Staff Profile

Fredrik Thwaites

Preferred Name: Fredrik T Thwaites

RESEARCH ENGINEER

APPLIED OCEAN PHYSICS & ENGINEERING

Email: fthwaites@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 3351

Office: SMITH 101 

Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,   Mail Stop 18
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543

Education

B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981, Mechanical Engineering
M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986, Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D. MIT/WHOI Joint Program, 1995, Oceanographic Engineering

Research Interests

Mechanical design; prototype development; fluid mechanics; fluid-induced vibration; instrumentation; signal processing; estimation and removal of platform motion from measurements.