Staff Profile

Don Peters

Preferred Name: Donald B Peters

PRINCIPAL ENGINEER

APPLIED OCEAN PHYSICS & ENGINEERING

Email: dpeters@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 3377

Office: SMITH 310 

Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,   Mail Stop 17
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543

Education

B.S. Pratt Institute, 1988, Civil Engineering
M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992, Ocean Engineering

Research Interests

Design of mooring equipment and components: surface buoys, electromechanical terminations, and seafloor instrument packages; development of lightweight mooring systems and components; design of oceanographic instrumentation and instrument delivery systems, including ROV systems and subsystems; applied knowledge of wide range of materials for long life and corrosion control.