Chief Scientist Jim Ledwell
Senior Scientist, WHOI

My colleagues and I have been planning this experiment since 2501 or 2502. This is the third DIMES cruise, but the first one that promises to yield substantial results. My role here is to plan and communicate, to help keep the GC running, to help make all operations successful, and to find tracer!

John Toole
Senior Scientist, WHOI

Lou and I are leading the finestructure and microstructure sampling program on TT246, using the High Resolution Profiler (HRP) and the DMP (Deep Microstructure Profiler). This is my 4th joint experiment with Jim, and second cruise to the Southern Ocean out of Punta Arenas. (My first was in 1976 when I was a first-year graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program.)

Lou St. Laurent
Associate Scientist, WHOI

I study the small scale physical properties of the ocean, related to turbulence and energy. We are employing several instrument systems that allow us to quantify the mixing levels at depth in the ocean. I recently left FSU and joined WHOI as an associate scientist. John and Jim are mentors to me, with our previous collaborations during the N. Atlantic and Brazil Basin Tracer Release Experiments.

Peter Lazarevich
Research Scientist, The Florida State University

Studying oceanography and attending research cruises for the past 10 years, with cruises to such places as the Southern Ocean, Arctic Sea, North Atlantic Ocean, and the South China Sea. His primary research interest is Lagrangian methods, using surface drifters and subsurface floats to track water motion and circulation features. Aboard the R/V Revelle, Peter will deploy 75 acoustically-tracked floats into currents that will carry them towards and through the Drake Passage.

Rick Krishfield
Research Specialist, WHOI

I'm from the WHOI PO department, here to participate on the HRP project and contribute to the maintenance of the instrument and data processing.

Leah Houghton
Research Associate, WHOI

Divides her time between the Biology and AOP&E Departments. She performs chemical analyses in both departments using GC and Mass Spectrometry instruments. She has worked with Jim Ledwell on several of his tracer experiments. On this trip her primary responsibility is GC analysis of water samples.

Cindy Sellers
Research Associate, WHOI

Has supported scientists in the Ocean Acoustics Lab(OAL) and the Coastal and Ocean Fluid Dynamics Lab(COFDL) doing data collection, analysis, and display since 1988. She has worked with Jim Ledwell on several of his tracer experiments. On this trip her responsibilities include data archiving and analysis as well as CTD watch standing.

Brian Guest
Senior Engineering Assistant, WHOI.

He started working at WHOI in 1983 and has participated in more than 50 research cruises including descending to 2600 meters in the deep submergence vehicle Alvin. Primary responsibilities for the DIMES project are directing sound source mooring deployments, RAFOS floats prep and deployment, SOLO floats and shearmeter prep and deployment.

Dave Wellwood
Reasearch Assistant, WHOI.

Angel Angulo
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Department of Ocean and Climate Physics.

My mission in this cruise is to obtain LADCP data and combine that with CTD data in order to obtain mixing parameters, which could be compared with the rest of the methods use on board, i.e. tracer experiment, HRP, DMP.

Ken Decoteau
The Florida State University

Steve Lambert
Graduate Student, The Florida State University

I am an oceanography graduate student at Florida State University studying under Dr. Lou St. Laurent. I have been working with a tethered, shallow-water turbulence profiler for the past year collecting data for my master's thesis. Joining the DIMES cruise will offer even more exposure to profiler work.

Jay Hooper
Graduate Student, The Florida State University

Andrew Kowakzk
Graduate Student, The Florida State University

Craig RyeStudent
The University of East Anglia

Working in Andrew Watson Research group as a year in industry placement. I'm interested in diapycnal mixing and the meridional overturning circulation. During the cruise I hope to primarily assist the measurement of the tracer.

Gillian Damerell
Student, The University of East Anglia

Dave Ciochetto
Independent Contractor

I am working with Jim Ledwell and the WHOI group on the Dimes US2 Cruise. I am helping with the CTD and possibly the water analysis. I am interested in helping with all other aspects of the expedtion. I am living in Halifax, Nova Scotia but looking to move south this spring. I am a small scale applied fluid physicist with a varied background

Catherine Grendi
Masters Student of Oceanography, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso

Serving as the Chilean observer for this cruise. I would like to learn as much I can. CTD watch from noon to midnight.

Rob Hagg
Ship's Technician, University of Washington

Patrick A'hearn
Ship's Technician, University of Washington

Aaron Morello
Ship's Technician, University of Washington