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Investigating the effect of oil spills
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Funding Source: Year 2-4 Consortia Grants (RFP-I)

Project Member Institutions

Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE)

Consiglio Nazionale delle Riceche

ISMAR Istituto di Scienze Marine/Arsenale

Annalisa Griffa
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead

Delft University of Technology

Department of Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Adrianus Reniers
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead

Deltares

Bert Jagers
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead

Duke University

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Omar M. Knio
Research Scientist

Florida International University

Department of Earth and Environment

Ping Zhu
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead

Florida State University

Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science

William Kurt Dewar
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead
Ashley Stroman
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Nicolas Wienders
Research Scientist

Haverford College

Department of Chemistry

Sarah J. Harrison
Undergraduate Student
Shelby L. Lyons
Undergraduate Student

Louisiana State University

Department of Environmental Sciences

Puspa Adhikari
Graduate Student - Master's Level

Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences

Somiddho Bosu
Graduate Student - Master's Level

Naval Postgraduate School

Oceanography Department

Jamie MacMahan
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead

Naval Research Laboratory at Stennis Space Center

Ocean Dynamics and Prediction Branch

Charlie Barron
Research Scientist
Brent Paul Bartels
Research Scientist,
Data Team
Tim Campbell
Research Scientist
Emanuel Coelho
Task Co-Lead,
Research Scientist
Kacey Edwards
Research Scientist
Patrick J. Hogan
Task Co-Lead,
Research Scientist
Gregg A. Jacobs
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Lead,
Task Data Contact
Paul Martin
Research Scientist
Philip Muscarella
Research Scientist
Hans Ngodock
Research Scientist
Travis Smith
Research Scientist
Max Yaremchuk
Research Scientist

Ocean Sciences Branch

Paul Evans
Research Scientist
Clark Rowley
Research Scientist
Scott Smith
Research Scientist
Peter Spence
Research Scientist
Mozheng Wei
Research Scientist

Oceanography Division

Sylvia Gremes-Cordero
Research Scientist
Bob Helber
Research Scientist

North Carolina State University

Department of Civil, Construction, & Environmental Engineering

Nova Southeastern University

Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography

Cayla Dean
Research Staff,
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - Master's Level
Bryan Hamilton
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - Master's Level
Naoko Kurata
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - Master's Level
Michael McGauley
Research Scientist
Matt Silvia
Research Scientist
Alexander V. Soloviev
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead
Katie Vella
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - Master's Level

Tendral LLC

Ashwanth Srinivasan
Task Co-Lead,
Research Scientist

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences

Darek Bogucki
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead
Fabio Lekecinskas
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - PhD Level

The City University of New York - College of Staten Island

Department of Mathematics

Andrew C. Poje
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead

The University of Texas at Austin

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Clint N. Dawson
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead
Adnan Muhammad
Graduate Student - PhD Level

Institute for Computational Engineering and Science

Hamidreza Arabshahi
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Craig Michoski
Research Scientist

Tulane University

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Alvaro Fernandez
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Matthew Pendergraft
Graduate Student - Master's Level
Cyndhia Ramachandirane
Graduate Student - Master's Level
Elizabeth Williams
Graduate Student - PhD Level

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Alexander Ameen
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - Master's Level

University of Arizona

Department of Mathematics

Nusret Balci
Post-Doc
Darin Comeau
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Juan M. Restrepo
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead
Steven Rosenthal
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Shankar C. Venkataramani
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead

University of Delaware

College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment

Mohamed Sulman
Research Scientist

School of Marine Science and Policy

Helga S. Huntley
Co-Principal Investigator,
Project Data Point of Contact,
Task Co-Lead
Albert Denny Kirwan
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead
Bruce L. Lipphardt
Co-Principal Investigator,
Project Data Point of Contact,
Task Lead,
Task Co-Lead,
Task Data Contact

University of Miami

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Daniel Espinal
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Ge-Chenga Zha
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead

Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science

Francisco Javier Beron-Vera
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead
Laura Bracken
Outreach Point of Contact
Shuyi Chen
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Lead,
Task Data Contact
Sharon Chinchilla
Program Manager / Technical Coordinator
Milan Curcic
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Mark A. Donelan
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead
Matthew Gough
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Brian Haus
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Lead,
Task Data Contact
Angelique C. Haza
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead
Julie Holleneck
Program Manager / Technical Coordinator,
Outreach Point of Contact
Mohamed Iskandarani
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Lead,
Task Data Contact
Lucas Laurindo
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Nathan Laxague
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Arthur Mariano
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead
Maria Josefina Olascoaga
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead
Lisa Pitman
Outreach Team
Ed Ryan
Research Staff
Conor Smith
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - PhD Level
W. Carlisle Thacker
Research Scientist
Shitao Wang
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Tamay M. Özgökmen
Principal Investigator

University of South Florida

College of Marine Science

Brad Rosenheim
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead

University of Southern Mississippi

Division of Marine Science

Valerie Cruz
Graduate Student - Master's Level
Hannah Roberts
Graduate Student - Master's Level
Samantha Wheeler
Undergraduate Student
This research was made possible by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.
www.gulfresearchinitiative.org