Alan D. Chave Senior Scientist Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering Office Phone: +1 508 289 2833 Fax: +1 508 457 2191 achave@whoi.edu
WHOI Mailing Address: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 266 Woods Hole Rd. MS# 07 Woods Hole, MA 02543-1050 Education B.S. Harvey Mudd College, 1975, Physics Ph.D. MIT/WHOI Joint Program, 1980, Oceanography Research Interests Development of permanent seafloor observatories; the use of electromagnetic methods to study the structure and evolution of the oceanic and continental lithosphere; the use of electromagnetic measurements to directly measure the barotropic flow; development of new processing and modeling algorithms for electromagnetic data; development of instrumentation to measure electromagnetic fields in the ocean; the use of abandoned submarine cables for long term seafloor data telemetry and passive measurements of the geoelectric field.

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