Contributors
Dr. Dale Kiefer - University of Southern California
Dr. Kiefer, who obtained his doctorate in biological oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, is a Professor of Biology at USC. He has published over 75 papers in the fields of marine microbiology and optics and has obtained 3 U.S. patents for inventions in optical instrumentation and wave damping floats. He has worked extensively on water quality monitoring, plankton models, remote sensing, and marine conservation.
Frank O'Brien - System Science Applications, Inc.
Frank, who obtained his master's degree in Mathematics specializing in Statistics from the University of Vermont, is the Director of Software Engineering for System Science Applications. He is software architect and designer with over 55 years experience in the field of software analysis and design. He collaborated in the development of the first version of EASy software. In addition to this, he provides a continuous supply of elegant tools for the analysis and visualization of geographic information for use in SSA's many environmental and engineering projects.
Zachary Siegrist - System Science Applications, Inc.
Zach holds a master's degree in biology from Western Washington University and has studied marine biology and limnology in Wisconsin, Washington and Southeastern France. He has worked as a research scientist and programmer for System Science Applications since 2011 and has represented EASy and AquaModel at workshops and conferences in the United States, Chile, Oman and India. Zach provides a range of services for SSA, including data analysis, writing/editing scientific literature, website design, and coding, testing and developing EASy and AquaModel modules.
Andrew Bakun - Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
Dr. Bakun, who is a Professor Emeritus at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami, obtained his doctorate from Oregan State University. He has extensive experience in fishery research including serving as Research Director at the L’Institut de recherche pour le développement in Sete, France and served nine years as Director of the NOAA Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory (Monterey, California).
He has held major international and national scientific advisory positions including at the IGBP-GLOBEC working group on reporductive studies, the steering committee of the International Climate and Ocean Preditors Project, and the UNISCO Interdisciplinary Ocean Science of the Global Coastal Ocean Study. His recent research and publications have been on the effects on marine populations of wind vorticity, ocean eddies, and ocean upwelling including the effects of climate change on these structures.
Daniele Bianchi - UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Dr. Bianchi is an assistant professor in ocean biogeochemistry at the University of California Los Angeles. He obtained his doctorate in Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences from Princeton University. His research focuses on the interaction between the oceanic environment and marine life, and is ultimately motivated by understanding how the ocean ecosystem functions, and how it responds to global change. His work uses a combination of observations and numerical models of varying complexity, many of which he contributed to develop. He has extensive experience working with acoustic observations and satellite-derived products, and in developing and using global ocean ecosystem models.
Manfredi Manizza - UCSD Scripps Institution of Oceanology
Dr. Manizza is a biogeochem oceangrapher in the Geosciences Research Division of the UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He received his doctorate in Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He is currently studying how greenhouse gases from the atmosphere are absorbed, circulated, and released in ocean water, particularly in the Arctic and Southern Ocean.