Raffaele Ferrari
Research Group
Raffaele Ferrari
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Office: 54-1620
Phone: 617 253 1291
Email: rferrari at mit.edu
Research Interests
Ocean Dynamics and Climate
Turbulence in the Ocean and Atmosphere
Energetics of the Ocean Circulation
Ocean circulation in past climates
Biological blooms in the ocean
Education
2000 - PhD in Physical Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla
1999 - PhD in Fluid Mechanics, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Postdocs
Louis-Philippe Nadeau
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Office: 54-1622
Phone: 617 253 3573
Email: lpnadeau at mit.edu
Web: http://eaps-www.mit.edu/paoc/people/louis-philippe-nadeau
Research Interests
Antarctic Circumpolar Current dynamics
Effects of geostrophic turbulence on the large scale ocean circulation
Continental shelf dynamics
Education
2011 - PhD in Climate, McGill University, Canada
Alexandre Mignot
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Office: 54-1622
Phone: 617 253 3573
Email: amignot at mit.edu
Web: http://www.oao.obs-vlfr.fr/about-us/teamsm/189-alexandre-mignots?lang=
Research Interests
Use of optical sensors to measure biogeochemical processes
Phytoplankton blooms
Education
2012 - PhD Laboratoire D’Océanographie de Villefranche, France
Alireza Mashayek
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Office: 54-1621
Phone: 617 452 3889
Email: ali_mash at mit.edu
Web: https://sites.google.com/site/alirezamashayek/
Research Interests
Turbulent mixing in stratified fluids
Turbulence and the overturning circulation of the ocean
Education
2013 - PhD University of Toronto, Canada
Graduate Students
Jörn Callies
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Office: 54-1615
Phone: 617 715 4290
Email: joernc at mit.edu
Web: http://eaps-www.mit.edu/paoc/people/jorn-callies
Research Interests
Meridional overturning circulation of the ocean
Turbulence in the upper ocean
Education
2011 - Diplom in Meteorology, University of Hamburg, Germany
Marianna Linz
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Office: 54-1615
Phone: 617 715 4290
Email: mlinz at mit.edu
Web: http://eaps-www.mit.edu/paoc/people/marianna-linz
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Research Interests
Role of the ocean circulation in climate
ENSO variability and climate
Geostrophic eddies and ocean heat uptake
Education
2012 - B.Sc. in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, US
Gualtiero Spiro Jeager
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Office: 54-1613
Phone: 617 324 3386
Email: gvsj at mit.edu
Web: http://eaps-www.mit.edu/paoc/people/gualtiero-spiro-jaeger
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Research Interests
Analytical models of marine plankton
Education
2012 - B.Sc. in Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, US
Staff
Christine Maglio
Financial coordinator
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Office: 54-1614
Phone: 617 253 7762 / 617 324 8177
Email: cmaglio at mit.edu
Web: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/people/cliberty
Darius Collazo
Administrative Assistant
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Office: 54-1424
Phone: 617 253 0251
Email: dcollazo at mit.edu
Web: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/people/dcollazo
Alumni
Malte Jansen - PhD student 2007-2012
NOAA Postdoctoral Fellow, GFDL, Princeton, US
Sophia Merrifield - PhD student 2010-2012
Graduate student, MIT/WHOI Joint Program, US
Andreas Klocher - Postdoctoral researcher 2009-2011
Researcher at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
John Taylor - Postdoctoral researcher 2008-2011
Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, UK
Yu Zhang - Postdoctoral researcher 2009-2010
Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Princeton/GFDL, US
Maxim Nikurashin - PhD student 2002-2008
Assistant Professor, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Baylor Fox-Kemper - Postdoctoral researcher 2004-2007
Associate Professor at University of Colorado at Boulder, US
Jessica Benthuysen - Master student 2004-2006
Postdoctoral Fellow at CSIRO Marine Research, Hobart, Australia
Giulio Boccaletti - Postdoctoral fellow 2003-2005
Strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company in London, UK
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