Wang, Liping

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 246-251). / by Liping Wang. / Ph.D.

De Figueiredo, Mark A. (Mark Anthony), 1978-

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. / This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. / In December 1997, an international project agreement was signed in Kyoto for a collaborativ...

Waser, Nathalie Anne Danielle

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-141). / by Nathalie Anne Daniell Waser. / Ph.D.

Johnson, Kevin Todd Michael

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1990. / Vita. / Includes bibliographic references. / by Kevin Todd Michael Johnson. / Ph.D.

Bergan, Alexander (Alexander John)

Thesis: Ph. D., Joint Program in Biological Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biology; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2017. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-168). / Thecosome pteropods are planktonic mollusks that form aragonite shells and that may experience increased dissolution and other adverse effects due to ocean acidification. This thesis focuses on assessing the possible biological ef...

Auerbach, David I

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-117). / by David I. Auerbach. / M.S.

Chow, Aaron C. (Aaron Chunghin), 1978-

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-211). / One strategy to remove anthropogenic CO₂ from the atmosphere to mitigate climate change is by direct ocean injection. Liquid CO₂ can react with seawater to form solid partially reacted CO₂ hydrate composite particles (pure hydrate plus unreacted CO₂ and water) with densities several percent above ambient seawater. The most recent field ...

Thwaites, Fredrik T

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-187). / by Fredrik Turville Thwaites. / Ph.D.

Nelson, Adam (Adam T.)

Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 50-51). / In 2007, Dell made the decision to make another attempt at selling computers through the retail channel in an effort to stimulate growth. Dell has been extremely successful in the direct channel and they are...

Lewis, Craig Van de Water, 1967-

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Biology, 1997. / Vita. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-207). / by Craig Van de Water Lewis. / Ph.D.

Wetzel, Suzanne W. (Suzanne Wendy)

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-85). / by Suzanne W. Wetzel. / M.S.

Von Appen, Wilken-Jon

Thesis (Ph. D. in Physical Oceanography)--Joint Program in Physical Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2013. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-275). / Two high-resolution mooring arrays extending from the outer shelf to the mid continental slope are used to elucidate shelf-basin exchange at the inflow to and the outflow fro...

LeGrand, Pascal

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-190). / by Pascal LeGrand. / Ph.D.

Xu, Min, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2012. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references. / The structure of the oceanic lithosphere results from magmatic and extensional processes taking place at mid-ocean ridges (MORs). The temporal and spatial scales of the variability of these two processes control the degree of ...

Alamaro, Moshe, 1948-

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-79). / Thermodynamic analysis and numerical modeling of hurricane intensity has shown that its is controlled by the enthalpy transfer from the ocean surface and by drag. Direct measurements of drag, evaporation, and sensible heat transfer are not easily performed on the high seas. Therefore, a wind wave tank has been constructed in whic...

Sneeringer, Margaret Riggs

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, 1979. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Science. / Bibliography: leaves 67-68. / by Margaret Riggs Sneeringer. / M.S.

Fenty, Ian Gouverneur

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 2010. / This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. / Cataloged from student submitted PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-277). / Sea ice (SI) and ocean variability in marginal polar and subpolar seas are closely coupled. SI variability in the Labrador S...

Chechelnitsky, Michael Y. (Michael Yurievich), 1972-

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-61). / by Michael Chechelnitsky. / M.S.

Olson, Elise Marie Black

Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 2006. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. "February 2006." / Includes bibliographical references (page 35). / A parameter representing circulation due to wind forcing is added to the thermohaline circulation model of Marotzke (1996). The model consists of four boxes and is governed by a system of two differential equations governing the temperature and salinity differences between h...

Bratt, Steven Richard

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, 1985. / Vita. / Includes bibliographies. / by Steven Richard Bratt. / Ph.D.

Yu, Zhulin

Thesis: S.M. in Geophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 2015. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 34-39). / We apply a generalized Radon transform (GRT) to SKKS data to obtain a large-scale high-resolution image of the lowermost mantle (400 kilometers above the core-mantle boundary) beneath the Pacific Ocean (125° E-75°W, 45° S-65°N in this work). More than 4,000,000 radial teles...

Foda, Mostafa Ameen

Thesis (Sc.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1980. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ENGINEERING. / Includes bibliographies. / by Mostafa Ameen Foda. / Sc.D.

Hufford, Gwyneth Ellin

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-73). / by Gwyneth Ellin Hufford. / M.S.

Clark, Nathan Edward

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Meteorology. Thesis. 1967. Ph.D. / Vita. / Bibliography: leaves 144-147. / Ph.D.

Das, Lita

Thesis (S.M. in Engineering Systems)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2013. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-104). / As ocean shipments have increased alongside globalization, transit time uncertainty has increased as well. This problem was observed to have variable levels of impacts on logistics cost and safety stock levels. This thesis examines the effects of bimodality in transit time distributions -in p...

Stanley, Rachel H. R

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Chemical Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-225). / The five noble gases (helium, neon, argon, krypton, and xenon) are biologically and chemically inert, making them ideal oceanographic tracers. Additionally, the noble gases have a wide range of solubilities and molecular diffusivities, and thus...

Hyatt, Jason

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2006. / Includes bibliographical references. / Two years of moored oceanographic and automatic weather station data which span the winter ice seasons of 2001-2003 within Marguerite Bay on the western Antarctic Peninsula (wAP) shelf were collected as part of the Southern Ocea...

Israelsson, Peter H. (Peter Hampus), 1973-

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2008. / This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. / Includes bibliographical references. / This thesis consists of four separate studies which explore the use of random walk particle tracking (RWPT) in simulating environmental mass transport. Two of the studies also consider the efficacy and ...

Xiao, Wenting, 1982-

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2013. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-267). / It is challenging to obtain accurate predictions of ocean surface wavefield evolutions due to several complex dynamic processes involved, including nonlinear wave interaction, wave breaking and wind forcing, and also wave interactions with currents and bottom bathymetry. With fast computational algorithms for ...

Mauritzen, Cecilie

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 205-212). / by Cecilie Mauritzen. / Ph.D.

Scott, Jeffery R

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-128). / The dynamics of the oceanic large-scale meridional overturning circulation are investigated through a series of numerical experiments using an idealized single-hemisphere general circulation model. In addition to the system's scaling behavior, the consequences of diapycnal mixing location, the impact of deep buoyancy fluxes, and t...

Dündar, Gökhan

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2012. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 88-91). / Utility scale energy storage is needed to balance rapidly varying outputs from renewable energy systems such as wind and solar. In order to address this need, an innovative utility scale energy storage concept has been created by the Precision Engineering Research Group (PERG) at MIT. The concept is to build hollo...

Weidman, Christopher R. (Christopher Ray)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-126). / by Christopher R. Weidman. / Ph.D.

Srinivasan, Jagannathan

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2011. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-294). / Fish populations often comprise the largest biomass in a productive marine ecosystem. They typically play an essential role in inter-trophic energy transport, and serve as a mainstay for human consumption comprising roughly 16% of the animal protein consumed by the world's population. Despite their ecological ...

Mazzei, David P. C. (David Peter Clark)

Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 88). / During Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition Leg 308, many Whole Core Samples were recovered from the Ursa Basin in the Gulf of Mexico. Post-cruise geotechnical testing found these samples to be highly disturbed due to the sampling process. This research will determine mechanical properties of laboratory Resedimented samples...

Dansereau, Véronique

Thesis (S.M.)--Joint Program in Physical Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2012. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-123). / Interactions between the ocean circulation in sub-ice shelf cavities and the overlying ice shelf have received considerable attention in the context of observed changes in flow speeds of marine ice sheets a...

Dail, Holly Janine

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2012. / This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. / Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-236). / This thesis focuses on ocean circulation and a...

Archfield, Stacey A. (Stacey Anne), 1976-

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 33). / A record of carbon dioxide for the last 400,000 years revealed that atmospheric CO2 decreased from a pre-industrial concentration of 280 ppmV to approximately 200 ppmV during the last glacial maximum (Petit et al., 1999). Several hypotheses as to why this happened have been suggested yet no one explanation has been able to fully accou...

Farrar, J. Thomas (John Thomas), 1976-

Thesis (M.S.)--Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-191). / In this thesis I have endeavored to determine the factors and physical processes that controlled SST and thermocline depth at 10⁰N, 125⁰W during the Pan Amer- ican Climate Study (PACS) field program. Analysis based on ...

Xu, Wen, 1967-

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 207-215). / Matched-field methods concern estimation of source location and/or ocean environmental parameters by exploiting full wave modeling of acoustic waveguide propagation. Typical estimation performance demonstrates two fundamental limitations. first, side...

Rodríguez Buño, Mariana

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2013. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 126-130). / The world is facing the challenge of finding new renewable sources of energy - first, in response to fossil fuel reserve depletion, and second, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) can provide renewable energy by making use of the temperature difference between ...

Blackman, Donna K

Thesis (M.S.)--Joint Program in Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 1986. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-91). / by Donna Kay Blackman. / M.S.

Maroon, Elizabeth A

Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 2010. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 49-52). / The Arctic atmosphere is especially sensitive to changes in climate forcing; however, Arctic processes and feedbacks are not understood well enough to accurately predict how the Arctic environment might change under anthropogenic forcing. Further study of the basic atmospheric processes ...

Gruber, Timothy J. (Timothy James)

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2012. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-75). / An experimental analysis of a Venturi shrouded hydro turbine for wave energy conversion. The turbine is designed to meet the specific power requirements of a, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute offshore monitoring buoy using a unique gumby hose mooring system. The buoy's mission is to monitor the Massachusetts Bay...

Caulfield, Jennifer Ann

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-113). / by Jennifer Ann Caulfield. / M.S.

Wood, Christie L. (Christie Lynn)

Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 2005. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (page 44). / The oceanic circulation plays a significant role in earth's climate by transporting heat polewards. Here the ocean's thermohaline circulation is studied using the Marotzke and Stone four box ocean-atmosphere model under both the buoyancy constraint proposed by Stommel and the energy constrai...

Gunson, James Reginald

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-68). / by James Reginald Gunson. / M.S.

Liu, Jin-Yuan

Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-194). / by Jin-Yuan Liu. / Sc.D.

Eriksen, Charles Curtis

Thesis. 1977. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Science. / Vita. / Bibliography : leaves 162-165. / Ph.D.

Hmelo, Laura Robin

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2010. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references. / Quorum sensing (QS) via acylated homoserine lactones (AHLs) was discovered in the ocean, yet little is known about its role in the ocean beyond its involvement in certain symbiotic interac...