SCIENTISTS
Professor Matthew Alford
Professor Drew Lucas
Professor Jennifer MacKinnon
Professor Emeritus Robert Pinkel
Dr. Jerry Smith
Research Oceanographer
Dr. Nicole Couto
Project Scientist
Dr. Zachary Taebel
Postdoctoral Scholar
Dr. Amy Waterhouse
Research Oceanographer
Dr. Effie Fine
Project Scientist
Dr. Gunnar Voet
Research Oceanographer
Dr. Agata Piffer Braga
Postdoctoral Scholar
Dr. Filipe Pereira
Assistant Professor
Dr. Jake DeFilippis
Postdoctoral Scholar
ENGINEERS & TECHNICIANS
Shane Berchtold
Technician
Sara Goheen
Development Engineer
Sean Lastuka
Development Engineer
Gabriela Chavez
Operations Manager
Spencer Kawamoto
Development Engineer
Becca McConnell
Technician
Helen Dufel
Development Engineer
Jonathan Ladner
Development Engineer
Logan Welsh
Development Engineer
Isabella Franco
Development Engineer
San Nguyen
Development Engineer
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Caique Dias-Luko
PhD Candidate
Deena Lang
PhD Student
Andrea Rodriguez-Marin Freudmann
PhD Candidate
Austin Green
PhD Student
Camilla Marcellini
PhD Student
Argen Smith
PhD Student
Caeli Griffin
PhD Student
Giulio Meille
PhD Candidate
Alia Wolken
Masters Student
Ankitha Kannad
PhD Candidate
Grant Meiners
PhD Student
IN MEMORIAM
Dr. Sean Haney,
1987-2021
Students/UNDERGRADUATES/INTERNS
Engineering TEAM Alumni
Mike Goldin, retired and now at Del Mar Oceanographic
Tyler Hughen, now at Del Mar Oceanographic
Riley Baird
Mai Bui, now UCSD
Anthony Aja, retired
Brendan Hall, now at University of Connecticut
Lucie Reymondet, now at SIO
SCIENCE TEAM Alumni
Dr. Kerstin Bergentz
Dr. Charlotte Bellerjeau
Dr. Arnaud LeBoyer, now at INTECHMER in Normandy, France
Dr. Kevin Okun
Dr. Alejandra Sanchez-Rios, now at University of Hawaii
Dr. Yackar Mauzole, now at SIO
Dr. Zoé Caspar-Cohen
Dr. Kelley McBride, now at Mitchell College
Dr. Alex Andriatis, now at MIT
Dr. Devon Northcott, now in Hobart, Tasmania
Dr. Taylor McKie, California Council on Science and Technology Fellow, Sacramento
Dr. Bethan Wynne-Cattanach, now at University of Cambridge, UK
Dr. Ian Stokes, now at Sensseeker
Dr. Noel Gutierrez-Brizuela, now at Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg
Dr. Bofu Zheng, now at WHOI
Dr. Anna Savage, now at Sofar Ocean
Dr. Tamara Schlosser, now at U Tasmania
Dr. Olavo Marques, now at Oregon State University
Dr. Marion Alberty, now at Princeton
Dr. Kate Adams, now at NIWC Pacific
Dr. Ali Mashayek, now at University of Cambridge
Dr. Caitlin Whalen, now at Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington
Dr. Ruth Musgrave, now at Dalhousie University
Dr. Jesse Cusack, now at Oregon State University
Dr. Tyler Hennon, now at University of Alaska Fairbanks
Dr. Maddie Hamann, at Live Pacha
Dr. Kristin Zeiden, now at Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington
Dr. André Palóczy, now at NOC Liverpool
Ascher Ramsay
Jennifer Macaulay
Veronika Michels
Nathan Burdick
Chelwei Jang
Jason Escalera
Eden Detmer
Katreena Gundran
Tobias Hirth