MARINE - Key Persons


Adam Kustka

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Alex Lopez

Job Titles:
  • Master of Operational Oceanography ( MOO ) Degree Program Director

Alexandria Ambrose

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Alice Jenks

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Anthony J. Broccoli

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor

Beatrice Birrer

Job Titles:
  • Research Staff Member
  • Research Staff / Senior Program Coordinator
  • Senior Program Coordinator

Becca Horwitz

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Benedetto Schiraldi Jr.

Job Titles:
  • Environmental Analyst, Philadelphia Water Department

Benedict Borer

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Benson Ossai

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student
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

Job Titles:
  • 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.

Bodhi Fox

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Master of Operational Oceanagraphy
  • Master of Operational Oceanography

Brian Buckingham

Job Titles:
  • Research Staff Member
  • Glider Technician
  • Master of Operational Oceanography

Bridget Ovall

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Charles Belmonte

Job Titles:
  • Information Technology Manager of Information Technology
  • Manager of Information Technology

Chip Haldeman

Job Titles:
  • Director of Marine Operations, R / V Captain
  • Research Staff / Director of Marine Operations, R / V Captain

Christopher Camastra

Job Titles:
  • System Administrator
  • Information Technology

Clayton Smith

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Master of Operational Oceanagraphy
  • Master of Operational Oceanography

Cody Benton

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Corday Selden


Costa Vetriani

Job Titles:
  • 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

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Dale Haidvogel

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Daniel Barone

Job Titles:
  • 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

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Daphne Munroe

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

David Aragon

Job Titles:
  • Research Staff Member
  • Glider and Marine Engineer
  • Research Staff

David Bushek

Job Titles:
  • 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

Job Titles:
  • 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

Job Titles:
  • Research Programmer
  • Research Staff / Research Programmer

Debashish Bhattacharya

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor

Delphine Mossman

Job Titles:
  • Research Program Coordinator
  • Research Staff / Research Program Coordinator

Denise Laible Brucato

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Staff Member
  • Department Administrator

Diane K. Adams

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Donna Napoli

Job Titles:
  • 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

Elias J Hunter

Job Titles:
  • Scientist II

Elisabeth Sikes

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor

Enrique Curchitser

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Ethan Handel

Job Titles:
  • Lead HF - Radar Operator

Felisa Wolfe-Simon

Job Titles:
  • Senior Scientist, Sapphire Energy, Inc

Fernando Pareja

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor

Fiorella Prada

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Fred Grassle

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Gail Ashley

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus / Distinguished Professor

Gary Taghon

Job Titles:
  • Professor

George McGhee

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus

Grace Saba

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Hails Tanaka

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Heidi Fuchs

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Hernan Arango

Job Titles:
  • Research Staff Member
  • Research Programmer

Hugh Roarty

Job Titles:
  • Director of CODAR

Isabella Moore

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

James D. Wright

Job Titles:
  • Professor

James Kim

Job Titles:
  • Research Project Assistant
  • Research Staff / Research Project Assistant

James R. Miller

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Janice McDonnell

Job Titles:
  • Science Engineering

Jason Seiple

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student
  • Master of Operational Oceanography

Javier Zavala-Garay

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Jessey Kreinik

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Jessica Leonard

Job Titles:
  • Master of Operational Oceanography
  • Research Project Assistant

Joe DiDomenico

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student
  • Master of Operational Oceanography

John Dighton

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus

John Kerfoot

Job Titles:
  • Lead Software Developer

John Reinfelder

Job Titles:
  • Professor

John Wiedenmann

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

John Wilkin

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Johnny Lin

Job Titles:
  • Unit Computing Specialist

Jolie Tosten

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Joseph Gradone

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Josh Kohut

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Juan A. Bonachela

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Judy Grassle

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Julia Engdahl

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student
  • Laboratory Researcher

Julia Levin

Job Titles:
  • Associate Research Professor

Julia Rieke Hagemann

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher Geochemistry & Paleoclimatology

Karen G. Bemis

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor

Karen McGowan

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Staff Member
  • Business Specialist

Karl Nordstrom

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Kay Bidle

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Kaycee Coleman

Job Titles:
  • Research Staff Member
  • Research Project Coordinator

Kayla Cayemittte

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student / Lab Technician

Kenneth Miller

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor

Kenneth W. Able

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Kim Thamatrakoln

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Job Titles:
  • Research Staff Assistant
  • Staff Associate

Laura Nazzaro

Job Titles:
  • Data Analyst
  • Programmer

Lauren Cook

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Leah Hopson

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Lee Kerkhof

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Lisa Auermuller

Job Titles:
  • Research Staff Member
  • Administrative Director - Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub

Logan Gonzalez

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Lois Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Lora McGuinness

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Staff Member
  • Facilities Specialist

Lori Garzio

Job Titles:
  • Research Analyst

Lucy Lettini

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Staff Member
  • Associate Director

Madeline Gazzale

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Staff Member
  • Business Specialist Supervisor

Marine Extension

Job Titles:
  • Agent, Dept of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Matt Oliver

Job Titles:
  • Principle Chemist at Entegris

Matteo Selci

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Matthew Learn

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Master of Operational Oceanography
  • Master of Operational Oceanography

Max Gorbunov

Job Titles:
  • Associate Research Professor

Max Häggblom

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor

Michael Crowley

Job Titles:
  • Research Staff Member

Michael J. Kennish

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Michael Smith

Job Titles:
  • Data Analyst
  • Programmer

Mitaali Taskar

Job Titles:
  • Research Project Assistant

Mya Sharpe

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Natalie Umling

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor

Nicole Waite

Job Titles:
  • Laboratory Researcher

NJ Watershed

Job Titles:
  • Ambassador

Norbert P. Psuty

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Oscar Schofield

Job Titles:
  • Department Chair

Patty Gillen

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Staff Member
  • Senior Administrative Assistant

Paul Coyne

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Paul Falkowski

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor

Paul Summers

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Peter A. Rona

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Peter E. Smouse

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor

Rachel Sipler

Job Titles:
  • Flow Cytometry Field Application Scientist for ThermoFisher Scientific

Rebecca Jackson

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Richard A. Lutz

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor

Rob Sherrell

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Robert Kopp

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Samantha Alaimo

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Sasha Tozzi

Job Titles:
  • Researcher, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Scott Glenn

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor

Silke Severmann

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Program Director

Suman Shekhar

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Susan E. Ford

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Talia Barry

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Teemer Barry

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Thomas Grothues

Job Titles:
  • Director of RUMFS

Timothy Stolarz

Job Titles:
  • Laboratory Researcher

Travis Miles

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Trisha Bergmann

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Specialist, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Venkatesh Chinni

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher Biogeochemistry

Vince Clementi

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher Paleoceanography

Ximing Guo

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor

Yair Rosenthal

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Program Director

Zhenwei Wang

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Zoe Finkel

Job Titles:
  • Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University