Name: Hanna Chaja Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Email: hxc907@miami.edu Advisor: Brian Mapes Research Topic: 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: Research Keywords: 
Tropical Cyclone Outflow Layer.
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 Research Keywords: Air Quality, Atmospheric Chemistry, 
reactions in the atmosphere lead to secondary pollutants.
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: Research Keywords: 
Climate Change
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: Research Keywords: 
Formation and Early Organization of Tropical Cyclones
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: Research Keywords: 
Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification
Cyclone, storm, hurricane, rapid, intensification, cloud
Name: Lily Johnston Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Email: lilyjohnston@miami.edu Advisor: Ben Kirtman Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Subseasonal-Interannual Prediction
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: Research Keywords:
Regional Climate Change
Climate, Environment, Atmosphere, Pollution, Models, Dynamics
Name: Aidan Mahoney Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Email: aidan.mahoney@miami.edu Advisor: Brian Soden Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Tropical Cyclones
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: Research Keywords:
Constraining model simulations of aerosol-cloud interactions using
satellite observations
Aerosol-cloud interaction, Climate sensitivity
Name: Michael Perez Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Email: michaelperez@miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Paquita Zuidema Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Arctic Cloud Radiative Properties
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 Research Keywords: TC Structure, Vertical Wind Shear, 
to examine wind shear impacts on TC structure and intensity
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: Research Keywords:
Climate Extremes
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 Research Keywords: Artificial intelligence, 
Interactions and Machine Learning for
Improved Subseasonal Precipitation
subseasonal, precipitation, prediction,
air-sea interactions, land-atmosphere interactions
Name: Tori Sargent Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Website: https://kirtman-research-group.github.io/people/ Email: t.sargent@miami.edu Advisor: Ben Kirtman/ Emily Becker Research Topic: Coastal climate Research Keywords: climate predictability, 
dynamics downscaling climate models for
regional applications sea level variability
sea level variability,
climate change, climate adaptation, regional predictions
Name: Christina Schuler Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Email: ct123@miami.edu Advisor: Ben Kirtman Research Topic: Coupled variability in the Research Keywords: North Atlantic, NASH, 
NASH-Gulf Stream system and its influence on tropical cyclones
Gulf Stream, tropical cyclones, coupled variability
Name: Tyler Tatro Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Email: txt599@miami.edu Advisor: Paquita Zuidema Research Topic: Research Keywords:
smoke-cloud interactions in the southeast Atlantic
aerosols, clouds, regional climate
Name: Evan Wellmeyer Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Email: ewellmeyer@miami.edu Advisor: Brian Soden Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Machine Learning in Atmospheric Sciences.
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: Armen Agopian Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Advisor: Katharine Mach
Name: Alex Carbaugh-Rutland Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Advisor: Jessica Owley, Kenny Broad
Name: Mayra Cruz Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Advisor: Amy Clement
Name: Jalyse Cuff Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Advisor: Katharine Mach
Name: Katie Geddes Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Advisor: Katharine J. Mach
Name: Micaiala Hamner Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. Tyler Harrison
Name: Carolien Kraan Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policylicy / Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. Katharine Mach
Name: Ethan Prall Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Advisor: Jennifer Jacquet, Katharine J. Mach
Name: M. Jesse Schneider Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. Traci Ardren
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 Research Keywords: Fish physiology, behavior, 
behavior in response to climate stress
imaging, genetics, climate
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 Research Keywords: Climate change, SDM, s 
Shaping Global Biodiversity Patterns
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 Website: LinkedIn Email: katherine.hardy@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Andrew Baker Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Ecology / PhD
Coral reproduction and juvenile resilience
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 Research Keywords:
engineering properties modulate coral physiology and
ecology
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 Research Keywords: Symbiont Specificity, 
specificity and competition
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 Research Keywords: parasites, chemical ecology, 
of marine invertebrates
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: Research Keywords:
Environmental effects on invertebrate calcification
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: Research Keywords:
Hydrothermal circulation in spreading centers: fluid
recharge vs. discharge @ edges of abyssal hills
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 Research Keywords: hydrogeology, remote sensing, 
of landscape and ecosystem changes
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 Research Keywords: Reaction-diffusion modeling, 
Modern Reefs and Reefal Carbonates
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 Research Keywords: Geochemistry, paleoclimatology, 
reconstruct past ocean chemistry and climate variability.
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: Research Keywords:
Influence of Ocean Currents on Carbonate Platform Drowning
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 Research Keywords: Remote Sensing, Time series,
monitoring using InSAR application
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 Research Keywords: Organosediments, Biosignature, 
in microbial deposits
Stable isotopes, Arsenic, Extreme environment
Name: Cameron Sam Program / Degree: Marine Geosciences / PhD Email: cxs1471@miami.edu Advisor: Amanda Oehlert Research Topic: Research Keywords:
The fractionation of stable isotopes in fish-produced carbonates
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: Research Keywords:
Seismic full waveform inversion imaging of dense
nodal array on Kilauea Volcano
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 Research Keywords: Seismology, Tomography, 
Dynamics Through Tomography,
Sequences, and Machine Learning
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 Research Keywords: Ocean surface waves, 
of ocean surface waves using Shape from Polarization (SfP)
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: Research Keywords:
Cold air outbreaks
Meteorology, clouds, arctic, dynamics,
microphysics, boundary layer, ice, snow
Name: Jackie Kiszka Program / Degree: Meterorology & Email: jkiszka@earth.miami.edu Advisor: Amy Clement Research Topic: Decadal-to-multidecadal climate Research Keywords: Global climate modeling, 
Physical Oceanography / PhD
variability in global climate models
Climate variability and change,
Climate dynamics, Signal-to-noise problem
Name: Niko Odhiambo Program / Degree: Meterorology & Email: lxo335@miami.edu Advisor: Lisa Beal Research Topic: Changes in heat transport into the Research Keywords: physical oceanography, 
Physical Oceanography / PhD
Southern Ocean due to variability in the Agulhas Return Current
Agulhas Return Current, mesoscale eddies, poleward heat flux
Name: Ivenis Pita Program / Degree: Meteorology and Website: https://ivenispita.github.io/science_mode/ Email: ivenis.pita@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Gustavo Goni (NOAA AOML), Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Physical Oceanography / PhD
and Dr. Benjamin Kirtman (UM)
Influence of Western Boundary Currents
on Coastal Sea Level
Sea Level, Coastal Variability, Brazil Current,
Hydrography, Physical Oceanography
Name: Snigdha Samantaray Program / Degree: Meteorology and Website: https://snigsam.github.io/ Email: sxs3853@miami.edu Advisor: Brian Mapes Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Physical Oceanography / PhD
Water Vapor Lakes in Western Equatorial Indian Ocean
Tropical Meteorology, Cloud and Convection Processes
Name: Rachel Sampson Program / Degree: Meteorology and Email: ras482@miami.edu Advisor: Lisa Beal Research Topic: Estimating horizontal Research Keywords: Agulhas Current, Mixing, 
Physical Oceanography / PhD
mixing andeddy heat/salt fluxes in the Cape Basin
Physical Oceanography, Lateral Diffusivity, Eddy fluxes
Name: Junfei Xia Program / Degree: Meteorology and Website: http://junfeixia.com Email: junfei.xia@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Tamay M Ozgokmen Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Physical Oceanography / PhD
ML and DL applications in physical oceanography:
interpolation and classification
Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Drifter data;
SAR image classification; Dynamic Systems;
Submesoscale ocean motion
Name: Paloma Cartwright Program / Degree: Applied Marine Physics / PhD Website: https://palomacartwright.github.io/ Email: palomacartwright@earth.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Lisa Beal Research Topic: Florida Current and Sea Level Research Keywords: Sea Level Rise, Physical Oceanography, 
Ocean Heat, Florida Current
Name: Stephan Casey Program / Degree: Ocean Sciences / PhD Email: smc617@miami.edu Advisor: Milan Curcic Research Topic: Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, Research Keywords: Information Theory, 
Causal Induction, and Optimal Design of Experiments
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 Research Keywords: SAR, Satellite, Arctic, Ice Floe, 
Aperture Radar to study the dynamics of
Arctic ice floes over time
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 Research Keywords: Remote Sensing, SAR, 
Ice Feature Extraction and Characterization from
Synthetic Aperture Radar Image
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 Research Keywords: Remote sensing, SAR, 
sea ice using stereo and SAR imagery
stereoscopic, sea ice
Name: Jason Freisen Program / Degree: Ocean Sciences / PhD Email: jaf3457@miami.edu Advisor: Hilary Close Research Topic: Isotopic indicators of marine Research Keywords: organic geochemistry, 
organic matter production, cycling, and export
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 Research Keywords: Marine Microbes; Biogeochemistry; 
the ocean; who and what controls the transfer of energy?
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 Research Keywords: Organic Geochemistry, Isotopes, 
of marine particulate organic matter
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 Research Keywords: Instrumentation developments, 
in the Oxygen Minimum Zones
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 Research Keywords: coastal physics, wave dynamics, 
Driven Waves in Coastal Zones
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 Research Keywords: remote sensing, icebergs, 
of icebergs and their response to wind and currents
using SAR imagery
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, Research Keywords: Organic Sea spray aerosol, 
sea spray aerosol, saharan dust deposition
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 Research Keywords: Coastal resilience, Coastal Engineering, 
by submerged porous breakwaters
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