Research Staff

Downloads Full CV Research Interests Nicole Waite is an oceanographer and laboratory researcher with over a decade of experience in marine science, ocean observing technologies, and polar ecological research. She…

Short Bio: Mitaali Taskar is a Research Project Assistant (Science Communicator) within Rutgers University’s Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences. She specializes in Science Communication and Education Outreach and supports…

Short Bio: Tim Stolarz is a Laboratory Researcher at RUCOOL, where he specializes in the integration of field-based hardware with advanced, software-driven data services. Over the past three years, he…

Downloads Full CV Research Interests Michael Smith is a Research Analyst at RUCOOL, where he has worked since 2010. He holds a B.A. in Biological Sciences and a M.S. in…

Downloads Full CV | Google Scholar Research Interests Hugh Roarty is a Research Project Manager at RUCOOL, with more than two decades of experience advancing coastal and ocean observing systems…

Downloads Full CV Research Interests Laura Nazzaro currently manages Dr. Kohut’s Dynamic Marine Ecology Lab. Under Dr. Kohut’s supervision, she earned her M.S. in Oceanography in 2011 with a thesis…

Short History Sage is a research programmer and user experience (UX) designer with Rutgers University’s Center for Ocean Observing Leadership (RU COOL). His work focuses on developing interactive websites and…

Research Interests Coastal and estuarine physical processes. Modeling of coastal ocean dynamics. Real-time data assimilation for ocean forecasting. Small scale turbulence measurements in the field and laboratory Lagrangian measurements and…

Downloads Full CV Research Interests I am a research project coordinator with RUCOOL, and I primarily specialize in operational oceanography. Specifically, I have been working to support NOAA’s IOOS program…