As a software engineer in the Support Engineering Group, I develop and support applications and systems for acquiring, storing, and visualizing MBARI collected data.

There are interesting challenges within that "great grey fuzzy territory" between data collection and eventual visualization. This is the area where MBARI's IA group works to help advance ocean science.

To provide good service I draw on my background in physical oceanography, scientific visualization, and my volunteer service at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Before coming to MBARI in February 1996 I worked for 11 years at the Naval Postgraduate School, the last few years of which I spent analyzing and visualizing the output from various versions of eddy-resolving global ocean circulation models.

On every other Thursday afternoon I get to feed the fish in the Aquarium's Kelp Forest Exhibit. Coming real soon now: a retrospective of 3 years of Kelp Cam images. Here is the view that my computer has: Live MBARI Dock Cam.

MBARI Projects - Future, present, past...

California coastline, for use with Ocean Data View
3D Dive replay, as seen at the Web3D-VRML 2000 symposium in Monterey, CA 
MBARI Expedition database, (internal) current project in 1999
Monterey Bay VRML, as seen at the 13 June 1998 Oceans Fair in Monterey, CA
ROV Data Visualization, proposed for 1999-2002
MBARI Samples database, (internal) current project in 1998
Web site redesign, 1997
CanyonHead extra-net, (internal) 1997
Test image search of V2632
Test image search of T1010

Taken by the Kelp Cam on 11 February 1999:

February 11, 1999 Feeding Show