Dr. Dustin Carroll, Project Director
Dr. Dustin Carroll is a physical oceanographer who uses state-of-the-art numerical ocean models and observations to advance our understanding of how freshwater, ice, and biogeochemical systems interact with ocean circulation. Dr. Carroll is the lead developer of the NASA ECCO-Darwin ocean biogeochemistry model and has conducted extensive fieldwork in Antarctica, the Alaskan Arctic, and Greenland. He cares deeply about conserving our oceans and connecting the public with pertinent science. Dr. Carroll is a project director at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories and an affiliate scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3174-5190
Dr. Raphaël Savelli, Research Associate
Dr. Raphaël Savelli is a marine biologist specializing in numerical modeling and data analysis to study land-ocean biogeochemical fluxes. As a Research Associate at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, he develops modeling tools to assess climate and human impacts across the land-to-ocean aquatic continuum (LOAC). Previously, at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, he advanced the ECCO-Darwin model, integrating terrestrial fluxes of carbon and nutrients into the data-assimilative solution. His expertise spans plankton ecology, coastal biogeochemistry, ecosystem modeling, and remote sensing data analysis, paving the way for a comprehensive view of carbon cycling at the land-sea interface. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4503-8243
Dr. Dimitris Menemenlis, Research Affiliate
Dr. Dimitris Menemenlis is the most recent hire of the MLML Ocean Modeling Lab and we are very excited to have him on our team. He first fell in love with programming while playing with an HP-25C as a teenager growing up in Montreal. Although an acoustical oceanographer by training, by sharing an office at MIT with Chris Hill and Stephanie Dutkiewicz during his PostDoc years, he became one of the early adopters of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology general circulation model (MITgcm), a key contributor to the Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) project, and always a very big fan of the MIT Darwin Project. He is joining Drs. Carroll and Savelli at MLML in order to help take the open-source, data-constrained ECCO-Darwin global-ocean general circulation and biogeochemistry model to the next level! ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9940-8409