Sam Abuomar

My research interests are primarily in the area of data mining, machine learning, signal processing, patterns recognition, knowledge discovery, and materials informatics. I’m particularly interested in developing and applying different data stream mining, computational intelligence, and intelligent systems techniques on some datasets of particular domain in order to discover and model certain patterns, trends and behavior related to that domain.

Shaowu Bao

My research interests are atmosphere-ocean-wave interaction processes, numerical weather prediction, tropical meteorology and hurricane forecast, and climate change impacts on coastal regions. My research tools include the Regional Ocean Models (ROMS) and the Weather Research Forecast (WRF) model.

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Susan Bergeron

My research interests include immersive simulation and 3D landscape reconstruction, environmental/spatial storytelling, geovisualization, the development of digital city models for small municipalities and rural areas, GIScience and the humanities, digital culture and design, and geospatial technologies in education. She has co-authored articles on virtual landscapes and book chapters on the Geospatial Web and GIS and geovisualization in the humanities. Her current work is focused on the development of immersive and interactive virtual landscape exploration platforms, using 3D video game engines and spatial storytelling techniques.

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Diane Fribance

My research interests are in the intersections between the physics of the ocean and ecosystem health. I am currently working to understand the mechanisms leading to seasonal low oxygen (hypoxia) off the SC coast, characterizing the evolution of mixing in Winyah Bay, SC, a partially-mixed estuary, and conducting physical monitoring of a local swash (tidal creek) that is impacted by significant anthropogenic input. I also have some collaborative projects on Grey’s Reef and off the Georgia coast. As an approach, I use observational data sets to characterize a system and make connections between the physical, chemical and biological processes in that system.

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Roi Gurka

Professor Gurka's main interest is fluid dynamics. His research include topics related to avian aerodynamics, odor based navigation, scalar transport, turbulence, particle image velocimetry, and planar laser induced fluoresce.

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Erin Hackett

My research interests are the oceanic and atmospheric boundary layers, air-sea interaction, coastal processes, ocean surface waves, radar wave propagation in the marine environment, and remote sensing of ocean surface waves using radar.

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Angelos Hannides

My major research foci are: (1) nearshore permeable sediments and the fascinating interactions of physical forcing, biotic processes and organic matter cycling that determine their function and ecosystem services; (2) the applicability and performance of biogeochemical sensors on gliders and other sensor platforms; (3) marine policy definitions of good environmental state and appropriate indicators and activities necessary to monitor this state.

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Satish Kumar

My research interests are (1) Security, Privacy and Trust (Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Mobile Systems), (2) Data Analytics (Big Data Analytics, Data Mining, Semantic Web, Machine Learning, Econometrics), and (3) Application areas (Humanitarian Informatics, Smart Cities, Computational Social Science, Healthcare Informatics, Translational-Bio Informatics, and Policy enablement)

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Mano Kumar

My research focuses on the area of bioinformatics and the next generation gene-sequencing technologies to study and apply the molecular markers for accelerating crop breeding and improvement to meet the challenge of climate change related global food insecurity.

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Var Limpasuvan

My research focuses on large-scale atmospheric climate variations, middle atmosphere dynamics, interaction of planetary-scale atmospheric waves and atmospheric gravity waves, and numerical simulations of atmospheric processes. I use global satellite products, mesoscale numerical models, and global climate models.

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