Fall 2011 Honors Colloquium
Chris Roman (October 25)Use of Drones and Robots to Study the Ocean, the Atmosphere and Their Coupling.
Chris Roman is a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island specializing in ocean robotics. He has a BS from Virginia Tech and an MS from the University of California San Diego both in mechanical engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in 2005. His research interests focus on developing sensing systems and methods for acoustic and photographic sea floor mapping. This work involves underwater vehicle design, acoustic instrumentation, image processing and mapping algorithm development. He works in a variety of application areas in marine science, with the goal of finding novel new engineering solutions for interesting science questions. This work takes place in the lab, at sea and around the world.
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HELPFUL LINKS
URI Presentation - Video
The video for the URI presentation on 10/25/11
URI Faculty Profile
Chris Roman's profile page on the URI Graduate School of Oceanography website
Lab Website
Chris Roman's personal/lab page
