- Assistant Director, Marine Operations
- Manager, Marine Research Assets Shared Facility
- jameya@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2914
- GLRC 309
Specialties
- Oversee research buoys
- Maintain and repair Remote Operated Vehicles
- Maintain R/V Agassiz to USCG standards
- Maintain and operate survey vessels
- Provide electrical and mechanical support of specialized research equipment
- Expanded Biography
- Research Engineer
Specialties
- Underwater acoustic remote sensing
- Design, fabrication, testing & utilization of prototype field deployable instruments
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Application and deployment of advanced technologies and integrated observing systems
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Quality assurance and control of in-situ data
- Provide strategic scientific and engineering support to partners
- Scientific scuba diving
Research Interests
- Surface and underwater autonomous or remotely operated research platforms
- Acoustic signal processing
- Optical engineering
- Marine engineering
- Business water risk
- Associate Research Scientist, Great Lakes Research Center
- Instructor, Psychology and Human Factors
Areas of Expertise
- Design and implementation of professional development for K-12 and undergraduate STEM teachers
- K-12 STEM education research
- Program evaluation
Research Interests
- Instructional practices that support environmental literacy and stewardship
- Integration of computing into STEM education
- Teachers beliefs about reforms-based science instruction including nature of science, inquiry, engineering, Next Generation Science Standards, and technology integration
- Professional development elements (remote and face-to-face) that support instructional change, teacher leadership and reforms-based science instruction
- Using levels of inquiry to support teachers' understanding and integration of mathematical and scientific inquiry in k-12 education
- Teachers' understandings regarding key concepts in science including respiration and photosynthesis
- Director, Great Lakes Research Center
- Director, Institute of Computing and Cybersystems
- William and Gloria Jackson Professor
- thavens@mtu.edu
- 906-487-3115
- GLRC 307
Links of Interest
Areas of Interest
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Signal and Image Processing
- Sensor and Data Fusion
- Heterogeneous Data Mining
- Senior Research Engineer
- Relief Captain
- hmhender@mtu.edu
- 906-487-1584
- GLRC 305
Areas of Expertise
- Limnology and physical oceanography
- Application, fabrication, and deployment of advanced technology and integrated observing systems
- Surface and underwater autonomous or remotely operated research platforms
- Meteorological and biogeochemical sensor instrumentation
- Quality assurance and control of in-situ data
- USCG 100 GRT Master Captain
Research Interests
- Establishment of long-term climate observations
- Great Lakes acidification
- Ship based flow-through systems
- Nutrient cycling and subsequent productivity
- Advanced technologies for increasing public safety
- Data science and tool building
- Assistant Research Scientist, Great Lakes Research Center
Area of Expertise
- Hydrodynamic modeling
- Regional climate modeling
- Physical limnology
- Nearshore processing
Research Interests
- Great Lakes cross-scale hydrodynamics
- Integrated Earth modeling system
- Long-term climate change and projection over the Great Lakes
- Short-term hydrodynamic forecasting in the Great Lakes
- Interactions between atmospheric and lake processing
- Assistant Research Scientist, Great Lakes Research Center
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
- bkopec@mtu.edu
- 906-487-1144
- GLRC 221
Links of Interest
Research Interests
- Arctic water cycle
- Water isotope geochemistry
- Ice-ocean/lake-atmosphere interactions
- Ocean/lake water mass partitioning
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Impacts of changing cryosphere on hydrologic systems
- Geospatial Research Scientist
- djlizzad@mtu.edu
- 906-487-3418
- GLRC 303 and 318
Areas of Expertise
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Geostatistical Analysis
- Lake Superior Geology, Coastal Geomorphology, and Geoheritage
- GPS, GIS Data Collector Applications, and Mapping Technologies
- Web-based GIS Data Dissemination and Applications
- Interdisciplinary GIS Project Management
- Emeritus Director and Research Fellow, GLRC
- Research Professor, MAE, and Adjunct Professor, GMES
Research Interests
- Large scale field experimentation in the Inland Seas of the Great Lakes and coastal oceans
- Nearshore hydrodynamics and prediction
- Autonomous and semi-autonomous environmental monitoring platforms (surface and sub-surface)
- Underwater acoustic remote sensing
- Marine engineering
Marianne Semones
- Mi-STAR Program Director and Senior Research Scientist
- Research Engineer III, Great Lakes Research Center
- sasenczy@mtu.edu
- 906-487-1064
- GLRC 317
Specialties
- Program Management
- Proposal Development
- Technology Commercialization
Research Interests
- Acoustics and Vibrations
- Thermoacoustics
- Carbon Nanotube Speaker Design and Fabrication
- Underwater Acoustics
- Active Noise Control
- Image and Signal Processing
- Autonomous Vehicles
- Senior Geospatial Research Scientist
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Social Sciences
- djtrepal@mtu.edu
- 906-487-3580
- GLRC 303
Education
- PhD, Industrial Heritage and Archaeology, Michigan Technological University
- MS, Industrial Archaeology, Michigan Technological University
- BS, Anthropology and History, Cleveland State University
Research Interests
- Industrial and Urban Archaeology
- Historical GIS
- Deindustrialization
- Industrial Landscapes
- The Archaeology of Brownfields
- Spatial Analysis of Historical Industrial Pollutants
- Big Data Approaches to Archaeology
- Publicly-engaged Scholarship
Stephanie Tubman
- Mi-STAR Senior Research Scientist
Research Interests
- Teacher leadership development
- Science teacher beliefs, attitudes, and practices around effective science instruction
- Decision-making and power sharing in instructional and organizational settings
Specialties
- Design of curriculum for Next Generation Science Standards in the middle (6-8) and high school (9-12) gradebands
- Design and evaluation of inquiry-based curriculum for grades 6-12
- Environmental and place-based education
- Integration of Next Generation Science Standards into place-based educational frameworks
- Design and implementation of professional learning for STEM educators
- Coaching and facilitation of teacher leaders
- Earth science, water resource, and natural hazards education
- Project Management
- Geosciences Research Scientist, Great Lakes Research Center
- ecvye@mtu.edu
- 906-487-1581
- GLRC 213
Areas of Interest
- Geosciences Education
- Geoconservation
- Geoheritage
- National Marine Sanctuary
- Great Lakes Indigenous Knowledge
- University-Indigenous Community Partnerships
- Research Engineer, Great Lakes Research Center
- Relief Captain, Great Lakes Research Center
- tmwhite@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2877
- GLRC 310
Specialties
- Responsible for administration of the Marine Autonomy Research Site and Smart Ships Coalition and coordination with the Marine Research Assets Shared Use Facility (MRAF) in support of client needs.
- Provide scientific and engineering support to faculty, staff, partners, and sponsors with expertise in design, manufacturing, and integration of marine systems. Support budget and proposal development, project management, and strategic planning.
- Over 10 years' experience as a licensed captain on the Great Lakes with expertise in navigation systems, marine electronics, mechanical systems, and maintenance, repair, and operations.
- Expanded Biography.
- Assistant Director, Geospatial Research Facility
- rywillia@mtu.edu
- 906-487-1485
- GLRC 313
Areas of Expertise
- Geographic Information Systems
- Database Development
- GIS Tool and Process Development
- Integrating Web, GIS, Database and Analytics Tools
- Associate Director, Great Lakes Research Center
- Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
- Director, Numerical Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Great Lakes Research Center
- pexue@mtu.edu
- 906-487-1837
- GLRC 208
Links of Interest
Teaching Interests
- Introductory Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
- Hydrodynamic Modeling
- Water Resources Engineering
- Ecosystem Dynamics Modeling
Research Interests
- Hydrodynamic modeling
- Regional climate modeling
- Coupled ocean-atmosphere dynamics
- Data assimilation and machine learning
- Biophysical processes in the Great Lakes
- Estuary and coastal ocean processes
- Postdoctoral Scholar
- czhao4@mtu.edu
- GLRC 210
Research Interests
- Great Lakes hydrodynamic modeling and data assimilation
- Coastal disaster prevention and mitigation
- Waves and currents interaction with vegetation
- Sediment transport in vegetated regions