Masters and Ph.D. Thesis
Below are the Masters and Ph.D. theses by students of the Center for Ocean Observing Leadership (Formerly the Coastal Ocean Observation Lab). They are listed in chronological order.
- Joseph Gradone (December 2024) Ph.D: On the dynamics of Caribbean through-flow water mass Transport
- Charlotte Bramich (August 2024) Master of Operational Oceanography: Bottom Water Characterization of Atlantic Surfclam Habitats off New Jersey’s Coast
- Salvatore Fricano (August 2024) Master of Operational Oceanography: The Glider Guidance System (GGS): A model-Guilded Path-Planning Program for Advancing Glider Operations through Depth-Averaged Ocean Currents
- Jesse Noble (August 2024) Master of Operational Oceanography: A Dive into Theorectical Heat Flux of Diffuse Flow Hydrothermal Vent Plumes and Applications to Extraterrestrial Oceans
- Nicholas Occhiogrosso (August 2024) Master of Operational Oceanography: Observing Zooplankton Distribution in Relation to Ocean Conditions in the Mid-Atlantic Bight
- Scott Pescatore (August 2024) Master of Operational Oceanography: Correlating fish tag detections to satellite derived water masses and ocean front gradients
- Trivik Ragha (August 2024) Master of Operational Oceanography: The Mathematical Physics of Marine Particle Aggregation: A Comoputational Exploration of The Smoluchowski Coagulation Equation
- Sophie Scopazzi (August 2024) Master of Operational Oceanography: Sensor and Behavior Frameworks for Implementing Backseat Driver on a Slocum Glider
- Jackie Veatch (July 2024)Ph.D.: Physical Drivers of Food Web Focusing in Marine Ecosystems
- Michael Chen (May 2024) Masters: Spatial and Seasonal Controls on Eddy Subduction in the Southern Ocean
- Jake Zappala (August 2023) Master of Operational Oceanography: Does Prominent Coastal Upwelling along New Jersey Lead to Increases in Offshore Wind Turbine Power Production?
- Yachen Li (August 2023) Master of Operational Oceanography: Estuarine Particle Simulations: The Connection Between Delaware Bay and Offshore Wind Lease Areas
- Rhyan Grech (August 2023) Master of Operational Oceanography: Impacts of Oceanic Conditions on North Atlantic Right Whale Distribution on the Nantucket Shoals
- Bre DiRenzi (August 2023) Master of Operational Oceanography: Biological Response of Spisula Solidissma (Atlantic Surfclams) to Varying Carbonate Chemistry in the Mid-Atlantic Bight
- Emily Busch (August 2023) Master of Operational Oceanography: A Dip in the Pool: Analyzing the Stability Strength of the Mid-Atlantic Cold Pool
- Leslie Birch (August 2023) Master of Operational Oceanography: Dodging Ships: Is New Jersey Traffic a Threat to Underwater Gliders?
- Malarie O’Brien (August 2023) Master of Operational Oceanography: Action Argo: adapting the Argo network to collect actionable data and advance intensity forecasts of storms
- Timothy Stolarz (August 2023) Master of Operational Oceanography: Understanding Ocean Highways: Trends in Surface Current Divergence in Urbanized Coastal Margins for a Predictable Ocean
- Casey Jones (August 2023) Master of Operational Oceanography: Above and Below the Waves: Analysis of Coordinated Surface and Subsurface Autonomous Vehicle Data
- Courtney Dreyfus (August 2023) Master of Operational Oceanography: Aligning the seasonal migrations of North Atlantic Right Whales with oceanic features
- Samuel Coakley (July 2023) Masters: The evolution of a stratified upper ocean under tropical cyclone forcing
- Schuyler Nardelli (January 2022) Ph.D.: Seasonal dynamics of plankton ecology in coastal Antarctica
- Liza Wright-Fairbanks (January 2022) Ph.D.: Observing seasonal cycles, drivers, and potential biological impacts of ocean acidification in the Mid-Atlantic Bight
- Emily Slesinger (January 2022) Ph.D. : Black sea bass physiology and life history in the context of seasonal and long-term climate change
- Ailey Sheehan (October 2021) Master of Operational Oceanography: Developing an Open-Source Analysis Pipeline For a Glider-Based Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler (AZFP)
- Theodore Thompson (September 2021) Master of Operational Oceanography: Best Practices for Sea-Bird Scientific deep ISFET-based pH sensor integrated into a Slocum Webb Glider
- Clifford Watkins (December 2020) Ph.D.: Mixed Layer Dynamics: Exploring the Impacts of Storms in the Mid Atlantic Bight
- Sarah Murphy (December 2020) Masters: Coastal Upwelling and the Offshore Wind Environment
- Julia Engdahl (August 2020) Master of Operational Oceanography: Developing an automated analysis of fish migration video using computer vision algorithms
- Joe Anarumo (July 2020) Master of Operational Oceanography: An Open-Source Software Application for Drifter Trajectory Prediction in the Mid-Atlantic Bight
- Michael Brown (May 2020) Ph.D.: Drivers of phytoplankton dynamics, and corresponding impacts on biogeochemistry, along the West Antarctic Peninsula
- Nicole Couto (September 2017) Ph. D.: Circulation and Heat Transport on the West Antarctic Peninsula Continental Shelf
- Filipa Carvalho (May 2017) Ph. D.: Coupled physical and phytoplankton dynamics in coastal Antarctica
- Nicole Waite (May 2015) Master: The Role of Sediment Sulfide in Seagrass Decline in Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor, NJ
- Greg Seroka (September 2016) Ph. D.: Stratified Coastal Ocean Interactions with Hurricanes and the Sea Breeze in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic
- Travis Miles (March, 2014) Ph. D.: Observations and modeling of the coastal ocean beneath tropical and extra-tropical cyclones
- Yi Xu (January, 2013) Ph.D.: Phytoplankton dynamics studying using observation and bio-physical modeling
- Laura Palamara (May 2011) Masters: Improving models of covariation between marine communities and their habitats by incorporating pelagic features captured by coastal ocean observatories
- Rachel Sipler (October, 2009) Ph.D.: The role of dissolved organic matter in structuring microbial community composition
- Leonard Alexander Kahl, Jr. (October 2008) Ph.D.: Phytoplankton physiology and export flux
- Ramya Ramadurai (October 2008) Masters: Water mass classification using band ratios
- Matthew Oliver (July 2006) Ph.D.: Towards a synthesis of continental shelf dynamics and eukaryotic phytoplankton evolution
- Felisa Lauren Wolfe-Simon (May 2006) Ph.D.: The role and evolution of superoxide dismutases in algae
- Zoe Vanessa Finkel (May 2005) Ph.D.: Physiological bases for environmentally driven changes in phytoplankton community structure
- Louis Bowers (September, 2004) (Written Thesis Part 1) (Written Thesis Part 2) Masters: The Effect of Sea Surface Temperature on New Jersey Sea Breeze Dynamics
- Trisha Bergmann (January, 2004) Ph.D.: The physiological ecology and natural distribution patterns of cryptomonad algae in coastal aquatic ecosystems
- Josh Kohut (June, 2002) Ph.D.: Spatial current structure observed with a calibrated HF-Radar system: the influence of local forcing, stratification, and topography on the inner shelf
- Joe Grzymski (December, 2001) Ecosystem, cellular and sub-cellular dynamics of the marine, diatom plastid
- Richard Styles (May, 1998) Ph.D.: A continental shelf bottom boundary layer model: development, calibration, and applications to sediment transport in the Middle Atlantic Bight
- Michael Crowley (May, 1993) Masters: Monitoring the Gulf Stream: an application of remote sensing and geographic information systems