tropical cyclones

Research Keywords: North Atlantic, NASH,
Gulf Stream, tropical cyclones, coupled variability

Name: Tyler Tatro

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email: txt599@miami.edu

Advisor:   Paquita Zuidema

Research Topic:
smoke-cloud interactions in the southeast Atlantic

Research Keywords:
aerosols, clouds, regional climate

Name: Evan Wellmeyer

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  ewellmeyer@miami.edu

Advisor:   Brian Soden

Research Topic:
Machine Learning in Atmospheric Sciences.

Research Keywords:
Machine Learning, Climate, Atmospheric Science, Prediction, Climate Change, Tropical Cyclones

Name: Alexis Wilson

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  avw30@miami.edu

Advisor:  Sharan Majumdar

Research Topic: Tropical Cyclogenesis in the Caribbean

Research Keywords: Atmospheric Science,
Tropical Meteorology, Tropical Cyclones,
Cyclogenesis, African Easterly Waves

Name: Niloy Bhattacharyya

Program / Degree:  Environmental Science &
Policy / M.S

Email: nbb42@miami.edu

Advisor: Jennifer Jacquet

Research topic: How Aquaculture Companies Frame
Issues about the Environment, Animals, and Public Health

Name: Gabriella Berman

Program / Degree:  Environmental Science &
Policy / Ph.D.

Email: ghberman@miami.edu

Advisor: Kenneth Broad

Research topic: High seas resource extraction
and biodiversity.

Research keywords: geocomputation,
international law, marine science

Name: José María Cunill Flores

Program / Degree:  Environmental Science &
Policy / Ph.D.

Email: jmc1118@miami.edu

Website: Google Scholar

Advisor: Alberto J. Caban-Martínez

Research topic: How environmental contaminants
affect human health

Name: John Hlavin

Program / Degree:  Environmental Science &
Policy / Ph.D.

Email: john.hlavin@earth.miami.edu

Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John-Hlavin

Advisor: Catherine Macdonald

Research topic: Multi‑tracer reconstruction of
shark trophodynamics across ontogeny

Name: Ayushi Jain

Program / Degree:  Environmental Science &
Policy / Ph.D.

Email: axj974@miami.edu

Advisor: Christopher Searcy

Research topic: Interconnected Futures:
Socio-ecological Impacts Of Small Dams

Name: Aracelis Jimenez

Email: afj30@miami.edu

Website: LinkedIn

Advisor: Manoj Shivlani & Elizabeth Babcock

Research topic: Shark depredation

Name: Christine Martin 

Email: cmartin1624@miami.edu

Website: Linkedin

Advisor: Catherine Macdonald

Research topic: Shark Behavior & Habitat Use,
Public Engagement

Name: Elizabeth Perez

Program / Degree:  Environmental Science &
Policy / Ph.D.

Email: exp506@miami.edu

Advisor: Traci Ardren

Research topic: Zooarchaeology of the Key Largo fishbone
assemblage, and case studies of ITEK in federal decisions.

Name: Adam Radpour

Program / Degree:  Environmental Science &
Policy / Ph.D.

Email: aradpour@miami.edu

Website: LinkedIn

Advisor: Kenny Broad, Martin Grosell

Research topic: Natural Resource Damage
Assessment policy governing oil spill response/
restoration in U.S. waterways

Name: Emily Yeager

Program / Degree:  Environmental Science and Policy / PhD

Email: eay8@miami.edu

Advisor: Catherine Macdonald

Research Topic: Sub-tropical Marine Symbioses

Research Keywords: Sharks, Remoras, Coral,
Fish, Manta Rays, Bacteria

Name: Guohaonan Zhang

Program / Degree:  Environmental Science and Policy / PhD

Email: gxz217@miami.edu

Advisor: Ching-Hua Chuan

Research Topic: Environmental Communication

Research Keywords: Microplastics, Environmental health

Name: Kenzie Cooke

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD

Email: kmc390@miami.edu

Advisor: Diego Lirman

Research Topic: Alkalinity enrichment for coral reef restoration

Research Keywords: coral restoration, coral husbandry,
alkalinity, ocean alkalinity enhancement, calcification

Name: Jonathan Cordle

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD

Email: jonathan.cordle@earth.miami.edu

Advisor:  Rachael Heuer

Research Topic: Fish neurophysiology and
behavior in response to climate stress

Research Keywords: Fish physiology, behavior,
imaging, genetics, climate

Name: Michelle Fernandez

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD

Email: maf45257@miami.edu

Website: www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-fernandez1

Advisor: Elizabeth Babcock, David Die

Research Topic: Dolphinfish: changes in distribution &
small-scale fishery interactions in the Inter-American Seas

Research Keywords:Fisheries, dolphinfish, highly
migratory species, IUU fishing, species distribution model,
ocean warming, fisher surveys

Name: Elka Garcia-Rada

Program/Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD

Website: Linkedin

Email: ejg225@miami.edu

Advisor: Gabriel Reygondeau

Research Topic: Seasonality as a Mechanism
Shaping Global Biodiversity Patterns

Research Keywords: Climate change, SDM, s
easonality, modeling, migration

Name: Juan Gonzalez

Program/Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD

Website: Linkedin

Email: jdg271@miami.edu

Advisor: Richard Coleman

Research Topic: Fish ecology

Research Keywords: Fish, reef, seagrass, mesophotic, ecology, population genetics

Name:  Katherine Hardy

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology and
Ecology / PhD

Website:  LinkedIn

Email:  katherine.hardy@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:   Andrew Baker

Research Topic:
Coral reproduction and juvenile resilience

Research Keywords:
Climate change, coral reproduction, resilience,
cryopreservation, assisted evolution, symbiosis

Name: Sohyoung Kim

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology & Ecology / PhD

Email: sykim@miami.edu

Advisor: Nikki Traylor-Knowles

Research Topic: Cnidarian Immune Cell Culture and HCR-FISH imaging

Research Keywords: Cnidarian, Coral, Immune Cell, Phagocyte, Cell culture, HCR-FISH

Name:  Patrick Kiel

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology & Ecology / PhD

Email:  pkiel@rsmas.miami.edu

Website:  https://patrickkiel.com

Advisor:   Dr. Vivek Prakash

Research Topic: Investigating how biophysical and
engineering properties modulate coral physiology and
ecology

Research Keywords:
coral reefs, ecology, biophysics, engineering,
restoration, ocean acidification, translational ecology

Name:  Sophia Lee

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology & Ecology / PhD

Email: sxl4798@miami.edu

Advisor:  Andrew Baker

Research Topic:

Research Keywords: Coral reefs, spawning,
outplanting, restoration, conservation, genetic variation

Name: Bret Marek 

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology & Ecology / PhD

Email: bam313@miami.edu

Advisor: Martin Grosell

Research Topic: Metabolic Rate and Ichthyocarbonate

Research Keywords: Ichthyocarbonate, Metabolic Rate, Temperature, Feeding State, Lifestyle, Body Size

Name: Ethan Mimick

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD

Email: emm258@miami.edu

Advisor: Mohammad Moniruzzaman

Research Topic: Viral Ecology

Research Keywords: Polinton, Viruses,
ecology, dynamics, metagenomics

Name: Benjamin Minch

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD

Webiste: https://benjaminminch.netlify.app/

Email: emm258@miami.edu

Advisor: Mohammad Moniruzzaman

Research Topic: Giant virus ecology and genomics

Research Keywords: Giant virus, bioinformatics,
viral ecology, microbiology

Name: Amalia Seigel 

Program / Degree: Marine Biology &Ecology / PhD

Email: ams1084@miami.edu

Advisor: Andrew Baker

Research Topic: Potential drivers behind symbiont
specificity and competition

Research Keywords: Symbiont Specificity,
Coral Conservation, Symbiont Manipulation

Name: Clayton Vondriska

Program / Degree: Marine Biology & Ecology / PhD

Website: https://clayvondriska.wixsite.com/mysite

Email: cmv148@miami.edu

Advisor: Paul Sikkel 

Research Topic: Sensory ecology
of marine invertebrates

Research Keywords: parasites, chemical ecology,
host-finding, settlement, invertebrate ecology

Name: Wenlong Zhang

Program / Degree:  Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD

Email:  wxz296@miami.edu

Advisor: Dr. Martin Grosell

Research Topic:
Environmental effects on invertebrate calcification

Research Keywords:
Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Physiology, Proteomic analysis

Name:  Jorge Agobian

Program / Degree:   Marine Geosciences / PhD

Website:  https://jnagobian.wixsite.com/rsmas

Email:  jagobian@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. Keir Becker

Research Topic:
Hydrothermal circulation in spreading centers: fluid
recharge vs. discharge @ edges of abyssal hills

Research Keywords:
hydrothermal circulation, fluid discharge, fluid recharge,
abyssal hills, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, North Pond

Name:  Nicholas Appiah 

Program / Degree:   Marine Geosciences / PhD

Website: Linkedin

Email: njappiah@earth.miami.edu

Advisor: Sam Goldberg

Research Topic: Quantifying hydrological drivers
of landscape and ecosystem changes

Research Keywords: hydrogeology, remote sensing,
machine learning,landscape evolution, everglades

Name: Flora Beleznay

Program / Degree:   Marine Geosciences / PhD

Website: Linkedin

Email: fxb522@miami.edu

Advisor: Sam Purkis, Gregor Eberli

Research Topic: Spatial Self-Organization in
Modern Reefs and Reefal Carbonates

Research Keywords: Reaction-diffusion modeling,
Turing patterns, spatial self-organization,
activator-inhibitor systems, machine learning

Name:  Morgan Chakraborty

Program / Degree:   Marine Geosciences / PhD

Email: morgan.chakraborty@earth.miami.edu

Advisor:  Sam Purkis

Research Topic: I use deep-sea samples to
reconstruct past ocean chemistry and climate variability. 

Research Keywords: Geochemistry, paleoclimatology,
deep sea fossil corals, extremophile microbes,
uranium-series isotopes

Name:  Giacomo Di Silvestro

Program / Degree:   Marine Geosciences / PhD

Email: gxd593@miami.edu

Advisor: Falk Amelung

Research Topic: Earthquake dynamic triggering of magmatic unrest

Research Keywords: Volcanism, Earthquake triggering, Insar

Name: Zonglin Guo

Program / Degree: Marine Geosciences / PhD

Email: zxg348@miami.edu

Advisor: Adam Holt

Research Topic: The effect of double subduction on plate motions

Research Keywords: geodynamics, numerical modelling, subduction zones, double subduction system, subduction kinematics

Name: Anna Ling

Program / Degree:  Marine Geology and Geophysics / PhD

Website:  alingrsmas.wordpress.com

Email:  a.ling@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:   Gregor Eberli

Research Topic:
Influence of Ocean Currents on Carbonate Platform Drowning

Research Keywords:
Ocean Currents, Nutrients, Carbonate, Platform Drowning,
Phosphorus, Nitrogen, Microfacies

Name: Jake Longnecker 

Program / Degree:  Marine Geosciences / PhD

Website: Linkedin

Email: jake.longenecker@miami.edu

Advisor: Arthur Gleason

Research Topic: Marine Thermals & Remote Sensing

Research Keywords: Satellites, Thermal, Coral,
GIS, Modelling, Python

Name: Mustafa Emirhan Pehlivanlı

Program / Degree:  Marine Geosciences / PhD

Email: epehlivanli@earth.miami.edu

Advisor: Falk C Amelung

Research Topic: Surface deformation
monitoring using InSAR application

Research Keywords: Remote Sensing, Time series,
InSAR, Deformation Monitoring

Name: Clément G.L. Pollier

Program / Degree:   Marine Geosciences / PhD

Website: https://www.clementpollier.com

Email:  cxp2751@miami.edu

Advisor: Amanda Oehlert

Research Topic: Geochemical biosignatures
in microbial deposits

Research Keywords: Organosediments, Biosignature,
Stable isotopes, Arsenic, Extreme environment

Name: Cameron Sam

Program / Degree: Marine Geosciences / PhD

Email:  cxs1471@miami.edu

Advisor: Amanda Oehlert

Research Topic:
The fractionation of stable isotopes in fish-produced carbonates

Research Keywords:
ichthyocarbonate, stable isotopes, carbon-13, carbon cycle,
fractionation

Name: Elizabeth Vinarski

Program / Degree:  Marine Geology and Geophysics / PhD

Email:  elizabeth.vinarski@earth.miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. Guoqing Lin

Website: https://www.elizabethkatevinarski.com/scientist

Research Topic:
Seismic full waveform inversion imaging of dense
nodal array on Kilauea Volcano 

Research Keywords:
seismology, volcanology, tomography,
full waveform inversion, ambient noise interferometry

Name: Yidan Wang

Program / Degree:  Marine Geosciences / PhD

Email: yxw1395@miami.edu

Advisor:   Guoqing Lin

Research Topic:Imaging Seismogenic Architecture and
Dynamics Through Tomography,
Sequences, and Machine Learning

Research Keywords: Seismology, Tomography,
Subduction zone, Earthquake relocation, Machine learning

Name: Shuying Zhao

Program / Degree:  Marine Geosciences / PhD

Email: txz386@miami.edu

Advisor: Adam Holt

Research Topic: Use geodynamic models to understand subduction zone dynamics

Research Keywords: subduction zone, mantle flow, earthquake, geodynamic modelling

Name: Hanjing Dai

Program / Degree:  Applied Marine Physics

Email: hxd146@miami.edu

Advisor: Brian Haus

Research Topic: Spatial and temporal measurements
of ocean surface waves using Shape from Polarization (SfP)

Research Keywords: Ocean surface waves,
Shape from Polarization (SfP), Ocean optics,
Computer version, Directional wave spectrum,
Wind stress, Air-sea coupling

Name: Samuel Ephraim

Program / Degree:  Atmospheric Sciences / PhD

Email:  soe10@miami.edu

Advisor:  Paquita Zuidema

Research Topic:
Cold air outbreaks

Research Keywords:
Meteorology, clouds, arctic, dynamics,
microphysics, boundary layer, ice, snow

Name: Jackie Kiszka

Program / Degree:  Meterorology &
Physical Oceanography / PhD

Email:  jkiszka@earth.miami.edu

Advisor:  Amy Clement

Research Topic: Decadal-to-multidecadal climate
variability in global climate models

Research Keywords: Global climate modeling,
Climate variability and change,
Climate dynamics, Signal-to-noise problem

Name: Niko Odhiambo

Program / Degree:  Meterorology &
Physical Oceanography / PhD

Email: lxo335@miami.edu

Advisor: Lisa Beal

Research Topic: Changes in heat transport into the
Southern Ocean due to variability in the Agulhas Return Current

Research Keywords: physical oceanography,
Agulhas Return Current, mesoscale eddies, poleward heat flux

Name:  Ivenis Pita

Program / Degree:  Meteorology and
Physical Oceanography / PhD

Website: https://ivenispita.github.io/science_mode/

Email:  ivenis.pita@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:   Dr. Gustavo Goni (NOAA AOML),
and Dr. Benjamin Kirtman (UM)

Research Topic:
Influence of Western Boundary Currents
on Coastal Sea Level

Research Keywords:
Sea Level, Coastal Variability, Brazil Current,
Hydrography, Physical Oceanography

Name:  Snigdha Samantaray

Program / Degree:   Meteorology and
Physical Oceanography / PhD

Website:   https://snigsam.github.io/

Email:  sxs3853@miami.edu

Advisor:   Brian Mapes

Research Topic:
Water Vapor Lakes in Western Equatorial Indian Ocean

Research Keywords:
Tropical Meteorology, Cloud and Convection Processes

Name: Rachel Sampson

Program / Degree:   Meteorology and
Physical Oceanography / PhD

Email: ras482@miami.edu

Advisor: Lisa Beal

Research Topic: Estimating horizontal
mixing andeddy heat/salt fluxes in the Cape Basin

Research Keywords: Agulhas Current, Mixing,
Physical Oceanography, Lateral Diffusivity, Eddy fluxes

Name:  Junfei Xia

Program / Degree:  Meteorology and
Physical Oceanography / PhD

Website:  http://junfeixia.com

Email:  junfei.xia@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor:  Dr. Tamay M Ozgokmen

Research Topic:
ML and DL applications in physical oceanography:
interpolation and classification

Research Keywords:
Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Drifter data;
SAR image classification; Dynamic Systems;
Submesoscale ocean motion

Name:  Paloma Cartwright

Program / Degree:  Ocean Sciences / PhD

Email:  pmc145@miami.edu

Advisor: Lisa Beal

Research Topic: The Florida Current and
its connection to coastal sea level

Research Keywords: sea level, ocean dynamics,
Florida Current, climate change

Name: Stephan Casey 

Program / Degree:  Ocean Sciences / PhD

Email: smc617@miami.edu

Advisor: Milan Curcic

Research Topic: Multiscale Modeling and Simulation,
Causal Induction, and Optimal Design of Experiments

Research Keywords: Information Theory,
Turbulence, Reinforcement Learning

Name: Katia Childs

Program / Degree:  Ocean Sciences / PhD

Website: Linkedin

Email: katiachilds@miami.edu

Advisor: Roland Romeiser

Research Topic: Using satellite mounted Synthetic
Aperture Radar to study the dynamics of
Arctic ice floes over time

Research Keywords: SAR, Satellite, Arctic, Ice Floe,
Image Processing, Remote Sensing, CSTARS

Name: Rachel Cohn

Program / Degree:  Ocean Sciences / MS

Email: rxc1304@miami.edu

Advisor: Mariana Bernardi Bif

Research Topic: Primary Productivity in the North Atlantic

Research Keywords: primary production, biogeochemistry, observational oceanography, oxygen cycles

Name:  Madeleine Dawson

Program / Degree:  Ocean Sciences / PhD

Email:  madeleine.dawson@rsmas.miami.edu

Website:  https://www.madeleinedawsonphd.com/

Advisor: Hans Graber

Research Topic: Machine Learning Sea
Ice Feature Extraction and Characterization from
Synthetic Aperture Radar Image

Research Keywords: Remote Sensing, SAR,
Synthetic Aperture Radar, Machine Learning

Name: Katelyn DeWater

Program / Degree:  Ocean Sciences / PhD

Email:  kdewater@miami.edu

Advisor:   Hans Graber

Research Topic: Quantification and analysis of
sea ice using stereo and SAR imagery

Research Keywords: Remote sensing, SAR,
stereoscopic, sea ice

Name: Jason Freisen

Program / Degree:  Ocean Sciences / PhD

Email: jaf3457@miami.edu

Advisor: Hilary Close

Research Topic: Isotopic indicators of marine
organic matter production, cycling, and export

Research Keywords: organic geochemistry,
stable isotopes, biogeochemical cycling,
marine microbial communities,
euphotic zone, oligotrophic gyres

Name: Sabrina Glynn

Program / Degree:  Ocean Sciences / PhD

Website: Linkedin

Email:  slu6@miami.edu

Advisor: Kim Popendorf

Research Topic: Carbon and energy (ATP) flow through
the ocean; who and what controls the transfer of energy?

Research Keywords: Marine Microbes; Biogeochemistry;
Carbon; Energy / ATP; Particulate Material; Phytoplankton

Name: Susan Harrison

Program / Degree:  Ocean Sciences / PhD

Email: sxh3244@miami.edu

Advisor: Milan Curcic

Research Topic: Air-sea interaction

Research Keywords: coastal drag, air-sea momentum flux,
wind-wave interactions, coupled models,
ag parameterization, land-air-sea interaction,
coastal transition zone

Name: Jeng Dailen

Program / Degree:  Ocean Sciences / PhD

Email: dlj73@miami.edu

Advisor: Hilary Close

Research Topic: Chemical characterization
of marine particulate organic matter

Research Keywords: Organic Geochemistry, Isotopes,
Biogeochemistry, Mass spectrometry, Particulate organic matter

Name: Jomphol Lamoonkit

Program / Degree:  Ocean Sciences / PhD

Email: jxl3645@miami.edu

Advisor: Mariana Bif

Research Topic: Biogeochemical cycles
in the Oxygen Minimum Zones

Research Keywords: Instrumentation developments,
Biogeochemical cycles, Observational oceanography,
BGC ARGO floats, Engineering

Name: Samantha Medina

Program / Degree:  Ocean Sciences / PhD

Website: www.linkedin.com/in/medinaxsamantha

Email: sxm1287@miami.edu

Advisor: Brian Haus

Research Topic: Growth and Decay of Wind
Driven Waves in Coastal Zones

Research Keywords: coastal physics, wave dynamics,
air-sea interaction, wind driven waves, directional wave spectra

Name:  Gabrielle Ricche

Program / Degree:  Applied Marine Physics / PhD

Email:  gxr544@miami.edu

Advisor:   Hans Graber

Research Topic: Detection and quantification
of icebergs and their response to wind and currents
using SAR imagery

Research Keywords: remote sensing, icebergs,
physical oceanography, climate, machine learning

Name:  Trina Rosing

Program / Degree: Ocean Sciences / MS

Email: kmr251@miami.edu

Advisor: Kim Popendorf

Research Topic: Microbiome of corals using eDNA

Research Keywords: eDNA, coral microbiome

Name: Phoebe Scharle

Program / Degree: Ocean Sciences / PhD

Email: pxs1137@miami.edu

Advisor: Cassandra Gaston

Research Topic: Air-sea interactions,
sea spray aerosol, saharan dust deposition

Research Keywords: Organic Sea spray aerosol,
saharan dust, nutrients, biogeochemical cycling,
chemical oceanography, atmospheric chemistry

Name: Katie Simi 

Program / Degree: Ocean Sciences / PhD

Email: kls276@miami.edu

Advisor: Brian Haus

Research Topic: Wave energy dissipation induced
by submerged porous breakwaters

Research Keywords: Coastal resilience, Coastal Engineering,
Hydrodynamics, Turbulence, Nature Based Engineering

Name:  Peisen Tan

Program / Degree:  Ocean Sciences / PhD

Email:  peisen.tan@rsmas.miami.edu

Advisor: Brian Haus

Research Topic: Air-sea interaction and momentum transfer

Research Keywords: Air-Sea Interaction, Waves,
Coastal Resilience, Physical Oceanography,
Experimental Physics