Team
Current and former members of the research group at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Current Group Members
Part of the WHOI Upper Ocean Processes Group.
Iury Simoes-Sousa
Postdoctoral Scholar
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Yu Gao
Research Associate
Raymond Graham
Senior Engineering Assistant
Ben Hodges
Research Engineer
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Benjamin Greenwood
Engineer
Emerson Hasbrouck
Senior Engineering Assistant
Ersen'S Joseph
Engineer
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Austin Liou
Research Associate
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Jason Smith
Senior Engineering Assistant
Former Group Members
Postdoctoral Scholars
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Nihar Paul
2024–2026
Professor, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India
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LMLeo Middleton 2023–2024 Researcher, University of Gothenburg
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Seth Zippel
2019–2020
Assistant Professor, Oregon State University
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Cesar Rocha
2018–2020
Professor, University of São Paulo
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UZUriel Zajaczkovski 2017–2019 Director of Core Analytics, WTW
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Michael Schlundt
2017–2019
Research Scientist, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
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Viviane Menezes
2016–2017
Assistant Scientist, WHOI
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SDShannon Davis 2015–2016 Wind energy research, U.S. Department of Energy
Graduate Students
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Alec Bogdanoff
Ph.D. 2017
MIT-WHOI Joint Program, co-advised with Carol Anne Clayson — Co-Founder, Brizaga (climate adaptation consulting, Miami)
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EJErsen'S Joseph M.S. 2025 UMass Dartmouth, Mechanical Engineering, co-advised with Amit Tandon — currently an Engineer in the group
Undergraduate Students
- Erica Rosenblum — Summer student, Stony Brook University — now Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
- Roland Ovbiebo — Guest student — now Ph.D. candidate, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
- Weiguang (Roger) Wu — Summer student, UC San Diego — now MIT-WHOI Joint Program
- Viktoriya Balabanova — Internship and senior capstone project, UMass Dartmouth, Physics
- Ersen'S Joseph — Internship and senior capstone project, UMass Dartmouth, Mechanical Engineering
- Steven Akin — Senior capstone project, Angelo State University — now Ph.D. student, University of Miami
- Nath Dossa — Guest student — now Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Miami
- Sourajit Das — Summer student, IIT Kharagpur