Faculty
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Alex Horner-Devine
Professor, CEE
arhd@u.washington.edu
rivers, estuaries, plumes, sediment transport
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Andy Jessup
Researcher, APL, Professor, CEE, & Affiliate Associate Professor, ME
jessup@apl.washington.edu
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Chris Chickadel
Affiliate Assistant Professor, CEE, & Senior
Principal Oceanographer, APL-UW
chickadel@apl.washington.edu
waves, estuaries, rivers, remote sensing
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Christie Hegermiller
Assistant Professor, CEE
caheg@uw.edu
coastal processes, waves, numerical modeling
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Jim Thomson
Professor, CEE & Researcher, APL
jthomson@apl.washington.edu
waves, turbulence, sea ice
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Melissa Moulton
Researcher, APL, & Affiliate Assistant Professor, CEE
mmoulton@uw.edu
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Morteza Derakhti
Researcher, APL, & Affiliate Assistant Professor, ME + CEE
derakhti@uw.edu
waves, nearshore hydrodynamics and transport, fluid-structure interaction, wave-resolving numerical modeling
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Michelle DiBenedetto
Assistant Professor, ME
mdiben@uw.edu
waves, microplastics, turbulence, biological fluid mechanics
Staff
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Alex De Klerk
Field Engineer, APL
adeklerk@apl.washington.edu
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Joe Talbert
Field Engineer, APL
jtalbert@apl.washington.edu
Graduate Students, Post-Doctorates, and Visitors
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Aurora Leeson
Graduate Student, CEE
auroral@uw.edu
estuarine dynamics, water quality, numerical modeling
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Carlos Abarca
Graduate Student, ME
caa9798@uw.edu
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Lily Nguyen
Graduate Student, CEE
lilyn9@uw.edu
waves, remote sensing
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Dakota Mascarenas
Graduate Student, CEE
dakotamm@uw.edu
coastal and estuarine processes, water quality, Salish Sea
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EJ Rainville
Graduate Student, CEE
erainvil@uw.edu
surfzone dynamics, wave breaking, instrument development
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Eli Schwat
Graduate Student, CEE
elilouis@uw.edu
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Emma Shie Nuss
Graduate Student, CEE
enuss@uw.edu
surfzone dynamics, numerical modeling, coastal processes
Helena Schreder
Graduate Student, ME
hschrede@uw.edu
turbulence, numerical modeling, irregular particles
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Jacob Davis
Graduate Student, CEE
davisjr@uw.edu
waves, hurricanes, instrument development
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Kee Onn Fong
Postdoc, APL
kofong@uw.edu
air-sea gas exchange, active & multiphase flows, turbulence
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Julio Chavez
Graduate Student, ME
jechavez@uw.edu
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Kristin Zeiden
Postdoc, APL
kzeiden@uw.edu
air-sea fluxes, waves, wakes
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Luci Baker
Postdoc, ME
ljbak@uw.edu
ocean surface wind waves, microplastics
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Yingzhong Lou
Graduate Student, CEE
yzlou@uw.edu
plumes, surfzone dynamics, numerical modeling
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Zhihua Zheng
Graduate Student, Oceanography
zhihua@uw.edu
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Ryan Chiu
Graduate Student, CEE
rchiu18@uw.edu
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Walter Torres
Postdoc, APL wtorres@uw.edu wave-driven flows, jets/plumes, numerical modeling
Alireza Zarei
Graduate Student, CEE
azarei@uw.edu
hydrodynamics, waves, numerical modeling
Former EFM Members
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Samuel Brenner
Former Graduate Student, Oceanography
sdbren@uw.edu
sea ice-ocean interaction
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Suneil Iyer
Former Graduate Student, Oceanography
iyersk@uw.edu
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Emily Iseley
Former Field Engineer, APL
eemiseley@uw.edu
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Shelby Ahrendt
Former Graduate Student, CEE
sahrendt@uw.edu
rivers, morphodynamics, flooding
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Christine M Baker
Former Graduate Student, CEE
cmbaker9@uw.edu
waves, currents, surfzone dynamics
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Samantha Fung
Former Graduate Student, CEE
samfung@uw.edu
limnology, biogeochemistry
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Vito Zago
Postdoc, APL
vitozago@uw.edu
- Mika Malila
- Alexis Kaminski
- Lucia Hosekova
- Mia El-Khazen
- Jacob Morgan
- Zhuochen Han
- David Fertitta
- Ruth Branch
- Sam Kastner
- Madison Smith
- Nirnimesh Kumar
- Brad Perfect
- Roxanne Carini
- Raúl Flores Audibert
- Maricarmen Guerra Paris
- Adam Brown
- Seth Zippel
- Maggie McKeon
- Michael Schwendeman
- Anthony Poggioli
- Curtis Rusch
- Dan Nowacki
- Abbas Hooshmand
- J.Paul Rinehimer
- Christopher Bassett
- Yeping Yuan
- Shaun Bevan
- Melyssa Nagamine
- Stefan Talke
- Adam Price
- Maggie Avener
- Greg Curtiss
- Samuel Gooch
- Bronwyn Hayworth
- Emily Spahn
- David Thurman