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    Past and Present Thesis  Students of

  Distinguished Professor Peter C. Chu

             in time reverse order  

Advise:

(57)  Patrick Earls, “Effect of Bottom Roughness on Acoustic Scattering for Mine Warfare from Multibeam Echo Sounders,” MS in Physical  Oceanography, September 2012 [co-advisers: Ronald E. Bestch, Roger Meridith (NAVO)].

 

(56) Jason Gipson, “Model for Analyzing Autonomous Advanced Undersea Weapons Systems Alternatives,” MS in Meteorology and  Oceanography, September 2012 [co-advisers: Ronald E. Bestch, Pete Fleischer (NAVO)].

 

(55) Timothy Knapp, “Development of the Acoustic Resurvey Planning Model with Joint Optimization of Sampling and Sensing,” MS in Meteorology and  Oceanography, September 2012 [co-adviser: Ronald E. Bestch (NAVO)].

 

 (54) Scott Miller, “Meteorology and Oceanography for Optimum Ship Routing,” MS in Meteorology and  Oceanography, September 2012 [co-adviser: James Hanson (NRL)].

 

 (53)  Kristi Colpo, “Joint Sensing/Sampling optimization for Surface Drifting Mine Detection with High-resolution NCOM Drift Model,” MS in Meteorology and  Oceanography, September 2012 [co-advisers: Thomas Wettergren(NUWC-NPT), Ronald E. Bestch (NAVO)] .

 

(52)  Joses Yau, “Localization of Surface or Near-Surface Drifting Mines in the Persian Gulf ,” MS in Physical  Oceanography, June 2012 [co-adviser: Prof. Timothy Chung (Department of Systems Engineering), second reader: Ronald E. Bestch (NAVO)].

 

(51)  Bryan Y. Hong, “An Effective Noise Filtering Method for Mine Detection,” MS in Meteorology and  Oceanography, September 2011 [co-adviser: Ronald E. Betsch (NAVO)].

  

(50)  Christopher Beuligmann, “Mine Burial Expert System for Change of Mine Warfare Doctrine,” MS in Physical Oceanography, September 2011 [co-adviser:  Ronald E. Betsch and Peter Fleischer (NAVO)]. This thesis was selected for the Surface Navy Association Award for September 2011 for Academic Excellence in Surface Warfare 

      

(49)  Samantha Poteete, “Navy’s N-Layer Magnetic Model with Application to Naval Magnetic Demining”, MS in Meteorology and  Oceanography, September 2010 [co-advisers:  Ronald E. Betsch and Roger Meridith (NAVO)].

 

(48)  Jillene Bushnell, “Prediction of Bomb Trajectory for Mine Breaching”, MS in Meteorology and  Oceanography, December 2009 [co-adviser:  Brian Almquist (ONR)]. Part of the thesis was published in the Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, 2011 (paper download).

 

(47)  John P. Garstka, “Optimizing U.S. Navy Mine Warfare and Department of Homeland Security Maritime Security Requirements: A Quantitative Analysis of Bottom Sediments to Determine Analogous Areas in the Strait of Hormuz and Continental United States.”  (Secret) MS in Meteorology and Oceanography, September 2009 [co-adviser: Ronald E. Betsch (NAVO)]. It is a secret thesis, which was nominated for the NUWC Award and NSWC award.

 

(46)   Nicola Wheatley, “Determining Route Survey Periodicity for Mine Warfare: Investigation of Bedforms, Waves, Tides, and Currents.”  MS in Physical Oceanography, September 2009. LT Wheatley obtained the International Student Award. Part of the thesis was published as a chapter in the book entitled “Coastal Processes II”, WIT Press, ISBN: 1746-448X, 2011.

 

(45)  Hartwell Coke, “Route Survey Periodicity for Mine Warfare,” MS in Meteorology and  Oceanography, September 2009 [co-adviser:  Ronald  E. Betsch (NAVO)]. This thesis was selected for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport Award for Excellence in Undersea Warfare. This thesis is unclassified with secret appendix.

 

(44)  David Hudson, “Similarity Analysis of Littoral Environments between Korean and U.S. Coasts for Mine Warfare,.” (Secret)  MS in Physical Oceanography, September 2008 [co-adviser:  Ronald Betsch (NAVO)]. Dave  obtained an award from the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) for this thesis research.

 

 (43)  Haris Rana, “Spatial and Temporal Variability of the Indian Ocean Surface Currents Determined from Satellite Data with Application to Naval Operations”, MS in Physical Oceanography, June 2008 [co-adviser:  Charles Sun (NOAA/NODC)] (ppt presentation).

 

(42) Travis Clem, “Oceanographic Effects on Maritime Threats:  Mines and Oil Spills in the Strait of Hormuz,” MS in Meteorology and Oceanography, March 2007 [Co-advised by  Steven Haeger (NAVO)] (ppt presentation). Part of the thesis was presented in the 26th International  Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Perugia, Italy, July 2-13, 2007 (presentation download); and  the 7th Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, American Meteorological Society, San Diego, California, September 10-14, 2007.

 (41) Charles Williams, “Environmental Impact on the Northern Persian Gulf Chemical Spill and Mine Drift Centered on Iraq’s Oil Terminals using Navy’s Ocean-Atmospheric Physical and Chemical Models,” MS in Meteorology and Oceanography, March 2007 [co-adviser:  Steven Haeger (NAVO)] (ppt presentation).

 

 (40) Chung-Ping Hsieh, “Effect of internal solitary waves on the mine detection in western Philippine Sea east of Taiwan”, MS in Physical Oceanography, December 2006 [co-adviser: Mel Wagstaff (NAVO)] (ppt presentation). Part of the thesis was published in the Indian Journal of Marine Sciences, 36, 141-151, 2007 (paper download);  Journal of Oceanography, 63 (6), 927-939, 2007(paper download); and Marine Technology Society Journal, in press (paper download).

 (39) Kuofeng Cheng, "Typhoon effects on the South China Sea wave characteristics during winter monsoon", MS in Physical Oceanography, March 2006 (ppt presentation). Part of the thesis was published in the Journal of Marine Systems, 66, 122-129, 2007 (paper download).; and Journal of Oceanography, 64, 1-21, 2008  (paper download).

 

(38) Charles Allen, "Mine drop experiments with operational mine shapes", MS in Meteorology and Oceanography, March 2006 [co-adviser: Peter Fleischer (NAVO)] (ppt presentation). Part of the thesis was published in the Proceedings on the Seventh Monterey International Symposium on Technology and Mine Problems,  2006 (paper download).

 

(37) Greg Ray, "Bomb strike experiments for mine countermeasure", MS in Meteorology and Oceanography, March 2006 [co-adviser: Peter Fleischer (NAVO)] (ppt presentation). Part of the thesis was published in the Advances in Fluid Mechanics, 6, 123-132, 2006; and Proceedings on the  Seventh Monterey International Symposium on Technology and Mine Problems,  2006 (paper download).

(36) Guillermo Amezaga, "Impact of GFO satellite and ocean nowcast/forecast systems for Naval anti-submarine warfare (ASW)", MS in Meteorology and Oceanography, March 2006 [co-adviser: Eric Gottshall (ONR)] (ppt presentation). Part of the thesis was published in the Marine Technology Society Journal, 41 (2), 23-30, 2007 (paper download).

 

(35) Patrice Pauly, "Sensitivity study of St.Andrew Bay rapid response system for Naval Applications", MS in Physical Oceanography (with distinction), June 2005 [Co-advised by Steven D. Haeger (NAVO)] (ppt presentation). Part of the thesis was published in the book: Coastal Environment and Water Quality, , edited by  Y. Jun Xu and Vijay P. Singh, Water Resources Publications (ISBN-13: 978-1-887201-47-6), 47-68 (paper download).

 

(34) Kleanthis Kyriakidis, "Baroclinicity, forcing mechanism,and prediction of chemical propagation of San Diego Bay and their effects on Naval applications", MS in Physical Oceanography (with distinction) June 2005 [Co-advised by Steven D. Haeger (NAVO)] (ppt presentation). Part of the thesis was published in the book: Coastal Environment  and Water Quality, edited by  Y. Jun Xu and Vijay P. Singh, Water Resources Publications (ISBN-13: 978-1-887201-47-6), 69-90  (paper download).

   

(33) Steven Mancini, "Sensitivity of satellite data assimilation on naval anti-submarine warfare weapon system", MS in Meteorology and Oceanography, September 2004 [Co-advised by Charlie Barron (NRL)] (ppt presentation). Part of the thesis was published in the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 41 (2), 23-30, 2007 (paper download).

 

(32) Michael Cornelius, "Effect of a suspended sediment layer on acoustic imagery", MS in Meteorology and Oceanography, June 2004 [Co-advised by Mel Wagstaff (NAVO)] (ppt presentation). Part of the thesis was published in the Marine Technology Society Journal, 39 (2), 105-109, 2005 (paper download); and the U.S. Navy Journal of Underwater Acoustics, 2006. 

 

(31) Albert Armstrong, "Prediction of instantaneous currents in San Diego Bay for naval applications", MS in Meteorology and Oceanography, June 2004 [Co-advised by Steve Haeger (NAVO)] (ppt presentation).

 

(30) Chin-Lung Fang, "Predictability of Japan/East Sea (JES) system to uncertain initial/lateral boundary conditions and surface winds", MS in Physical Oceanography, September 2003 [Co-advised by Steve Haeger (NAVO)] (ppt presentation). Part of this thesis was published in the Continental Shelf Research, 25, 2107-2121, 2005 (paper download).

(29) Michael Perry, "Value-added of satellite altimetry data for undersea acoustic preset", MS in Physical Oceanography, June 2003 [Co-advised by Eric Gottshall (SPAWAR)]. This thesis was nominated by the Navy for the National Geospatial Academic Achievement Award in 2004 (ppt presentation); and published in Marine Technology Society Journal, 38(1), 11-23, 2004 (paper download).

(28) Ahchuang Ong, "Diagnostic initialization of coastal ocean models", MS in Physical Oceanography, March 2003 [Co-advised by Steve Haeger (NAVO)] (ppt presentation).

 

 (27) Rodrigo Obino, "Simulation of the Bohai Sea circulation and thermohaline structure using COHERENS model". MS in Physical Oceanography, June 2002 [Co-advised by Steve Haeger (NAVO)] (ppt presentation).  

(26) Ashley Evans, "Hydrodynamics of mine impact burial", MS in Meteorology and Oceanography, September 2002 [Co-advised by Peter Fleischer (NAVO)] (ppt presentation). Part of the thesis was published in the Journal of Applied Mechanics, 71, 292-298, 2004 (paper download); and Proceedings on MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2003 (paper download)

   

(25) Nick Vares, "Mine hunting and detection using the Navy's CASS-GRAB model." MS in Physical Oceanography, June 2002 [Co-advised by Steve Haeger (NAVO)] (ppt presentation). Part of the thesis was published in the U.S. Navy Journal of Underwater Acoustics, 54, 347-367, 2004.

 

(24) Anthony Gilles, "Mine drop experiment", MS in Meteorology and Oceanography, September 2001 [Co-advised by Steve Haeger (NAVO)] (ppt presentation). Part of the thesis was published in Advances in Fluid Mechanics, 4, 163-181, 2002 (paper download).; Journal of Applied Mechanics, 71, 292-298, 2004 (paper download);  (paper download); Proceedings on MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2003; Experimental and Thermal Fluid Sciences, 29, 555-568, 2005 (paper download); and Proceedings on Fifth International Symposium on Technology and Mine Problems, 2002 (paper download).

 

(23) Michael J. Roth, "A coastal air-ocean coupled system (CAOCS) for east Asian marginal seas prediction", MS in Meteorology and Oceanography, September 2001 [Co-advised by Steve Haeger (NAVO)] (ppt presentation).

 (22) Cintron, Carlos, "Environmental impact on mine hunting in the Yellow Sea using the CASS-GRAB model", MS in Physical Oceanography, March 2001 [Co-advised by Steve Haeger (NAVO)] (ppt presentation). Part of the thesis was published in the book “Impact of Littoral Environmental Variability on Acoustic Predictions and Sonar Performance”,  Kluwer Science Publishing Co., 563-570 (paper download).

 

(21) Smith, Timothy, "Validation of the mine impact burial model using experimental data", MS in Meteorology and Oceanography, September 2000 [Co-advised by Steve Haeger (NAVO)] (ppt presentation). Part of the thesis was published in: Application of Technology to Demining, Part-2: Naval Mine Countermeasures (edited by A.M. Bottoms and C. Scandreff), The Society for Counter-Ordnance Technology, 127-136, 2005 (paper download).

 

(20) Strauhs, Hilbert, "A numerical study on Japan/East Sea (JES) circulation and thermohaline structure", MS in Physical Oceanography, September 1999 [Co-advised by Michael Carron (NAVO)]. Part of the thesis was published in the Estuarine and Coastal Modeling, 6, American Society of Civil Engineering, 94-113, 2000 (paper download).

 

(19) Taber, Victoria L., "Environmental sensitivity studies on mine impact burial prediction model", MS in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, March 1999 [Co-advised by Steve Haeger (NAVO)]. Part of the thesis was published in the Proceedings on the Fourth International Symposium on Technology and the Mine Problem, 10 pages, 2000 (paper download).

 (18) Ma, Bin-Bing, "Seasonal and interannual thermohaline variability determined by the Navy's MOODS data", MS in Physical Oceanography, September 1998. Part of the thesis was published in the Acta Oceanologia Sinica, 21, 227-261, 2002 (paper download).

  

 (17) Veneziano, Joseph, "Hurricane Effects on the South China Sea Thermal Structure" MS in Physical Oceanography and Meteorology, March 1998 [Co-advised by Steve Haeger (NAVO)]. Part of the thesis was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 13991-14009, 2000 (paper download).

  

(16)   Kuniyaka, Akira, "East China Sea Thermal Structure", MS in Physical Oceanography, December 1997. Part of the thesis was published in the Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 22, 1-20, 2005 (paper download).

 

(15)  Gottshall, Eric, "Environmental Effects on Naval warfare simulations," MS in Meteorology and  Oceanography, December 1997. Part of the thesis was published in the Marine Technology Society Journal, 38(1), 11-23, 2004 (paper download); U.S. Navy Journal of Underwater Acoustics, 54, 747-774, 2004; IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 32 (2), 453-468, 2007 (paper download); and Marine Technology Society Journal, 41 (2), 23-30, 2007 (paper download).

 

(14)  Edmons, Nate, "South China Sea ocean circulations simulated by a primitive equation model," MS in Physical Oceanography, September 1996 [Co-advised by Steve Haeger (NAVO)]. A research paper from this thesis was published in the Journal of Physical Oceanography, 29, 2971-2989, 1999 (paper download).

(13) Tseng, Hsing-Chia, "South China Sea warm-core and cold-core eddies detected from the Navy's Master Oceanographic Observation Data Set (MOODS) ," MS in Physical Oceanography, September 1995 [Co-advised by Steve Haeger (NAVO)]. A research paper from this thesis was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, 15761-15771, 1997 (paper download).  

(12) Wells, Susan K., "Temporal and spatial decorrelation scales of the Yellow Sea thermal fields," MS in Meteorology and Oceanography, September 1994 [Co-advised by Michael Carron (NAVO)]. A research paper from this thesis was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, 5655-5668, 1997 (paper download).

 

(11) Fralick, Charles., "Yellow Sea thermal structure," MS in Meteorology and Oceanography, September 1994 [Co-advised by Steve Haeger (NAVO)]. A research paper from this thesis was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, 10499-10508. 1997 (paper download).

(10) Li, Ching-Chung, "A numerical simulation of seasonal circulation in the South China Sea," MS in Physical Oceanography, March 1994 [Co-advised by Dong S. Ko (NRL)]. Part of thesis was published in Proceedings “Air-Sea Interaction and Coastal Meteorology and Oceanography, American Meteorological Society, 2, 214-215, 1994.”

 (9) Montenegron, Gonzalo, "Three dimensional vorticity field in the California current system," MS in Physical Oceanography, March 1993.

 

(8) Li, Wei-Szu, "Using the C-vector method to derive the three dimensional circulation pattern near the east Greenland polar front," MS in Physical Oceanography , December 1992. Part of the thesis was presented at the Third Symposium on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, American Meteorological Society , Portland, Oregon, 29 September - 2 October 1992.

  

(7) Kuo, You-Hen, "Errors caused by incompatible wind and buoyancy forcing in the ocean general circulation models," MS in Meteorology, December 1992 . Part of thesis was published in the Proceedings “Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, 4, 52-53, 1993”.

 

(6) Konstandinidis, Simon, "C-Vector derived three dimensional circulation in Farallones national marine sanctuary," MS in Physical Oceanography, December 1992. Part of the thesis was presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 7-11 December 1992.

 

(5) Steadley, Robert S., "Thermodynamic air/ocean feedback mechanisms in the equatorial Pacific," MS in Meteorology and Oceanography, September 1992. Part of the thesis was presented at the Tenth Symposium on Turbulence and Diffusion, American Meteorological Society, Portland, Oregon, 29 September - 2 October 1992.

 

(4) Yin, T.C., "Test of a convective cloud model with soundings during the TCM-90 field experiment" MS in Meteorology, March 1992. Part of the thesis was presented at the Tenth Symposium on Turbulence and Diffusion, American Meteorological Society, Portland, Oregon, 29 September - 2 October 1992.

 

(3) Crabtree, Gregory D., "Computer simulation of acoustic fluctuations due to fine scale temperature perturbations measured by thermistor chain," MS in Physical Oceanography and Meteorology, March 1992.

 

(2) Wu, Pao-Kun, "Cloud effect on ocean mixed layer in the Northern Pacific Ocean" MS in Physical Oceanography, June 1991. Part of the thesis was presented at the American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, 5-10 January 1992.

 

(1) Tsai, Ching-Mao, "Sub-mesoscale eddies in California Current", MS in Physical Oceanography, June 1990. Part of the thesis was presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 4-8 December 1989.

 

 Co-Advise:

 

(1) Livezey, Mendal S., "Discrete precipitation effects on seasonal mixed layer dynamics in the north Pacific," MS in Meteorology and Oceanography, September 1988.

 

(2) Tucker, Ahmet., "Evaporation effect on the Mediterranean Sea mixed layer dynamics," MS in Physical Oceanography, September 1988.

 

(3) Kent, John, "Air-sea interaction patterns in the equatorial Pacific," MS in Physical Oceanography and Meteorology, December 1993.

 

(4) Nicklin, Michael, "A study of the relationship between south Asian monsoon convection and tropical upper easterly jet using INSAT data," MS in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, December 1996.

 

(5) Jimenez, Gregory, "Diurnal variation over the tropical monsoon regions during Northern summer" MS in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, March 1997.

 

PhD Committees

 

(1) Marom, Moshe, “Interferometric synthetic aperture radar imaging of ocean surface currents and wavefields”, Ph.D dissertation in Physical Oceanography, June 1990.

 

(2) Guest, Peter S., “A numerical, analytical and observational study of the effect of clouds on surface wind and wind stress during the central Arctic winter”, Ph.D dissertation in Meteorology, March 1992.

 

(3) Prazuck, Christopher, “Anomalous diurnal currents in the vicinity of the Yermak Plateau”, Ph.D dissertation in Physical Oceanography, June 1991.

 

(4) Church, Casey, “Topics in long shore currents”, Ph.D dissertation in Physical Oceanography, September 1993.

 

(5) Chumbinho, Rogerio, “Kinematics and dynamics of a cyclonic eddy off Pt. Arena, California”, Ph.D dissertation in Physical Oceanography, December 1994.

 

(6) Parson, A. R., “On the Barents Sea polar front in summer and interpretations of the associated regional oceanography using an Arctic Ocean general circulation model”, Ph.D dissertation in Physical Oceanography, September 1995.

 

(7) Yu, Chen-Kuo, "A theorem of anisotropic absorbers", Ph.D. Dissertation, Electric and Computer Engineering, March 1997.

 

(8) External Committee Member for Hur, Hong Boem, “Water mass formation and seasonal variations in the Yellow and East China Seas and effect on the density driven circulation.” Ph.D. Dissertation, the University of Southern Mississippi.

(9) Titley, David W., “Intensification and structure change of super typhoon Flo as related to the large-scale environment”, Ph.D. Dissertation, Meteorology, June 1998.

 

(10) Whisenhant, Michelle, “ Planetary boundary layer parameterization for COAMPS, Ph.D. Dissertation, Meteorology, September 2003.

 

(11) Eleuterio, Daniel, P., “ Evolution of the stratocumulus topped boundary layer and the role of entrainment in the coastal zone. Ph.D. Dissertation, Meteorology, June 2004.