SEAN P. MCKENNA
Department of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Tel: (508) 289-3407
Fax: (508) 447-2132
email: smckenna@whoi.edu

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Oceanographic Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution, Cambridge, MA, 2000  Thesis title: Free-Surface Turbulence and Air–Water Gas Exchange. Thesis advisors: Dr. Wade McGillis and Dr. Erik Bock.
S.M. Oceanographic Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution, Cambridge, MA, 1997.  Thesis title: The Influence of Surface Films on Interfacial Flow Dynamics. Thesis advisor: Dr. Erik Bock.
B.S. (Magna cum laude), Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 1993.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Postdoctoral Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Sept 2000 – present.
Research Assistant, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, June 1995 – Sept 2000.
Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sept 1994 – May 1995.
Summer Student Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, June 1994 – Aug 1994.
Research Assistant, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Sept 1992 – Dec 1993.
Product Design Engineer, GE Aircraft Controls, Binghamton, NY, Jan 1992 – Aug 1992.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Near- and free-surface hydrodynamics; modification of interfacial flow by surface films; air–water transport processes; air–sea interactions; digital image velocimetry techniques.

HONORS AND AWARDS
Office of Naval Research Graduate Fellow, 1994 – 1997.
WHOI Summer Student Fellow, 1994.
SNAME Alan C. McClure Scholar, 1994.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
McKenna, S. P. and W. R. McGillis. Performance of fundamental image velocimetry techniques. Exp. Fluids, accepted.
McKenna, S. P. and W. R. McGillis. Surface divergence and air–water gas transfer. Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces, June 2000, Miami Beach, FL.
McKenna, S. P., W. R. McGillis, and E. J. Bock. Free-surface turbulence and air–water gas transfer.  Proc. 1st Intl. Symp. Turbulent and Shear Flow Phenomena, September 1999, Santa Barbara, CA.
McKenna, S. P. and E. J. Bock. Physicochemical effects of the marine microlayer on air–sea gas  transport. EUROMECH 387: Surface Slicks and Remote Sensing of Air-Sea Interactions, April 1998,  Coventry, UK.
McKenna, S. P., W. R. McGillis, and E. J. Bock.  The influence of surface films on near-surface vortical
 flows. Colloids Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects, 118:263–272, 1996.

GRADUATE ADVISORS
Dr. Wade R. McGillis, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Dr. Erik J. Bock, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/University of Heidelberg.
Prof. Michael S. Triantafyllou, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.