Name: Cait Collins Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Website: https://www.caitrocks.com/ Email: caitcollins@miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Ben Kirtman Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Climate variability intrinsic to the coupled atmosphere-ocean system and ENSO predictability.
climate variability, ENSO, predictability
Name: Amie Dobracki Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Email: aad59@miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Paquita Zuidema Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Chemical, Physical, and Optical Properties of Aged African Biomass Burning
Biomass burning, Aerosols, Organic Aerosol, Smoke, Aerosol Mass Spectrometer
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: Quinton Lawton Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Website: quintonlawton.com Email: quinton.lawton@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Sharan Majumdar Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Predictability of Tropical Cyclogenesis
tropical cyclones, hurricanes, tropical cyclogenesis, predictability, African easterly waves, kelvin waves
Name: Quinton Lawton Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Website: quintonlawton.com Email: quinton.lawton@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Sharan Majumdar Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Predictability of Tropical Cyclogenesis
tropical cyclones, hurricanes, tropical cyclogenesis, predictability, African easterly waves, kelvin waves
Name: Samantha Nebylitsa Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Email: samantha.nebylitsa@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Sharan Majumdar and Dave Nolan Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Rapid Intensification of Tropical Cyclones
Tropical Cyclones, Rapid Intensification, Wind, Shear, Moisture, Modeling, Observations, Storm Size/Structure
Name: Papazian, Karen Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Email: karen.papazian@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Ben Kirtman Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Climate Variability and Predictability
Variability, Climate, Intraseasonal
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: Rosamond, Luke Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Email: lxr968@miami.edu Advisor: David Nolan Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Convective Gravity Waves in the Stratosphere
Gravity Waves, Supercells, Stratosphere, Numerical Modeling, Convection, Mesoscale Convective Systems
Name: Victoria Schoenwald Program / Degree: Atmospheric Sciences / PhD Email: vks16@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Ben Kirtman Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Sea level rise and coastal flooding events caused by natural and anthropogenic forcing.
Sea level rise, coastal flooding, seasonal to decadal prediction, climate models
Name: Armen Agopian Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. Katharine Mach
Name: Karen Backe Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. Fritz Hanselman
Name: Chelsea Black Program / Degree: Marine Ecosystems and Society / Ph.D. Website: chelsealeighblack.com Email: chelsea.black@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. David Die Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Tracking Marine Megafauna as Ecosystem Sentinels
sharks, biodiversity, megafauna, marine, biodiversity, multispecies
Name: Alex Carbaugh-Rutland Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. Jessica Owley, Dr. Kenny Broad
Name: Alize Carrere Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. Kenny Broad
Name: Mayra Cruz Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. Amy Clement
Name: Jalyse Cuff Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. Katharine Mach
Name: Carlie Dario Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. Renato Molina
Name: Ryan Fochs Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. Fritz Hanselmann
Name: Katie Geddes Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. David Die
Name: Jia Geng Program / Degree: Marine Ecosystems and Society / Ph.D. Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jia-geng Email: jxg570@miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Daniel Benetti Research Topic: Machine Learning for Aquaculture Research Keywords: Aquaculture, Machine Learning
Name: Micaiala Hamner Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. Tyler Harrison
Name: Steven Koller Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. Renato Molina
Name: Carolien Kraan Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policylicy / Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. Katharine Mach
Name: Cristin Mayes Program / Degree: Marine Ecosystems and Society / Ph.D. Email: cristin.mayes@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. David Die Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Fishery Modeling
biology, ecology, mathematics, dynamics, fisheries, modeling
Name: Nkosi Muse Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Email: nkosi.muse@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Katharine Mach Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Equitably improving the preparedness and resilience of cities in the face of climate change.
Climate, resilience, adaptation, equity
Name: Ethan Prall Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. Andrew Baker, Dr. Kenny Broad
Name: Marcus Reamer Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Email: mreamer@earth.miami.edu Advisors: Dr. Catherine Macdonald, Dr. Meryl Shriver-Rice Research Topic: Environmental media and the conservation and management of the North Atlantic right whale Research Keywords: Environmental communication, marine mammal conservation, environmental media, wildlife and biodiversity conservation
Name: M. Jesse Schneider Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. Traci Ardren
Name: Mitchell Rider Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / PhD Email: mitchell.rider@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Neil Hammerschlag Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Understanding movement dynamics of leatherback seaturtles in NW
Atlantic using Satellite Telemetry
Satellite Telemetry, Leatherback Turtles, Movement Ecology
Name: Lynee Turek-Hankins Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Website: https://climateprep.rsmas.miami.edu/people/lynee-turek-hankins/index.html Email: lturek@miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Katharine Mach Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Equitable policies that promote climate adaptation at the housing-energy-built environment nexus
climate adaptation, built environment, extreme heat, energy and environmental justice, complex systems,
climate policy, community engaged research
Name: Matthew Varkony Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / PhD Email: mvarkony@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Renato Molina Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Intersection between society and climate change. Specifically distributional impacts of disasters
Income Inequality, Extreme Events, Disasters, Economics, Poverty, Development
Name: Eddie Wintergalen Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. Renato Molina
Name: Jeneva Wright Program / Degree: Environmental Science and Policy / Ph.D. Email: jeneva.wright@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Fritz Hanselmann Research Topic: Research Keywords:
climate change impacts to shipwrecks
underwater archaeology, climate change, potentially polluting shipwrecks, corrosion
Name: Emily Yeager Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Email: emily.yeager@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Andrew Baker Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Coral-algal symbiosis and dysbiosis
Coral, algae, symbiosis, bleaching, marine environment, symbiont availability
Name: Anthony Bonacolta Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Website: https://twitter.com/AMBonacolta Email: anthony.bonacolta@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Javier del Campo Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Microbial Ecology
Marine Microbial Ecology, Microbiology, Metagenomics
Name: Allyson DeMerlis Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Website: https://allysondemerlis.weebly.com, https://twitter.com/allydemerlis Email: allyson.demerlis@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Nikki Traylor-Knowles Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Molecular mechanisms of coral resilience to environmental stress
and resistance to disease
Molecular biology, reef restoration, genomics, coral disease
Name: Caroline Dennison Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Email: caroline.dennison@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Andrew Baker Research Topic: Coral-algal symbiosis and disease implications Research Keywords: coral reef ecology, coral, symbionts, Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease
Name: Moritz Ehrlich Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Website: @EhrlichMo (Twitter) Email: moritz.ehrlich@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Marjorie Oleksiak Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Within-generation adaptation to ecological niches in Atlantic killifish
Genomics, Evolutionary Biology, Molecular Ecology, Population Genetics,
Natural Selection, Physiology, Fundulus heteroclitus
Name: LeeAnn Frank Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Email: leeann.frank@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Martin Grosell Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Metabolic cost of osmoregulation in teleost fish<
Osmoregulation, metabolism, teleost, fish physiology, toadfish, environmental physiology
Name: Katherine Hardy Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherine-hardy-656520210 Email: katherine.hardy@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Andrew Baker Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Coral reproduction and juvenile resilience
Climate change, coral reproduction, resilience, cryopreservation, assisted evolution, symbiosis
Name: Kelsey Johnson-Sapp Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Website: linkedin.com/in/kelsey-johnson-sapp-960b5a75/ Email: kej31@miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Andrew Baker Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Leveraging natural genetic dynamics to enhance coral restoration strategies
Coral, Coral Reef, Coral Restoration, Coral Ecology, Coral Genetics
Name: Richard Karp Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Email: rkarp@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Andrew Baker Research Topic: Coral resilience and adaptation Research Keywords:
Coral, genetics, transcriptomics, stress hardening, stress tolerance,
symbiont communities
Name: Patrick Kiel Program / Degree: Marine Biology and 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 Research Keywords:
ecology
coral reefs, ecology, biophysics, engineering, restoration, ocean acidification, translational ecology
Name: McGuigan, Charles Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Email: cjm240@miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Daniel Benetti Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Investigating the ontogeny of the American Red Snapper, Lutanus campechanus
Red snapper, aquaculture, larval development, metabolics
Name: Emma Pontes Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-pontes-97b492141/ Email: e.pontes1@umiami.edu Advisor: Dr. Chris Langdon Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Examining how low oxygen conditions affect coral physiology, especially in
combination with other stressors like increased temperature and reduced pH.
coral, ecology, ocean acidification, hypoxia, climate change, Acropora cervicornis
Name: Marissa Rykowski Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Email: m.rykowski@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Beth Babcock Research Topic: My dissertation focuses on anthropogenic effects, mainly bycatch, on the Research Keywords: oggerhead sea turtle, population dynamics, bycatch, Gulf of Mexico
loggerhead sea turtle.
Name: Bradley Weiler Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Email: bweiler@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Javier del Campo Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Marine microbiomes and coral disease
microbiome, pathobiome, coral, next-generation sequencing,
culturing, SSU rRNA
Name: Adrianne Wilson Program / Degree: Marine Biology and Ecology / PhD Email: adrianne.wilson@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Babcock Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Age and Growth of Lane Snapper
Fish Population Structure, Quantitative Fisheries Ecology, Age and Growth, Stock Assessment,
Ecosystem Based Management
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: Anna Bakker Program / Degree: Marine Geosciences / PhD Email: annabakker@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Sam Purkis Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Remote sensing of coral reefs
remote sensing; coral reefs; spatial maps; resilience index
Name: Anna Ling Program / Degree: Marine Geology and Geophysics / PhD Website: alingrsmas.wordpress.com Email: a.ling@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Gregor Eberli Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Influence of Ocean Currents on Carbonate Platform Drowning
Ocean Currents, Nutrients, Carbonate, Platform Drowning, Phosphorus,
Nitrogen, Microfacies
Name: Cecilia Lopez-Gamundi Program / Degree: Marine Geosciences / PhD Email: Cecilia.Lopez-Gamundi@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Sam Purkis Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Sediment budget and hydrodynamics of the Great Bahama Bank
Carbonate sedimentology, sediment transport, hydrodynamics, Great Bahama Bank,
remote sensing
Name: Valeria Turino Program / Degree: Marine Geosciences / PhD Email: valeria.turino@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Adam Holt Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Numerical modeling of subduction zones
subduction zones, subduction dynamics, geodynamics, numerical modeling
Name: Elizabeth Vinarski Program / Degree: Marine Geology and Geophysics / PhD Email: ekv5@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Guoqing Lin Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Seismicity of Kilauea 2020 Eruption
seismicity, hawaiian vulcanism, earthquake relocation, forecasting
Name: Brooke Vitek Program / Degree: Marine Geology and Geophysics / PhD Email: brooke.vitek@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. R. Pamela Reid Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Multiscale Morphogenesis of Hamelin Pool Stromatolites
Stromatolites, geobiology, petrography, remote sensing, morphometric analysis
Name: Simge Bilgen Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Email: sbilgen@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Benjamin Kirtman Research Topic: Research Keywords:
The Role of Ocean Eddies in the Southern Ocean Response to Greenhouse Gas Forcing
Coupled Modeling, Air-Sea Interaction, Southern Ocean
Name: Leah Chomiak Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Email: leah.chomiak@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Denis Volkov (NOAA AOML), and Dr. Benjamin Kirtman (UM) Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Large-Scale Ocean Circulation, Repeat Hydrography, Ocean-Atmosphere Climate Dynamics
Circulation, Hydrography, Oceanography, Physical, Climate, Climate change
Name: Jimmy Ge Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Email: jimmy.ge@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. David Nolan Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Relative humidity evolution during tropical cyclogenesis
Hurricanes, tropical cyclogenesis, relative humidity, satellite meteorology,
remote sensing
Name: Chong Jia Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Email: chong.jia@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Peter J Minnett Research Topic: Improved Satellite Remote Sensing of Sea Surface Temperature at High Latitude Research Keywords: Satellite Remote Sensing, SST, Algorithm, Arctic
Name: Lev Looney Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Email: lbl21@miami.edu Advisor: Gregory Foltz (NOAA AOML), and Dr. Benjamin Kirtman (UM) Research Topic: Research Keywords:
The driving forces of hurricane-induced ocean cooling
Hurricanes, Tropical Cyclones, Air-Sea Interactions, Physical Oceanography, Numerical Modeling
Name: Yueyang Lu Program / Degree: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography / PhD Website: https://yueyanglu.github.io/ Email: yueyang.lu@miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Igor Kamenkovich Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Mesoscale eddy-induced transport in the ocean: significance, mechanism, and parameterization
Oceanic eddies, tracer transport, numerical models, parameterization
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: Research Keywords:
Influence of Western Boundary Currents on Coastal Sea Level
Sea Level, Coastal Variability, Brazil Current, Hydrography, Physical Oceanography
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: Research Keywords:
Machine Learning for Submesoscale Characterization, Ocean Prediction, and Exploration
Machine Learning; Drifter; Submesoscale; Modeling; Ocean Prediction
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: Hanjing Dai Program / Degree: Applied Marine Physics / PhD Email: hdai@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Brian Haus Research Topic: Wind waves, their generation and propagation on the ocean surface. Research Keywords: Air-sea interaction, Wind waves, Surface oil transport, Gravity-capillary
waves, Ocean surface roughness
Name: Madeleine Dawson Program / Degree: Ocean Sciences / PhD Email: madeleine.dawson@rsmas.miami.edu Website: https://www.madeleinedawsonphd.com/ Advisor: Dr. Hans Graber Research Topic: Machine Learning Sea Ice Feature Extraction and Characterization from Synthetic Research Keywords: Remote Sensing, SAR, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Machine Learning
Aperture Radar Image
Name: Hope Elliott Program / Degree: Ocean Sciences / PhD Email: hee21@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Cassandra Gaston Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Nutrient deposition in the marine environment from aerosols/mineral dust
mineral dust, Saharan dust, iron limitation, phosphorus limitation, aerosol chemistry, geochemistry
Name: Lillian Henderson Program / Degree: Ocean Sciences Email: lillian.henderson@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Hilary Close Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Origin and transformations of organic matter in the water column
Biogeochemistry, stable isotopes, particulate organic matter, carbon and nitrogen cycling
Name: Gabrielle Ricche Program / Degree: Applied Marine Physics / PhD Email: gxr544@miami.edu Advisor: Dr. 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: Peisen Tan Program / Degree: Ocean Sciences / PhD Email: peisen.tan@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Brian Haus Research Topic: Air-sea interaction and momentum transfer Research Keywords: Air-Sea Interaction, Waves, Coastal Resilience, Physical Oceanography,
Experimental Physics
Name: Paul Wojtal Program / Degree: Ocean Sciences / PhD Email: paul.wojtal@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Hilary Close Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Amino acid compound specific isotope analysis of organic material in the water column
Nutrient cycling, biogeochemistry, isotopes, nitrogen, carbon, organic matter
Name: Elizabeth Yanuskiewicz Program / Degree: Ocean Sciences / PhD Email: e.yanuskiewicz@rsmas.miami.edu Advisor: Dr. Hilary Close Research Topic: Research Keywords:
Composition and transformation of particulate organic matter in the
water column.
Biogeochemistry, naturally occurring stable isotopes, organic matter