School for Marine Science and Technology

Faculty and Fields of Interest

Altabet, Mark A (Chairperson, Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences) Commonwealth Professor of Marine Science and Technology. Specializations: Marine and environmental chemistry.

Bisagni, James Professor Emeritus of Marine Science and Technology. Specializations: Physical oceanography, satellite oceanography.

Brown, Wendell S Professor Emeritus of Marine Science and Technology. Specializations: Coastal physical oceanography, moored ocean observations, real time circulation modeling, data/information management system development.

Buckingham, Christian Research Assistant Professor. Specializations: Ocean physics, remote sensing, geophysical fluid dynamics, mesoscale and submesoscale ocean dynamics, turbulence.

Cadrin, Steven X Professor of Marine Science and Technology. Specializations: Fish stock assessment, defining spatial fishery management units, spatially-complex population dynamics, fishery management advice, bycatch management.

Chen, Changsheng Commonwealth Professor of Marine Science and Technology and Montgomery Charter Chair. Specializations: Modeling and observational exploration of coastal ocean circulation, oceanic frontal processes, turbulent mixing/bottom boundary layer dynamics, chaotic mixing, western boundary currents, internal waves and tides, biological/physical interaction.

Cowles, Geoffrey Associate Professor of Marine Science and Technology. Specializations: Marine renewable energy, ocean modeling, shape optimization and design, high performance computing, coupled marine bio-physical models.

Fay, Gavin Associate Professor of Marine Science and Technology. Specializations: Evaluating performance of ecosystem-based fisheries management strategies, stock assessment statistical methods development, simulation testing of management, monitoring, and assessment procedures, social-ecological ecosystem modeling and indicators for Integrated Ecosystem Assessment, testing decision support tools for living marine resource management.

Gangopadhyay, Avijit Professor of Marine Science and Technology. Specializations: Physical oceanography, numerical modeling, climate studies.

Griffin, Robert Research Assistant Professor. Specializations: Environmental economics, marine and coastal economics, experimental economics.

He, Pingguo (Chairperson, Department of Fisheries Oceanography) Professor of Marine Science and Technology. Specializations: Sustainable fisheries, fish behavior near fishing gear, environmentally friendly fishing gear design, evaluating and reducing fishing impact.

Labrie, Micheline Research Assistant Professor. Specializations: Coastal systems biogeochemistry, biodegradation, and plastics in the environment.

Lohrenz, Steven Professor of Marine Science and Technology. Specializations: Biological distributions and productivity, cycling of carbon and nutrients in coastal and ocean waters using ship-based measurements and optical and remotely sensed observations, characterization of land-ocean interactions using coupled ecosystem models to assess impacts of climate and land use change, optical assessment of air-sea carbon fluxes in river-dominated margins, optical detection and assessment of harmful algal blooms.

Pietri, Alice Research Assistant Professor. Specializations: Meso and submesoscale physical oceanography, autonomous high-resolution ocean observation, marine heatwaves.

Pilskaln, Cynthia Professor Emeritus of Marine Science and Technology. Specializations: Marine biogeochemistry and sedimentology, geochemical particle fluxes in the ocean and large lake systems with emphasis on their quantitative relationship to climate forcing over short and long time scales and to underlying sediment record, organic carbon and biogenic silica cycling including aggregation, export and remineralization processes in the water column and at the sediment/water interface, development and use of particle imaging instrumentation, submersible vehicle-based technology, image analysis techniques for the in-situ study of marine particulates and plankton.

Qi, Jianhua Research Associate Professor. Specializations: Physical oceanography, ocean numerical model simulation, one of FVCOM-SWAVE model developers, NUOPC FVCOM developer.

Rothschild, Brian Professor Emeritus of Marine Science and Technology. Specializations: Ocean ecosystems, marine fish population dynamics, models of plankton dynamics and interactions.

Stokesbury, Kevin Dean and Commonwealth Professor of Marine Science and Technology. Specializations: Marine biology/ecology focusing on fisheries, including scallop population dynamics and life history studies.

Sundermeyer, Miles Professor of Marine Science and Technology. Specializations: Dispersion and transport processes, numerical modeling of mixing and stirring, numerical modeling of physical and biological interactions.

Faculty with SMAST Joint Appointments

Turner, Jefferson Chancellor Professor of Biology and Chancellor Professor of Marine Science and Technology. Specialization: Biological oceanography.

Affiliate Faculty

Moisander, Pia Professor of Biology and Professor of Marine Science and Technology. Specializations: Marine microbial ecology, marine nitrogen cycle, marine biofouling, cyanobacterial blooms.

Tandon, Amit Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Marine Science and Technology. Specializations: Fluid dynamics, physical oceanography, environmental and computational physics.

The School for Marine Sciences and Technology (SMAST) at UMass Dartmouth conducts research and provides instruction in the interdisciplinary areas of marine science, oceanography, technology development and policy. SMAST is a major center for research and economic development for UMass Dartmouth and the University of Massachusetts.

SMAST’s faculty and staff engage in basic and applied research in areas that foster interactions with industries and public agencies on issues of environmental policy and economic development. While SMAST research tends to concentrate on the regional coastal ocean, estuaries and watersheds of Massachusetts, New England and the adjacent United States, some of its programs focus on remote regions of the global oceans.

SMAST is located on 2.6 acres in south New Bedford on Clark’s Cove and Buzzards Bay. SMAST is the home at UMass Dartmouth of the Intercampus Graduate School MS and PhD programs in Marine Sciences and Technology.

Programs

Graduate students who enroll in the School for Marine Sciences and Technology (SMAST) at UMass Dartmouth access MS and PhD degrees which are offered through the University of Massachusetts Intercampus Marine Science graduate program (IMS).

The IMS is an administrative umbrella for the multi-campus faculty, who have diverse teaching and research interests in the marine sciences and associated technologies. The IMS faculty reside on one of the four campuses: UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth or UMass Lowell IMS

The IMS offers students advanced academic studies and research in a range of specializations clustered in five option areas.

At UMass Dartmouth, the administrative home of the IMS program is the School for Marine Sciences and Technology (SMAST), headed by Kevin Stokesbury as Dean.