Jörn Callies

Jörn is Assistant Professor for Environmental Science and Engineering in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at Caltech. He holds a M.Sc. degree from the University of Hamburg, Germany, and a Ph.D. from the MIT–WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography.

Joseph Fitzgerald

Joe is the Stanback Postdoctoral Scholar in Environment Science and Engineering and working on understanding submesoscale tracer transport by waves and turbulence. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2018.

Anirban Sinha

Anirban is a postdoc in the group working on the large-scale impact of submesoscale turbulence, in a joint project with Dimitris Menemenlis (JPL). He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2018.

Wenbo Wu

Wenbo is the Seismological Laboratory Director’s Postdoctoral Scholar and working on seismic ocean thermometry (co-advised by Zhongwen Zhan). He received his Ph.D. in geophysics from Princeton University in 2019.

Ignacio Lopez-Gomez

Ignacio is a graduate student in the Environmental Science and Engineering program, working in the group to understand how fast atmospherically forced waves affect the slow ocean circulation.

Yangcheng Luo

Yangcheng is a graduate student in the Environmental Science and Engineering program, working in the group to understand vertical exchange driven by submesoscale baroclinic mixed-layer instabilities.

Shirui Peng

Shirui is a graduate student in the Environmental Science and Engineering program, working in the group on seismic ocean thermometry.

Henry Peterson

Henry is a graduate student in the Environmental Science and Engineering program, working in the group to understand basin-scale flow driven by bottom-intensified mixing.

Alumni

Xiaozhou Ruan (Graduate student 2018–19) — now postdoc at MIT

Weiguang (Roger) Wu (SURF 2018) — now graduate student at MIT–WHOI Joint Program

Gianmarco Terrones (SURF 2019) — now senior at Caltech

Theodore Yang (intern 2019–20) — now graduate student at Stanford

Bryan Kaiser (Visiting student 2017) — now postdoc at Los Alamos National Lab