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Investigating the effect of oil spills
on the environment and public health.
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Funding Source: Year 6-8 Investigator Grants (RFP-V)

Project Roster

Influence of river induced fronts on hydrocarbon transport

24 Research Team Members

Principal Investigator

Villy Kourafalou
University of Miami
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science

Co-Principal Investigator

Oscar Garcia-Pineda
Water Mapping, LLC
Director
Lars Robert Hole
Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Department of Operational Oceanography and Marine Meteorology
Chuanmin Hu
University of South Florida
College of Marine Science

Program Manager / Technical Coordinator

Yanira Blanco
University of Miami
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science

Project Data Point of Contact

HeeSook Kang
University of Miami
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science

Outreach Point of Contact

Villy Kourafalou
University of Miami
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science

Research Scientist

Knut-Frode Dagestad
Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Department of Operational Oceanography and Marine Meteorology
HeeSook Kang
University of Miami
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
Matthieu Le Hénaff
University of Miami
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
Maria Josefina Olascoaga
University of Miami
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
Johannes Røhrs
Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Department of Operational Oceanography and Marine Meteorology
Cecilie Wettre
Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Department of Operational Oceanography and Marine Meteorology

Post-Doc

Ioannis Androulidakis
University of Miami
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
Philippe Miron
University of Miami
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science

Research Staff

Kalan Dawson
University of Miami
Center for Computational Science
Brock Murch
University of South Florida
College of Marine Science

Data Team

Shaojie Sun
University of South Florida
College of Marine Science

GoMRI Scholar

Nektaria Ntaganou
University of Miami
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
Yingjun Zhang
University of South Florida
College of Marine Science

Graduate Student - PhD Level

Shuangling Chen
University of South Florida
College of Marine Science
Nektaria Ntaganou
University of Miami
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
Shaojie Sun
University of South Florida
College of Marine Science
Yingjun Zhang
University of South Florida
College of Marine Science

Graduate Student - Master's Level

Helene Asbjørnsen
University of Bergen
Geophysical Institute
Erin Cover
University of Miami
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
Victor DeAguiar
University of Bergen
Geophysical Institute
Amanda DeCun
University of Miami
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
Rachel Kimmel
University of Miami
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
This research was made possible by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.
www.gulfresearchinitiative.org