Peter C. Chu

Distinguished Professor and Chair

Department of Oceanography
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA  93940

Funded Research

(in time reverse order)

2024-2028     DoD Co-Performer, Depth of Burial of UXO in Estuary Environment. DoD Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP)

2019-2023     Principal Investigator, Coupled-Ensemble Sea-floor Environment and 6-DoF Model. DoD Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP)

2018-2018 Principal Investigator, Probabilistic 6-DOF Model for Subsurface Mine Drift/Oscillation Prediction. Naval Postgraduate School Foundation.

2016-2018     Principal Investigator, Electro-Optic Detection in Littoral for MIW/ASW Using Navy’s EODES Model and Optic Data.  Office of Naval   Research

2017-2018      Principal Investigator, Synoptic Monthly Gridded and Ocean Modeled Data to Assess Submarine Vulnerability. OPNAV-Naval Research Program

2017-2018      Principal Investigator, Transfer and Correlation Function between Underwater Hydrographical and Optical Parameters. OPNAV- Naval Research Program

2016-2016       Principal Investigator, Effects of Salinity and Chlorophyll on Underwater Optical  Communication and Detection. Naval  Postgraduate School Foundation

2016-2016       Investigator, Salinity Effect on Underwater Optical   Communication and Detection. Office of Naval Research/NEPTUNE (PI: Daniel  Nussbaum).

2015-2016      Principal Investigator, Electro-Optic Detection in Littoral for MIW/ASW Using Navy’s EODES Model and Glider-Measured Optic Data,  Office of Naval  Research/CRUSER

2014-2015       Principal Investigator, Glider‐Measured Underwater Bioluminescence for Submarine Minefield Navigation. Office of Naval  Research/CRUSER

2014-2014       Principal Investigator,  Implementation of 3D Underwater Bomb Trajectory Model (STRIKE35) into Technical Decision Aid, Office of Naval Research

2014-2014   Principal Investigator, Research on Conceptual Design and Concepts of Operations for the Future Autonomous Systems for Naval Mine  Warfare, LIG NEXI

2013-2014      Principal Investigator,  Development of Precision Mine Detectin Capability through Analysis of Rapid, Airborne, Reconnaissance (ROAR) Data, Office of Naval Research

2012-2013     Principal Investigator,  Corporation of Navy’s Ocean Data into UUV Path Panning with Obstacle Avoidance, Office of Naval Research/CRUSER

2012-2013     Principal Investigator, Littoral Oceanography for Mine Warfare with Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV), Naval   Oceanographic Office

2011-2012    Principal Investigator, Joint Optimization of Sensing and Sampling, Office of Naval Research.

2011-2012   Principal Investigator, Mine Detection and Localization, Naval Oceanographic Office.

2001-2011   Principal Investigator, Littoral Oceanography for Mine   Warfare,  Naval Oceanographic Office

2010-2011 Principal Investigator, Bi-Dimensional Empirical Mode Decomposition for  Mine Detection and Change Detection, Naval Oceanographic Office

2009-2011   Principal Investigator, Underwater Bomb Trajectory Prediction for JABS from Very Shallow Water to Deep Water, Office of Naval Research

2006-2009     Principal Investigator, Optimal Spectral Decomposition (OSD) for Analysis of GTSPP/Argo Data2008-2009     Principal Investigator, Wave Effect on Underwater Bomb Trajectory and Tail Separation, Office of Naval Research

 2008-2009     Principal Investigator, Red Team IED Attack, Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization.

2007-2009     Principal Investigator, Priorities and Focus Areas of Chinese Oceanographic Research, Office of Naval Research International Field Office.

2005-2006     Principal Investigator, Oceanography for Campaign Analysis on Undersea Warfare, Naval Oceanographic Office

2005-2006     Principal Investigator, Development and Verification of the Navy’s 3D Mine Impact Burial Prediction Model (IMPACT35) Office of Naval Research

 2003-2004     Principal Investigator, Upgrade of the Hydrodynamic Component of the Navy’s Mine Impact Burial Prediction Model (IMPACT28), Office of Naval Research

 2002-2004     Principal Investigator, Value-Aided of Altimetry Data to Undersea Warfare Using Mark 48 Table Group Selection, Space and Naval Warfare Command

 2002          Principal Investigator, Distance Learning, CNET

 2001-2002     Principal Investigator, Assessment and Reconstruct of Navy’s Mine Impact Burial Prediction Model, Office of Naval Research

 2001-2002     Principal Investigator, Theoretical Analysis of Predictability, Office of Naval Research

 2001-2002     Principal Investigator, South China Sea and Japan Sea Modeling, Naval Oceanographic Office

 2001-2002     Principal Investigator, Assessment of the Navy’s South China Sea and Japan Sea Modeling, Naval Oceanographic Office

 2001-2002  Principal Investigator, Synthetic Ocean for Modeling, Virtual Environment, and Simulation (MOVES) Using the ArcView  Geographic Information System (GIS), CNO-N6M

2000-2001     Principal Investigator, Laboratory Development for Modeling and Simulation in Ocean Environment, CNO-N6M

 2000-2001     Principal Investigator, Determination of Coastal Ocean Sampling Rate, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command

2000-2001     Principal Investigator, Effectiveness Increase of Joint Simulation System Using the Navy METOC Data and Models, Naval Oceanographic Office

 1999-2000     Principal Investigator, Mine Burial Modeling, Naval Oceanographic Office

 1999-2000     Principal Investigator, Environmental Effects on Joint Warfare Simulations, Naval Oceanographic Office

1998-1999     Co-Principal Investigator, Oceanography for Mine Warfare in the East China Sea, Naval Oceanographic Office

1998-1999     Principal Investigator, Coastal Ocean-Atmospheric Coupled System , Office of Naval Research

 1998-1999     Principal Investigator, Oceanography for Mine Warfare in the South China Sea, Naval Oceanographic Office

1998-1999     Principal Investigator, Mine Impact Burial Model Sensitivity Study, Naval Oceanographic Office

 1998              Principal Investigator, Rapid Environmental Assessment from Lagrangian Observations, Office of Naval Research International Field Office

1997-1999     Principal Investigator, Improvement of the South China Sea Prediction System Using NSCAT Winds, NASA/JPL (through California State University, Monterey Bay)

 1997-1998     Principal Investigator, Environmental Effects on Naval Warfare Simulations, Naval Oceanographic Office

1997-1998     Principal Investigator, Shallow Water Analysis/Forecast System for the South China Sea, Office of Naval Research

 1995-1996     Principal Investigator, Analysis of the U.S. Navy’s MOODS data set for the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean (SHEBA) Experiment, Office of Naval Research

 1995-1996  Principal Investigator, Circulation and Diffusion Studies in the South China Sea, Office of Naval Research

1995-1996  Co-Principal Investigator, Studies in the California Current Systems, Office of Naval Research

 1993-1996     Principal Investigator, Littoral Zone Naval Ocean Prediction Systems, Naval Oceanographic Office

 1994-1995  Principal Investigator, Coastal Ocean Diagnostic/Prognostic System, Office of Naval Research

 1993-1994   Principal Investigator, Evaluation of Naval Ocean Prediction Systems, Naval Oceanographic Office

 1993-1994   Principal Investigator, Cloud-Mixed Layer Feedback Using NPS Surface Mixed Layer Model, Office of Naval Research

 1991-1993     Co-Principal Investigator, Enhancement to Deep Oceanic Convection in the Arctic System, National Science Foundation

 1991          Principal Investigator, Naval Ocean Analysis and Prediction, Naval Postgraduate School Direct Fund (Reviewed by the Office of Naval Research).

 1986-1990   Co- Principal Investigator, Coupled Oceanic and Atmospheric Boundary Layers, Naval Postgraduate School Direct Fund (Reviewed by the Office of Naval Research)