Alan Chave
Preferred Name: Alan Chave
Emeritus Research Scholar
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering
Email:
achave@whoi.edu
Phone: 508 289 2833
Office:
Blake - 2nd Floor
Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Education
B.S. Harvey Mudd College, 1975, Physics
Ph.D. MIT/WHOI Joint Program, 1980, Oceanography
Research Interests
Development of permanent seafloor observatories; the use of electromagnetic methods to study the structure and evolution of the oceanic and continental lithosphere; the use of electromagnetic measurements to directly measure the barotropic flow; development of new processing and modeling algorithms for electromagnetic data; development of instrumentation to measure electromagnetic fields in the ocean; the use of abandoned submarine cables for long term seafloor data telemetry and passive measurements of the geoelectric field.
