chadwell

Acoustic Geodesy

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Dave Chadwell is an Associate Research Geophysicist in the Marine Physical Lab He received a B.S. in Civil Engineering and Ph.D. in Geodesy from the Ohio State University. His research interests are tectonic plate interactions at undersea boundaries, combining underwater acoustic and GPS measurement technologies, and GPS-based meteorological measurements. Dave serves on the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Marine Operations Committee and is Chair of the IEEE-Ocean Engineering Society Technical Committee on Communications, Navigation, and Positioning.



constable

Marine EM Research

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Steven Constable received his Ph.D. in geophysics from the Australian National University and is now a Professor in Residence at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. He is interested in all aspects of electrical conductivity and has made contributions to inverse theory, electrical properties of rocks, mantle conductivity, magnetic satellite induction studies, global lightning, and instrumentation. His main focus is marine electromagnetic methods including the commercialization of marine EM for hydrocarbon exploration. Steven served as an associate editor for Geophysics, as a section secretary and corresponding editor for the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and he received the G.W. Hohmann award in 2003. He is a member of AGU, the European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, the Royal Astronomical Society, and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.



cornuelle

Physical Oceanography

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Bruce Cornuelle is a Researcher in Physical Oceanography at the University of California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and is Director of the Physical Oceanography Research Division. He obtained his B.A. from Pomona College, Claremont, California and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (MIT-WHOI) Joint Program in Physical Oceanography, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bruce has longstanding interests in acoustic imaging of ocean structure and the use of methods from control theory to combine dynamical constraints from ocean models with observations. He spends several weeks a year at sea, most recently in the Mediterranean, doing experiments with acoustic tomography between vertical arrays. He is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and a recipient of the Medwin Prize in Acoustic Oceanography.



davis

Physical Oceanography

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Russ Davis is a Chemical Engineer with a B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University.  Russ joined the Scripps Institution of Oceanography as an Assistant Research Geophysicist and was a Professor of Oceanography prior to his current role as Research Oceanographer.  His research interests center on sustained observations of ocean climate and bio-physical interactions using autonomous vehicles, including profiling floats such as those used in the Argo program, and underwater gliders like the ‘Spray’ vehicle developed at Scripps.  From 1994 through 2006, Russ served as the Director for the Consortium on the Ocean's Role in Climate.  He is a member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Meteorological Society.  Russ is the recipient of the A.G. Huntsman Award, the Henry Stommel Medal, and the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO) Albert I Medal. In 2006, Russ was the David Packer Distinguished Speaker.  



dspain

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)-based Repeat Bathymetry Mapping

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Gerald D’Spain is an Associate Research Geophysicist and Lecturer for the Marine Physical Laboratory at the University of California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He obtained his A.B. in Statistics and his M.A. in Geophysics from the University of California at Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in Oceanography from the University of California at San Diego. Gerald’s research interests include studies of seafloor processes relevant to geohazards, development of novel autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) technology and use of AUVs in ocean data collection, properties of underwater acoustic and seismic wave-fields; simultaneous measurements of acoustic particle velocity, acoustic pressure and acoustic strain rate; ocean and atmospheric infrasonic propagation; ocean ambient noise; invariants of waveguide propagation; biological sounds (marine mammal vocalizations and fish choruses); and synthetic apertures in the ocean. He was a member of the 2003 National Academy of Sciences committee investigating the potential impact of man-made sound on the ocean environment and a member of the ranging subcommittee of the Signal Processing Working Group evaluating sonar signal and array processing algorithms for transition to the U.S. Navy. Gerald is a member of the Acoustical Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, IEEE, and Sigma Xi.



melville

Physical Oceanography

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Ken Melville, a native of Australia, joined the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography as a researcher in 1977. In 1980 he accepted a Professorship in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and participated in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (MIT-WHOI) Joint Program in Physical Oceanography, eventually serving as the Director of the Joint Program in Oceanographic Engineering.  In 1992, he returned to Scripps as a Professor of Oceanography, conducting research through the Marine Physical Laboratory and the Physical Oceanography Research Division. He served as Chair of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Graduate Department, and in 2006 was appointed Deputy Director for Research.  Dr. Melville is a Guggenheim fellow, and a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and the American Physical Society.  He has served on a number of national advisory and review panels in the areas of oceanography, remote sensing, naval hydrodynamics, and ocean engineering. 



russell

Bounding Aerosol Uncertainties for Climate Change

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Lynn M. Russell is a Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.  Her research interests are in aerosol evolution, composition, and dynamics in the troposphere.  Dr. Russell received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering and A.B. in International Relations from Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology.



terrill

Physical Oceanography

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With a B.S. in Engineering and a Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography, Eric Terrill directs the Coastal Observing Research & Development (CORD) Center at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.  Under Terrill’s direction, the CORD Center focuses their science and technology, research and development efforts on solutions to problems in the coastal environment.  Terrill’s research focuses on coastal circulation and the merger of ocean sciences with technology development, including the development of regional coastal observing sensor networks used for science and operational decision-making. He leads funded research programs in coastal circulation, water quality, acoustical oceanography, naval hydromechanics, and air sea interaction processes, particularly surface waves and wave breaking (including those within hurricanes).  Sensor development, and the use of various observing platforms, (including autonomous platforms, remote sensing, ocean moorings, and vessel operations) are integral to his research. 



zumberge

Fiber Optic Seafloor Strainmeter (FOSS)

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Mark Zumberge has worked at Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics since 1982. Currently he is a Research Geophysicist and Senior Lecturer. He received a B.S. in Physics from the University of Michigan in 1976, and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Colorado in 1981. His early research was in absolute gravity, when he co-developed a free-fall interferometric absolute gravity meter with James Faller at JILA, the University of Colorado. Since then a number of his projects in geophysical instrument development have ensued.