John Kerfoot
Marine Scientist

email: kerfoot@imcs.rutgers.edu
Phone: 732-932-6555, x.526
Fax: 732-932-1821

Education:
2000 M.A., Biological Oceanography, University of California at Santa Barbara 
1996 Bachelor of Arts, Aquatic Biology, University of California at Santa Barbara 

Research Interests:
Although my educational background is in phytoplankton physiology and bio-optics, my current research interest focuses on using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) in a sustained effort to maintain a continuous subsurface presence in the coastal oceans around the world. Specifically, I am responsible for the processing of raw optical and physical environmental data acquired by the Slocum Coastal Electric Glider and dissemination to our educational and research partners and the public via the Internet. I am using a suite of programming languages (Matlab, PHP, HTML, Perl, shell-scripting) on a variety of computing platforms (Windows, UNIX, Linux) to accomplish this. The end goal is to provide high-quality, continuous, real-time, sub-surface ocean data in order to further the understanding of the effects of the coastal oceans on our environment.