INSTITUTE OF MARINE & COASTAL SCIENCES - Key Persons

Alex Lopez

al..@marine.rutgers.edu

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Assistant Teaching Professor

Austin Grubb

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Graduate Student

Beatrice Birrer

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Research Staff Member
Research Staff / Senior Program Coordinator
Senior Program Coordinator

Benedetto Schiraldi Jr.

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Environmental Analyst, Philadelphia Water Department

Research interests I find physical oceanography fascinating because of its diverse and interdisciplinary topics such as the impact of ocean temperature variations on fisheries, sea level rise, sea surface winds and waves, ocean surface currents, sea ice, etc. I seek to understand the interactions between Estuary and Coastal systems. In particular, I am interested in how tidally forced saltwater intrusion in Estuaries during extreme droughts could impact the quality of drinking water. I hope to use a combination of field, lab, and numerical methods in investigating the physical dynamics of Estuary and Coastal systems. I am also interested in how freshwater coming from high-latitude -Arctic and Greenland Ice Sheets could be affecting the North Atlantic circulation and how this would impact our climate.

Bob Chant

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Professor

Chant, R. J. 2002. Secondary flows in a region of flow curvature: relationship with tidal forcing and river discharge. Journal of Geophysical Research. 10.1029/2001JC001082, 21 September.

Bridget Ovall

bo..@marine.rutgers.edu

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Graduate Student

Charles Belmonte

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Manager of Information Technology

Charlotte Bramich

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Graduate Student
Master of Operational Oceanography

Chip Haldeman

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Director of Marine Operations, R / V Captain
Research Staff / Director of Marine Operations, R / V Captain

Christopher Camastra

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System Administrator

Cody Benton

co..@marine.rutgers.edu

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Graduate Student

Corday Selden

Costa Vetriani

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Professor

Costa Vetriani is a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology and a member of the Institute of Institute of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, and the director of the Microbiology Undergraduate Program at Rutgers University. He began his research activity in a clinical microbiology lab and, as a PhD student, he was trained as a prokaryotic molecular geneticist. Since 1996 Costa Vetriani participated either as research or chief scientist in over 20 oceanographic expeditions in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, and in the Mediterranean Sea, and dove in the Deep-Submergence Vehicle Alvin many times. Costa Vetriani is a passionate SCUBA diver and underwater photographer. For more information about Costa Vetriani's research, visit the Deep-Sea Microbiology Lab website.

Costantino Vetriani

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Professor

Dale Haidvogel

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Professor Emeritus

Daniel Barone

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Associate Teaching Professor

Dr. Barone is a jointly-appointed Associate Research Professor within the Rutgers University Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (DMCS), Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT), and Department of Geography. He holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Marine Science and Instructional Technology from Stockton University and a PhD in Physical Geography from Rutgers University. Dr. Barone has over 15 years of experience addressing coastal resilience issues related to beach-dune storm vulnerability, maritime transportation, coastal floodplain mapping, and beneficial use of dredged material. He utilizes spatial data analysis, remote sensing, and coastal modeling techniques to solve complex coastal problems and present solutions to various audiences. Dr. Barone is also a Certified Floodplain Manager (CFM) and Geographic Information Systems Professional (GISP).

Danielle Santiago Ramos

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Assistant Professor

Daphne Munroe

dm..@hsrl.rutgers.edu

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Associate Professor

David Aragon

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Research Staff Member
Glider and Marine Engineer
Research Staff

David Bushek

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Professor Director, Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory

Bushek, D. and S.K. Allen, Jr. 1996. Host-parasite interactions among broadly distributed populations of the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica and the protozoan Perkinsus marinus. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 139:127-141.

David Davis

dd..@marine.rutgers.edu

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Graduate Student

My name is David Davis. I was born in Keflavik, Iceland, and raised in Merced, California. I graduated from Georgia State University this spring with a B.S. in geology. While at GSU I was part of a research group that has been participating in the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP). My work focused on trying to identify the links between climate and tectonic changes and how they may have influenced human evolution by analyzing the clays and zeolites from paleolake beds in the East African Rift Valley. During the 2017 and 2018 summers I worked at WHOI, analyzing vanadium isotopes in Martian achondrites and carbonaceous chondrites and eucrites from 4 Vesta. The purpose of this research was to characterize the irradiation history of the early solar system, but also to investigate the production of vanadium in our solar system and to understand how the Earth formed. Research Interest I am now an incoming PhD student and I'll be working with Yair. For now, my project will be studying the Earth's marine and atmospheric iodine cycle. I am curious to know if I can use oceanographic methods and the stable isotopes of iodine to elucidate whether Earth's marine-atmospheric iodine cycle is a detectable biosignature and if it is, can I use that data to assess the habitability of other planets and ocean worlds such as Europa, Enceladus, and maybe Mars.

David Robertson

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Research Programmer
Research Staff / Research Programmer

Debashish Bhattacharya

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Distinguished Professor

Delphine Mossman

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Research Program Coordinator
Research Staff / Research Program Coordinator

Denise Laible Brucato

de..@marine.rutgers.edu

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Department Administrator

Diane K. Adams

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Assistant Professor

Donna Napoli

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Program Coordinator

E.N. Powell

Zhang, P., Haidvogel, D., Powell, E., Klinck, J., Mann, R., Castruccio, F., Munroe, D. 2015. A coupled physical and biological model of larval connectivity in Atlantic surfclams along the Middle Atlantic Bight. Part I: Model development and description. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Sci. 153: 38-53. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2014.11.033