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Marine Science & Technology

Marine Science & Technology emphasizes societal need-driven research and learning in an interdisciplinary environment. The UMass Dartmouth faculty focuses on observations, modeling, experimentation, and theory in the areas of ocean sciences, ocean technology, and marine policy.

Gavin Fay

Gavin
Fay

Associate Professor

SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 228

Fisheries & Ecosystem Management Lab Website

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Kevin Stokesbury

Kevin
Stokesbury

Dean

SMAST / Administration
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 203

Marine Fisheries Field Research Group Website

Research

Research interests

  • Spatial distributions of marine fishes and invertebrates
  • Marine fishes and invertebrates migrations
  • Marine fishes and invertebrates community structure
  • Marine fishes and invertebrates predator-prey interactions
  • Marine fishes and invertebrates population dynamics and fisheries

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Pingguo He

Pingguo
He

Professor / Chairperson

SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 127

Research

Research interests

  • Sustainable fisheries
  • Fish behavior near fishing gear
  • Environmentally friendly fishing gear design
  • Evaluating and reducing fishing impact

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Steven Cadrin

Steven
Cadrin, PhD

Professor

SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 121

Research

Research interests

  • Fishery Stock Assessment
  • Defining Spatial Fishery Management Units
  • Spatially-Complex Population Dynamics
  • Fishery Management Advice
  • Bycatch Management

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Banafsheh Seyedaghazadeh

Banafsheh
Seyedaghazadeh, PhD

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Science & Engineering 116C

Fluid-Structure Interactions Research Laboratory

Research

Research interests

  • Fluid-Structure Interactions
  • Flow-Induced Vibration
  • Experimental Fluid Dynamics
  • Vibrations
  • Renewable Energy

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Hangjian Ling

Hangjian
Ling, PhD

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Violette Research 214

Research site

Research

Research interests

  • Experimental fluid dynamics in turbulence, boundary layers, multiphase flows
  • Super-hydrophobic surfaces and the wetting dynamics
  • Collective behavior such as bird flocks, fish schools, human crowds and cell colonies
  • 3D Imaging technologies using digital holography and stereo-imaging

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Mehdi Raessi

Mehdi
Raessi, PhD

Professor / Graduate Program Director

Mechanical Engineering
Textiles 226

Raessi Research Group

Research

Research interests

  • Interfacial flows
  • Multi-phase flows with phase change
  • Energy systems (renewable/conventional)
  • Computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer
  • Scientific and High-Performance Computing

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Miles Sundermeyer

Miles
Sundermeyer

Professor

SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
School for Marine Science & Technology West, New Bedford 110A

Research Website

Research

Research interests

  • Small-scale vertical and horizontal mixing processes
  • Dye release and Lagrangian drifter studies
  • Numerical modeling of two- and three-dimensional turbulent flows
  • Numerical modeling of physical and biological interactions

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Diego Bernal

Diego
Bernal, PhD

Professor

Biology
Violette Research 116

Research

Research interests

  • Fish biology
  • Comparative physiology of fishes
  • Comparison of the morphological, physiological, and biochemical specializations of high-performance fishes
  • Fish response to angling-induced stress
  • Disruption to homeostasis in fish

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Erin Bromage

Erin
Bromage, PhD

Professor

Biology
Main 398I

Research

Research interests

  • Antibody production
  • Antibody mediated protection
  • Structure of the antibody
  • Quality of the antibody for pathogen recognition

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Kenneth Oliveira

Kenneth
Oliveira, PhD

Professor

Biology
Violette Research 106

Research

Research interests

  • Biology of fishes with an emphasis on the biology of American eels
  • Life history strategies
  • Age and growth of fishes

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Pia
Moisander, PhD

Professor

Biology
Violette Research 209

Research Website

Research

Research interests

  • Marine microbial ecology
  • Marine nitrogen cycle
  • Marine biofouling

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Pia
Moisander, PhD

Professor

SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
Violette Research 209

Research Website

Research

Research interests

  • Marine microbial ecology
  • Marine nitrogen cycle
  • Marine biofouling

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Robert Drew

Robert
Drew, PhD

Associate Professor

Biology
Violette Research 215

Research

Research interests

  • Genomic and quantitative genetic approaches to investigate adaptations in fish
  • Fish domestication
  • Physiological and genetic changes underlying domestication

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Daniel MacDonald - professor - SMAST, College of Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Daniel
MacDonald, PhD

Professor

SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 233

Research Website

Research

Research interests

  • Environmental Fluid Mechanics
  • Turbulence and Mixing
  • River Plume Dynamics
  • Marine Renewable Energy
  • Environmental Data Collection with Autonomous Vehicles

508-910-6334dmacdonald@umassd.edu

Daniel MacDonald - professor - SMAST, College of Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Daniel
MacDonald, PhD

Professor / Co-Chairperson

Civil & Environmental Engineering
Violette Research 107B

Research Website

Research

Research interests

  • Environmental Fluid Mechanics
  • Turbulence and Mixing
  • River Plume Dynamics
  • Marine Renewable Energy
  • Environmental Data Collection with Autonomous Vehicles

508-910-6334dmacdonald@umassd.edu

Geoffrey Cowles

Geoffrey
Cowles

Associate Professor

SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 218

Research Website

Research

Research interests

  • Marine Renewable Energy
  • Ocean Modeling
  • Shape Optimization and Design
  • High Performance Computing
  • Coupled Marine Bio-Physical Models

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Mehdi Raessi

Mehdi
Raessi, PhD

Professor / Graduate Program Director

Mechanical Engineering
Textiles 226

Raessi Research Group

Research

Research interests

  • Interfacial flows
  • Multi-phase flows with phase change
  • Energy systems (renewable/conventional)
  • Computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer
  • Scientific and High-Performance Computing

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Ryan Beemer

Ryan
Beemer, PhD

Assistant Professor

Civil & Environmental Engineering
Violette Research 220A

Research website

Research

Research interests

  • Offshore Geotechnical Engineering
  • Offshore Foundations and Anchors
  • Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines
  • Calcareous Sediments

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Amit Tandon

Amit
Tandon, PhD

Professor

SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 234

Exploring the Upper Ocean: Tandon Laboratory at UMass Dartmouth

Research

Research interests

  • Fluid dynamics and heat transfer of the ocean, and the engineering tools needed to study them
  • Oceanic sub-mesoscale frontal gradients and mesoscale eddies, and their role in setting up the circulation and the air-sea interaction
  • Theory, simulations, and observational analysis of sub-mesoscale features in the ocean

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Amit Tandon

Amit
Tandon, PhD

Professor

Mechanical Engineering
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 234

Exploring the Upper Ocean: Tandon Laboratory at UMass Dartmouth

Research

Research interests

  • Fluid dynamics and heat transfer of the ocean, and the engineering tools needed to study them
  • Oceanic sub-mesoscale frontal gradients and mesoscale eddies, and their role in setting up the circulation and the air-sea interaction
  • Theory, simulations, and observational analysis of sub-mesoscale features in the ocean

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Changsheng Chen

Changsheng
Chen

Professor & Montgomery Charter Chair

SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 226

Research

Research interests

  • Modeling and observational exploration of coastal ocean circulation
  • Oceanic frontal processes
  • Biological and physical interactions
  • Arctic Ocean and Climate Change
  • Multi-scaling ocean model developments

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Geoffrey Cowles

Geoffrey
Cowles

Associate Professor

SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 218

Research Website

Research

Research interests

  • Marine Renewable Energy
  • Ocean Modeling
  • Shape Optimization and Design
  • High Performance Computing
  • Coupled Marine Bio-Physical Models

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Cynthia Pilskaln

Cynthia
Pilskaln

Professor

SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
School for Marine Science & Technology West, New Bedford 218A

Biogeochemical Particle Flux and Sedimentation Group Website

Research

Research interests

  • Marine biogeochemistry and sedimentology
  • Geochemical particle fluxes in the ocean and large lake systems with emphasis on their quantitative relationship to climate forcing over short and long time scales and to underlying sediment record
  • Organic carbon and biogenic silica cycling including aggregation, export and remineralization processes in the water column and at the sediment/water interface
  • Development and use of particle imaging instrumentation, submersible vehicle-based technology, and image analysis techniques for the in-situ study of marine particulates and plankton

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COE - Depts - ECE - Faculty - Brown - New

David
Brown, PhD

Professor

Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Fall River 123

Research

Research interests

  • Transducer modeling
  • Training of undergraduate and graduate students in engineering acoustics

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COE - Depts - ECE - Faculty - Brown - New

David
Brown, PhD

Professor

Electrical & Computer Engineering
Science & Engineering 214F

Research

Research interests

  • Transducer modeling
  • Training of undergraduate and graduate students in engineering acoustics

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John Buck

John
Buck, PhD

Chancellor Professor

Electrical & Computer Engineering
Dion 324B

Research

Research interests

  • Signal Processing
  • Underwater Acoustics
  • Animal Bioacoustics
  • Engineering Pedagogy

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COE - Depts - ECE - Faculty - Gendron

Paul
Gendron, PhD

Associate Professor

Electrical & Computer Engineering
Science & Engineering 214D

Research

Research interests

  • Adaptive filtering for angle-delay-Doppler spread channels
  • Low probability of detection acoustic communications
  • Magnetic anomaly detection and tracking
  • Seismic event detection and classification

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Yifei Li

Yifei
Li, PhD

Professor

Electrical & Computer Engineering
Science & Engineering 214B

Professor Yifei Li RF Photonics Lab

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Brian Howes

Brian
Howes

Chancellor Professor

SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
School for Marine Science & Technology West, New Bedford 116A

The Coastal Systems Group Website

Research

Research interests

  • Restoration of estuarine nutrient related habitat quality
  • Restoration of salt marshes through tidal enhancement and through Phragmites removal using natural biogeochemical cycles
  • Groundwater nutrient transport & transformation from uplands to coastal waters
  • Relationship between nutrient loading, algal production, oxygen levels and benthic communities in embayments
  • Long-term impact of sea level rise on community structure of wetland ecosystems

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Mark Altabet

Mark
Altabet

Professor / Chairperson

SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
School for Marine Science & Technology West, New Bedford 122A

Isotope Biogeochemistry Group Website

Research

Research interests

  • Major marine biogeochemical cycles
  • Global N cycle and its interactions with climate change
  • Atmospheric CO2 concentration
  • Coastal eutrophication

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Photograph of Sukalyan Sengupta

Sukalyan
Sengupta, PhD

Director

Center for Indic Studies
Violette Research 108C

Research

Research interests

  • Adsorbents and Ion-Exchangers
  • Nutrient Removal and Recovery
  • Reuse of Solid Wastes
  • Wastewater Treatment
  • Water Treatment

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Photograph of Sukalyan Sengupta

Sukalyan
Sengupta, PhD

Professor

Civil & Environmental Engineering
Violette Research 108C

Research

Research interests

  • Adsorbents and Ion-Exchangers
  • Nutrient Removal and Recovery
  • Reuse of Solid Wastes
  • Wastewater Treatment
  • Water Treatment

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Yuegang Zuo

Yuegang
Zuo

Chancellor Professor

Chemistry & Biochemistry
Violette Research 110

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