COURSES UNDERGRADUATE: Fluid Mechanics (CEE3040), Hydraulic Engineering (CEE4200) GRADUATE: Fluid Mechanics (CEE6251), Fluid Mechanics of Organisms (CEE6263), Hydrodynamic Stability and Turbulence (CEE6293) STUDENT ADVISING AND SUPERVISION Ph.D. STUDENT GUIDANCE Graduated Brian Dickman Starting Term: Fall 2003 Completion: Fall 2008 Thesis: "Chemical and Hydromechanical Cue Structure in the Context of Turbulent Odor Plume Tracking" PDF C. Brock Woodson Starting Term: Spring 2002 Completion: Fall 2005 Thesis: "Thin Layers: Physical and Chemical Cues Contributing to Observed Copepod Aggregations" PDF CEE Best Ph.D. Thesis Award 2006 L. Prasad Dasi Starting Term: Summer 2000 Completion: Summer2004 Thesis: "The Small-Scale Structure of Passive Scalar Mixing in Turbulent Boundary Layers" PDF Shikha Rahman Starting Term: Fall 1998 Completion: Spring 2002 Thesis: "Effect of Bed Roughness on Scalar Mixing in a Turbulent Boundary Layer" PDF In Progress Kimberly Catton Starting Term: Fall 2004 Research: Hydrodynamic Wakes: A Signaling Mechanism between Marine Zooplankton Sarah Delavan Starting Term: Fall 2005 Research: The Reciprocal Relationship between Hydrodynamics and Bivalves Aaron C. True Starting Term: Spring 2008 Research: Fluid Mechanical and Chemical Cues in Thin Layers: Effects of Scale and Individual Behavior David W. Murphy Starting Term: Spring 2008 Research: Biologically-Generated Flow by Plankton M.S. THESIS STUDENTS  Graduated Ronald J. Miller Starting Term: Fall 2004 Completion: Fall 2005 Thesis: "A Study of Passive Scalar Mixing in Turbulent Boundary Layers using Multipoint Correlators" PDF Katie Rasberry Starting Term: Summer 2004 Completion: Summer 2005 Thesis: "The Behavioral Effect of Laboratory Turbulence on Copepods" PDF Frank Schuerg Starting Term: Fall 2002 Completion: Fall 2003 Thesis: "Fractal Geometry of Iso-surfaces of a Passive Scalar in a Turbulent Boundary Layer" PDF Aisha Brathwaite Starting Term: Fall 2001 Completion: Spring 2003 Thesis: "A Novel Laboratory Apparatus for Simulating Isotropic Oceanic Turbulence at Low Reynolds Number" PDF CEE Outstanding MS Thesis Award 2003 Cayman Percy Starting Term: Spring 2000 Completion: Spring 2001 Thesis: "The Influence of Fluid Mechanics on the Orientation Behavior of Blue Crabs" PDF D. Scott Felton Starting Term: Fall 1999 Completion: Fall 2000 Thesis: "Theoretical Dissolution Coefficient for Rock Fractures" PDF Lakshmi Prasad Dasi Starting Term: Summer 1999 Completion: Summer 2000 Thesis: "Statistical Characteristics of Turbulent Chemical Plumes" PDF Ying Liu Starting Term: Fall 1998 Completion: Spring 2000 Thesis: "Measurements of Jet Velocity in Unstratified and Stratified Fluids" PDF Layla Ra`ad Starting Term: Fall 1997 Completion: Summer 1999 Thesis: "Simultaneous Measurements of Velocity and Concentration for a Turbulent Jet" PDF In Progress W. Alex Berry Starting Term: Fall 2007 Research: Quantification of the Flow Environment in Crab, Whelk, Hard Clam Habitats UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS Alex Stephenson: High speed video analysis of krill pleopod kinematics, Spring 2009 Hunter Causey: Zooplankton behavior trails in laboratory mimics of thin layers, Spring 2009 Matthew Lynch: Copepod response to thin layers of harmful algal bloom, Summer & Fall 2008, NSF REU program during Summer 2008 Robert Ussery: Sensor-driven autonomous behavior algorithms for chemical plume tracking, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, and Spring 2009 Aaron Johnson: Copepod response to thin velocity layers of different orientation, Summer & Fall 2007. NSF REU program during Summer 2007 W. Alex Berry: Simultaneous velocity and concentration measurements in a meandering plume, Spring 2007 James Bullock: Analysis of blue crab tracking in 3D concentration fields, Spring 2007 Genevra Pittman: Chemical cues in thin layers, Summer 2006. NSF REU program, co-advised with J. Yen (BIOL) Paul Hobson: Copepod response to thin layer structure in the ocean, Fall 2005 Brendan McArdle: Copepod response to thin layer structure in the ocean, Spring 2005 Max Coursey: Velocity measurements in turbulent boundary layers over rough beds, Spring 2004 Katie Rasberry: Zooplankton behavior response to turbulent motions, Fall 2003 & Spring 2004 Matthew Shingler: Design of turbulent actuators, Fall 2002 Molly Palmer: Dynamics of vortex breakdown, Spring 2001 Sharon Palmer: Blue crab chemical plume tracking trials, Spring 2001 Justin Redmond: Pump stand assembly and data acquisition development, Spring 2001 Richard Kim: Blue crab chemical plume tracking trials, Summer & Fall 2000 J. Ryan Smith: Blue crab chemical tracking trials, Spring 2000 Anny Huang: Chaotic mixing in vortex breakdown, Summer & Fall 1999 E. Ross Brockwell: Blue crab chemical tracking trials, Fall 1999 Tonia Hanson: Turbulent collapse in density stratified fluid, Summer 1999 Marissa Muschott: Chemical plume tracking abilities of blue crabs, Summer 1999 Dustin Hodges: Validation of flow characteristics in new salt-water flume, Spring 1999 Todd Taylor: Dynamics of vortex breakdown, Winter & Spring 1999