GLRC Department

Specialties

• Pre-award Proposal Development and Budgeting Support
• Post Award Project Administration
• Institute and Department Budget Administration
• Institute and Department Reporting
• Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships

Roles and Areas of Responsibility

• Pre-Award Proposal Development and Budgeting Support
• Post Award Project Management
• Implementation of Institute Initiatives
• Website Development

Roles and Areas of Responsibility

• Department Payroll and Timesheets 
• Financial Transactions
• Website Maintenance
• Purchase Requisitions and Invoices
• Department/Shared Facilities Data/Reports
• GLRC Events

Roles and Areas of Responsibility

• Safety Liaison
• Pre-award Proposal Development Support
• Facility Space Coordination
• Event Planning and Management

Roles and Areas of Responsibility

• Research Communications
• Graphic Design Support
• Marketing Materials
• Content Development for Social Media
• Pre-Award Proposal Development Support
• Website Development

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

Areas of Interest

• Geosciences Education
• Geoconservation
• Geoheritage
• National Marine Sanctuary
• Great Lakes Indigenous Knowledge
• University-Indigenous Community Partnerships

Research Interests

• Enhance our understanding of processes driving landscape and environmental change in complex environments and habitats.
• Improve our ability to efficiently and accurately map complex environments and habitats with emerging technologies (AUVs, ROVs, remotely sensed data).
• Predict coastal change (and environmental change more broadly) by integrating geography, geology, geophysics, machine learning, and other disciplines.
• Engage communities via citizen-science opportunities to better understand community-driven research needs and help apply active research to address real-world challenges.

Areas of Interest

• Sustainable Materials Conversion
• Analytical Chemistry and Instrumentation
• Experimental Design and Implementation
• Biofuels and Biomaterials Development
• Process Optimization and Validation
• Project Management and Coordination

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

Areas of Interest

• Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
• Image Processing
• Data Science and Analytics

Specialties

• Support GLRC research programs
• Focus on measurements of the over water and in-water environments
• Support design, fabrication, testing & utilization of prototype field deployable instruments, including programming and decision support algorithms
• Statistical analysis of remote sensing and in situ data sets
• Expanded Biography

Areas of Interest

• Bioinformatics
• Microbial ecology
• Plant-microbe interactions
• Community structure

Areas of Interest

• Microbial Biotechnology
• Material Upcycling
• Sustainable Agriculture
• Environmental Remediation
• Apiculture and Pollinator Health
• Research Facility Organization

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.

Areas of Expertise

• Geographic Information Systems
• Database Development
• GIS Tool and Process Development
• Integrating Web, GIS, Database and Analytics Tools

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

Areas of Expertise

• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Geospatial Metadata
• Cartography
• Web-based GIS application development
• Geospatial data management, discovery, and dissemination

Links of Interest

• Science Education
• Science Assessment Development

Specialties

• K-12 Educational Leadership
• K-12 Professional Development
• K-12 Science Education

Specialties

• K-12 NGSS curricular design
• Problem Based Learning
• Development of Interactive Models and Simulations

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

Research Area

Utilizing machine learning techniques for the Great Lakes system, particularly for the projections of water levels,  waves, and coastal flooding regions