Department of Marine Science
People
Meet the members of the EEL family
Lab administration
Steve Moore, Ph.D.
- Professor of Marine Science and Robotic Gadgetry
- Lab Director (Chief EEL Trainer?)
Captain Mildew
- Lab Supervisor
- Official test pilot for EEL inventions
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Steve Moore
Victoria Assad
- Undergraduate
- UROC Scholar
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Ekaterina Patrice
Ekaterina Patrice
- Undergraduate
Maggie Seida
- Undergraduate
- UROC Scholar
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Ekaterina Patrice
Ryan Solymar
- Graduate Student
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Steve Moore
Ethan Switzer
- Undergraduate
- COAST researcher
Emily Tate
- Undergraduate
Katt Tinsman
- Undergraduate
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Steve Moore
Dianna Valenzuela
- Undergraduate
Logan Van Nevel
- Undergraduate
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Ekaterina Patrice
Gerard Williams
- Undergraduate
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Steve Moore
Julia Courville
- Undergraduate
- Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler
Dylan Jones
- Undergraduate
- Undersea Robotics
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Steve Moore
Laura Lesyna
- Undergraduate
- UROC Scholar
Hannah Mayers
- Undergraduate
- Deep sea fish identification
Brandon Morales
- Undergraduate
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Steve Moore
Devon Preyer
- Undergraduate
- NOAA Researcher
Dominic Rodricks
- Undergraduate
- Scientific diver
- Marine habitat surveys
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Steve Moore
Anthony Terzoli
- Undergraduate
- Small boats assistant
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Steve Moore
Malcolm Tunnell
- Undergraduate
These individuals have graduated and moved on, but each of them had a transformative influence on the EEL and will live on forever in EEL lore and legend! In most cases these folks were super-active in the EEL for at least a year or two and made major contributions to the lab through their efforts at designing/building/maintaining equipment, collecting field data, traveling to the far corners of the Earth to work on EEL projects, and just generally being all-around awesome people (er, I mean EELs). It has been an honor to work with each of them!
Josh Ambrose
- Undergraduate
- Electronics & software for ROVs and seafloor instrumentation
- Major contributions to the EEL's tools, organization, and capabilities
- EEL Expeditions: Ulithi 2013, Catalina Island 2013
Lauren Boye
- Undergraduate
- ROV technician
- Scientific Diver
- EEL Expeditions: Pulley Ridge 2015
Michael Hang
- Graduate Student
- Research: factors affecting squid embryo survival
- Development of U/W camera systems for benthic ecology studies
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Steve Moore
Jason Hayward
- Undergraduate
- ROVing Otter Project
Clifton Herrmann
- Graduate Student
- Research: Flow in rippled scour depression habitats, Plankton.
- Design/construction of flow dataloggers
Image coming soon.
Tad Masek
- Undergraduate
- Automated water sampling
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Steve Moore
James McClure
- Undergraduate
- Electronics & software for ROVs and seafloor instrumentation
- EEL Expeditions: Ulithi Atoll 2013, Catalina Island 2013
Image coming soon.
Chris Nana
- Undergraduate
- Shark Speedometer Project
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Steve Moore
Shelby Peters
- Undergraduate
- "Catalina" ROV development for K-12 education
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Steve Moore
James ("Steve") Ryan
- Undergraduate (sort of)
- EEL Expeditions: Ulithi 2016.
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Steve Moore
Jean-Christophe ("J-C") Sicotte-Brisson
- Undergrad exchange student from Canada
- Developed prototype tow camera with altitude autopilot
Catrin Wendt
- Undergraduate
- Development of N-BRUVS (underwater video systems)
- EEL Expeditions: Ulithi 2016, International Coral Reef Symposium 2016
Samantha Whitney
- Undergraduate
- ROV technician
- Scientific diver
- EEL Expeditions: Pulley Ridge 2015, International Coral Reef Symposium 2016
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Steve Moore
Charnelle Wickliff
- Undergraduate
- OpenROV construction/piloting
- Laser particle imaging system
- EEL Expeditions: Ulithi 2016
In roughly reverse-chronological order; major EEL projects listed in parentheses.
- Dale Garcia (Laser trip-wire system for squid detection)
- James McClure (Catalina ROV project and Ulithi ROV project)
- Ryan Green (Robot Club)
- Shelby Peters (Catalina ROV project)
- Teresa Henry (Squid Pod project)
- Alin Gonzales (Underwater web cams for fish observations)
- Jesus Galvan (Autonomous aircraft tracking and control)
- Cody Barnes (Track plates & cameras for small mammal surveys)
- Erik Cleeves (Adapting solar-powered wildlife cameras to underwater use)
- Chelsie Newbill (Prep of Mountain Lion skeleton for educational display)
- Adan Romero (Light-beam based circuit for detection of wildlife movements)
- Roberto Avelar (Test interface for remote controlled ROV)
- Mike Bass (ROV thruster evaluation)
- Nick Huerta (Video mapping of sewage outfall off of Ross Island, Antarctica w/ MLML)
- Katie Lannon (Impact of technology-based field trips on 5th grader attitudes toward nature)
- Jason Perez (Assessing educational effectiveness of student-deployed wildlife cameras)
- Matthew Subia (Distribution of giant clams across the Indonesian archipelago)
- Shane Anderson (Underwater video datalogging systems)
- Amanda Grant (Underwater sensor arrays)
- Marika Martin (Owl nestbox camera image archive)
- Tamara Myers (WiFi infrastructure for remote California Condor nest cameras)
- Allison Reesh (Improved reliability of a sea lion dive depth recorder)
- Jason Hayward (Evaluation of web-controlled ROV as tool for teaching math & science)
- Bryan Schaefer (Ultrasonic range finder modified for use as bridge-mounted stream gauge)
- Tad Masek (Automated subtidal water sampling system for monitoring mercury levels)
- Nate Atherstone (Evaluation of solar as power source for subtidal instrumentation)
- Dana Riggs (Design of device for measuring daily water cycle of oaks)
- Sarah Radloff (Dive depth recording system for use with trained California Sea Lions)
- Paulo Serpa (Ecofriendly method for temporary, secure anchoring of subsea instruments)
- Mary Wackerman (Measurement of flow microhabitats within a kelp forest)
- Chris Warn (Modeling of ship traffic acoustic impacts on migrating whales)