I am a Computer Science student at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. I currently work for the department of Environmental Earth & Ocean Sciences as a Marine Engineer. I am also the Managing Director for the Center for Coastal Environmental Sensing Networks (CESN).

My interest is in marine instrumentation and sensor Networks.

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My research interest is in estuarine and coastal dynamics, contaminant transport within coastal waters, mixing processes in stratified fluids, numerical modeling marine processes.

Over the past five years I have been working with Dr. Robert Chen on a project funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research to design, assemble and deploy the 'ECOShuttle a towed, undulating vehicle based on the Nu-Shuttle manufactured by Chelsea Instruments. As currently configured it carries a Sea Bird Electronics SBE 9/11 CTD system which provides temperature, salinity and depth data as well as acting as the data acquisition system for several other sensors. Fluorescent dissolved organic matter is measured by a Sea Tech fluorometer. A Chelsea Instruments UV Aqua-Tracka fluorometer using a shorter excitation wavelength also provides an indication of hydrocarbon concentration. Other instrumentation includes a chlorophyll fluorometer and optical backscatter sensor manufactured by Sea Point Instruments and a dissolved oxygen sensor provided by Sea Bird Electronics. An altimeter facilitates safe operation within a few meters of thebottom. With the current cable the maximum depth of operation is about 50 meters.

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My research interest involves studying marine ecosystems through coupled biological-physical modeling, including:

• Development of biochemical models for coastal and open ocean ecosystems, and coupled biochemical-physical numerical models
• Global climate changes, resulting from both natural variability and human activities, for example, carbon removal through biological processes in oceans
• Impacts of human activities on coastal environment
• Numerical studies on the physical processes that affect marine ecosystems

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Hayley is getting her PhD under Robert Chen investigating carbon cycling in salt marsh systems. Her research has coupled with CESN in utilizing buoy and cruise transect data to monitor carbon leaching patterns with seasonality.

I am a graduate student in the UMass School of Marine Sciences in the lab of Dr. Robert F. Chen. I am interested in monitoring and managing water quality in coastal estuaries, and I am particularly attracted to the technologies available for making coastal monitoring as robust as possible. I have an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh and substantial managerial experience. I hope to combine my management background with my interests in environmental stewardship and sensor technologies so that I can work to promote clean waters and sound environmental practices.

I have been a member of the Center for Coastal Environmental Sensing Networks since 2012 in the capacity of an intern/research-assistant, and I have been conducting research in three areas: bacteria predictions with sensor networks, erosion monitoring with wireless networks, and hydrologic data monitoring with buoy networks. The bacteria prediction project is an ongoing effort to use real-time meteorologic and hydrologic data to create on-line warning systems about harmful bacteria levels in rivers and harbors. I have deployed a networked sensor station on the Charles River, which is linked to an online bacteria forecasting model (link to project details). The erosion monitoring project is an ongoing effort to study the use of video cameras for monitoring coastal erosion caused by sea-level rise. I have led the creation of a network of wireless video cameras on Thompson Island in Boston Harbor, which is being used to monitor bluff-erosion (link to project details). The buoy network project is a CESN project to experiment with the use of buoys with networked sensor platforms to monitor estuarine health. We maintain a set of 4 buoys in the Neponset River Estuary with the long-term goal of creating an alarm system for events of interest (link to project details).

I am an avid sailor, canoer, and kayaker, and I am passionate about protecting the marine environment.

I have had the pleasure of working with CESN since I began at UMass in 2009. I am now a senior undergraduate student working toward a B.S. in EEOS and a mathematics minor. My interests are in all fields of science that involve fluid engineering and environmental stewardship. This May, I am honored to take part in a collaborative science effort with the University of Rhode Island, in the Southern Ocean and the Gerlache Strait. I will be assisting Dr. Meng Zhou with physical oceanographic research and MATLAB data management that will become my undergraduate thesis. Subsequently, I hope to be enrolled in an environmental engineering graduate school.

At CESN I contribute to the welding, fabrication, wiring, and programming of many CESN environmental monitoring projects. I also monitor and maintain a shared site with the USGS which observes and records data for CDOM, chlorophyll, disolved oxygen, at the Baker Dam of the Neponset River.

Feel free to contact me at thomas.heathii001@umb.edu if you have any questions.

My love for environmental science came from many summers of hiking and camping in my home state of Colorado. Currently, I am a senior in the Environmental, Earth, and Ocean Sciences department at UMass Boston with interests in Atmospheric Science and Hydrology. As a member of Coastal Environmental Sensing Networks since April of 2009, I assist in the construction and maintenance of the 5 BEACON buoys monitoring Boston Harbor. I also perform tasks such as electrical wiring, circuit board soldering, and field work logistics.

I received a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obipso in 2005, a Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara in 2007 and a PhD degree in the Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California San Diego in 2010.

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Coastal Environmental Sensing Networks. My research interests span computer engineering and aquatic sciences, focusing on selecting and developing technology to advance marine science research. At CESN, I have worked on the development of a microbial water quality sensor and have expanded CESN's telemetry capabilities.

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