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Instructor Information

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Franz Hover (Fall)

Senior Lecturer

Interest Areas

  1. Robotic inspection of underwater structures
  2. Design of coordinated ocean sensing systems
  3. Design methods for complex marine systems

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Thomas Peacock (Fall)

Professor

Interest Areas

  1. Deep-Sea Mining
  2. Environmental Fluid Dynamics
  3. Physical Oceanography

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Nicholas Makris (Fall)

Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering; Director of the Center for Ocean Engineering; Director of the Laboratory for Undersea Remote Sensing

Interest Areas

  1. Physics of Sensing, Imaging and Perception; Acoustics; Statistical Estimation in Sensing
  2. Ocean Exploration; Undersea Remote Sensing of Marine Life and Geophysical Phenomena; Ocean Ecology, Group Behavior
  3. Wave Propagation and Scattering Theory in Remote Sensing through Random Media and Waveguides; Polar and Icy Satellite exploration; Musical Instrument Acoustics and Evolution

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J Kim Vandiver (Spring)

Dean for Undergraduate Research

Interest Areas

  1. Flow-induced vibration of large marine structures
  2. The role of damping in control of vibration
  3. Design for the developing world

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Dick Yue (Spring)

Philip J. Solondz (1948) Professor

Interest Areas

  1. Wave hydrodynamics in the ocean and coastal environment
  2. Fluid mechanics of turbulent and two-phase flows at the air-sea interface
  3. Dynamics of ships, underwater vehicles and offshore structures