Wendell S. Brown

Professor of Marine Science and Technology

Chair, Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences (DEOS)

School for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST)

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Contact: wbrown@umassd.edu ; 508.910.6395

Research interests: coastal ocean dynamics in the Gulf of Maine in terms of the response of the Gulf of Maine to winter storm winds and waves; the mechanisms of exchange rates between the coastal ocean and the interior Gulf; winter mixed layer evolution and Maine Intermediate Water formation in Wilkinson and Jordan Basins; estuarine circulation; and data assimilation ocean modeling in which ocean observations are integrated into coastal ocean models.

Professor Brown is currently DEOS chair in SMAST. His previous academic appointment was in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of New Hampshire, where he was also director of the Ocean Process Laboratory and chair of the UNH Marine Program Executive Committee. He earned his PhD. in Oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Christopher Jakubiak (Chief Engineer)

B.S. (1992) Civil Engineering University of Massachusetts at Lowell
M.S. (2001) Ocean Engineering University of Rhode Island

Research Interests: Operation and optimization of autonomous underwater vehicles, data acquisition and control theory, research and development of autonomous underwater instrumentation and vehicles, underwater acoustics.

Contact:cjakubiak@umassd.edu ; (508) 910 6377

Gustavo Mastrorocco Marques (Graduate Student and Webmaster)

B.S. (2006) Oceanography from the University of Sao Paulo - Sao Paulo, Brazil

Research Interests: Operational oceanography, numerical modeling and observations of physical process in the coastal ocean, real-time data visualization.

Contact: gmarques@umassd.edu ; (508) 910 6308

Shawna King (Graduate Student)

Research Interests:
Contact: u_s1king@umassd.edu ; (508) 910 6308