DOCTORAL AND MASTERS COMMITTEES

Currently Ph.D. advisor to:

Mr. Anthony Wilson, Climate Sciences, SIO (2021-present)

Formerly Ph.D./M.S./M.A.S. advisor to:

Dr. Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Climate Sciences, SIO (Ph.D. 2003): Full Professor, Brown University Dr. Hyodae Seo, Climate Sciences, SIO (Ph.D. 2007): Associate Scientist with Tenure, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Dr. Hey-Jin Kim, Climate Sciences, SIO (Ph.D. 2008): Programmer/Analyst, SIO Dr. Hajoon Song, Climate Sciences, SIO (Ph.D. 2011): Assistant Professor, Yonsei University, South Korea Dr. Aneesh Subramanian, Climate Sciences, SIO (Ph.D. 2012): Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Dr. Dian Putrasahan, Climate Sciences, SIO (Ph.D. 2012): Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg Dr. Linghan Li, Physical Oceanography, SIO (Ph.D. 2013): Analytic Scientist, FICO, San Diego, CA Dr. Lauren Freeman, Climate Sciences, SIO (Ph.D. 2013): Scientist, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI Dr. Nicholas Cavanaugh, Climate Sciences, SIO (Ph.D. 2014): Founder, Sensible, Los Angeles, CA Dr. Michael DeFlorio, Climate Sciences, SIO (Ph.D. 2015): Research Analyst, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), SIO Dr. Jonathan Eliashiv, Climate Sciences, SIO (Ph.D. 2019): Climate Scientist, Sensible, Denver, CO Dr. Dillon Amaya, Climate Sciences, SIO (Ph.D. 2019): Research Physical Scientist, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO Dr. Daniela Faggiani Dias, Climate Sciences, SIO (Ph.D. 2020): Assistant Project Scientist, Carbon Removal Initiative (CRI), SIO Dr. Osinachi Ajoku, Climate Sciences, SIO (Ph.D. 2020): Assistant Professor, Howard University, Washington, DC Dr. Meredith Fish, Climate Sciences, SIO (Ph.D. 2020): Senior Data Scientist (Climate Analytics), McKinsey & Company, Denver, CO Dr. Nathali Cordero Quiros, Climate Sciences, SIO (Ph.D. 2020): Postdoctoral Researcher, UC, Santa Cruz Dr. Momme Hell, Physical Oceanography, SIO (Ph.D. 2020): Postdoctoral Researcher, Brown University Dr. Tashiana Osborne, Climate Sciences, SIO (Ph.D. 2021): Climate Advisor Fellow (AAAS), USAID, Washington, DC Dr. Gino Passalaqua, Climate Sciences, SIO (M.S. 2009): Marine Technician, SIO Mr. Ankur Gupta, Physical Oceanography, SIO (M.S. 2012): Project Scientist, National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, India Dr. Chelsey Nieman, Ocean Biodiversity and Conservation, SIO (M.A.S. 2014): Fisheries Biologist, Wood, St. Louis, MO Mr. Jack Weil, Climate Sciences, SIO (M.S. 2022): Environmental Scientist, Tetra Tech, San Diego, CA

Doctoral/Masters committee member to:

Dr. Xiang San Liang, Applied Mathematics, Harvard University (Ph.D. 2002) Dr. Thomas Reichler, Climate Sciences, SIO (Ph.D. 2002) Dr. Catherine Johnson, Biological Oceanography, SIO (Ph.D. 2003) Dr. David Field, Biological Oceanography, SIO (Ph.D. 2004) Mr. Ehecatl Munoz-Mejia, Fisheries Ecology, CIBNOR, La Paz, Mexico, (2002-2005) Dr. Chih-Hao Zac Hsieh, Biological Oceanography, SIO (Ph.D. 2006) Dr. Elena Brambilla, Physical Oceanography, SIO (Ph.D. 2006) Dr. Alex Ruane, Climate Sciences, SIO (Ph.D., 2007) Dr. Elizabeth Douglass, Physical Oceanography, SIO (Ph.D., 2007) Dr. Daniel Birch, Physical Oceanography, SIO (Ph.D., 2007) Mr. Miles Woodard, Climate Sciences, SIO (2006-2007) Mr. Tony Shiao, Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, SIO (M.A.S., 2013) Dr. Xue Fan, Physical Oceanography, SIO (Ph.D., 2014) Dr. Ethan Deyle, Biological Oceanography, SIO (Ph.D., 2015) Mr. Cotton Rockwood, Biological Oceanography, SIO (Ph.D. candidate, 2013-present) Dr. Sara Sanchez, Climate Sciences, SIO (Ph.D., 2018) Dr. Weijie Wang, Climate Sciences, SIO (Ph.D., 2017) Dr. Will Crawford, Ocean Sciences, UC, Santa Cruz (Ph.D., 2017) Dr. Adi Khen, Marine Biology, SIO (Ph.D., 2022) Ms. Caroline Lowcher, Physical Oceanography, SIO (Ph.D., 2023) Mr. Erik Saberski, Biological Oceanography, SIO (Ph.D., 2024) Ms. Wen-Shu Lin, Climate Sciences, SIO (Ph.D. candidate, 2022-present)

Visiting Doctoral Students mentored:

Dr. Anamitra Saha, Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (2016-2017) Dr. Daling Li Yi, Physical Oceanography, Ocean University of China, Qingdao (2016-2018) Dr. Chuan-Yang Wang, Physical Oceanography, Ocean University of China, Qingdao (2016-2018) Ms. Lin Piao, Meteorology, Peking University (2016-2017) Dr. Yu Zhang, Physical Oceanography, Ocean University of China, Qingdao (2017-2019) Dr. Soumik Ghosh, Geophysics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India (2019-2020) Mr. Giacomo Lucidi, Physics of Earth System, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy (2019-2020) Ms. Elise Beaudin, Ocean Science and Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA (2021-2022)

Postdoctoral researchers mentored:

Dr. Guillermo Auad, Ph.D., Scripps Institution of Oceanography (1995-1999) Dr. Sutara "Ata" Suanda, Ph.D., Oregon State University (2014-2015) Dr. Liz Drenkard, Ph.D., MIT-Woods Hole Joint Program (2016-2019) Dr. Rui Sun, Ph.D., Virginia Tech (2017-2021) Dr. Xuan "Bill" Cui, Ph.D., Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2023-present)

Undergraduate students mentored:

Ms. Emma Nuss, Probability and Statistics, UCSD (2012-2013) Ms. Ana-Patricia Lopez, Environmental Engineering, SDSU (2013-2014) Ms. Maria Winters, Environmental Engineering, UCSD (2015-2017) Mr. Nathan Cusson-Nadeau, Environmental Engineering, UCSD (2016-2017) Ms. Cristina Curiel, Marine Biology, UCSD (2017) Ms. Sara Ramirez, Environmental Systems, UCSD (2018-2019) Ms. Yunchun "Pauline" Pan, Applied Mathematics, UCSD (2019-2020) Mr. Lawrence Balitaan, Oceanic and Atmospheric Science, UCSD (2019) Mr. Magnus Oddershede, Physics, University of Copenhagen (2022-2023) Mr. Carlo Makeever, Computer Science, Mesa College (2023) Mx. Iris Smyrl, Environmental Systems (Ecology, Behavior and Evolution), UCSD (2023)

High School student mentored:

Ms. Hannah Cohen, Horace Greeley High School, Chappaqua, NY (2018)