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
Assistant Professor
SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 228
Research
Research interests
- Developing interdisciplinary modeling approaches to extend the scope of applications for fisheries
- Ecosystem assessment methods
- Testing the performance of decision support tools for living marine resource management
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Kevin Stokesbury
Professor
SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 122
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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N. David Bethoney
Research Assistant Professor
SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography
Research
Research interests
- Applied Research: Resource Assessment and bycatch avoidance
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Pingguo He
Professor
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
Professor
SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 121
Research
Research interests
- Population Dynamics
- Stock Assessment
- Collaborative Research with Fishermen
- Bycatch Estimation and Management
- Spatial Structure of Marine Populations
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Banafsheh Seyedaghazadeh
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Violette Research 214
Research
Research interests
- Fluid-Structure Interactions
- Flow-Induced Vibration
- Experimental Fluid Dynamics
- Vibrations
- Renewable Energy
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Hangjian Ling
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Violette Research 214
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
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Textiles 226
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
Professor
SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
School for Marine Science & Technology West, New Bedford 110A
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
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
Associate Professor
Biology
Science & Engineering 327
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
Professor / Chairperson
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
Associate Professor
Biology
Violette Research 209
Research
Research interests
- Marine microbial ecology
- Diversity, distributions, and activity of marine microbes contributing to nitrogen fixation
- Microbially mediated transformations of nitrogen
- Ecology of toxin-producing cyanobacteria
- Cyanobacterial blooms
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Robert Drew
Associate Professor
Biology
Science & Engineering 328B
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 / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 233
Research
Research interests
- Environmental Fluid Mechanics
- Turbulence and Mixing
- River Plume Dynamics
- Marine Renewable Energy
- Environmental Data Collection with Autonomous Vehicles
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Daniel MacDonald
Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Violette Research 107B
Research
Research interests
- Environmental Fluid Mechanics
- Turbulence and Mixing
- River Plume Dynamics
- Marine Renewable Energy
- Environmental Data Collection with Autonomous Vehicles
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Geoffrey Cowles
Associate Professor
SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 218
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
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Textiles 226
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
Assistant Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Violette Research 220A
Research
Research interests
- Offshore Geotechnical Engineering
- Offshore Foundations and Anchors
- Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines
- Calcareous Sediments
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Amit Tandon
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Science & Engineering 208A
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
Professor
SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
Science & Engineering 208A
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
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
Associate Professor
SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 218
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
Professor
SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
School for Marine Science & Technology West, New Bedford 218A
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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David Brown
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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David Brown
Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Dion 319D
Research
Research interests
- Transducer modeling
- Training of undergraduate and graduate students in engineering acoustics
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John Buck
Chancellor Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Dion 324B
Research
Research interests
- Signal Processing
- Underwater Acoustics
- Animal Bioacoustics
- Engineering Pedagogy
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Paul Gendron
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
Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Science & Engineering 214E
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Brian Howes
Chancellor Professor
SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
School for Marine Science & Technology West, New Bedford 116A
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
Professor
SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
School for Marine Science & Technology West, New Bedford 122A
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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Sukalyan Sengupta
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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Sukalyan Sengupta
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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Yuegang Zuo
Chancellor Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Science & Engineering 325A
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