Lab members

We are looking for new graduate students to join the lab at Virginia Institute of Marine Science | William & Mary (see opportunities) !

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:

Piero

Dr. Piero Mazzini

Assistant Professor

pmazzini@vims.edu ;
+1 (804) 684-7882

Office: Andrews Hall 236

Section: Coastal & Ocean Processes

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Dr. Mazzini is an Assistant Professor at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science | William & Mary. He is a coastal physical oceanographer, and his research focuses on understanding how the coastal ocean responds to winds, waves, tides, freshwater input from rivers, and the exchange processes among estuaries, continental shelf, and the deep ocean.

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Hobbies: surfing, camping, hiking, rock climbing, brewing, traveling, cooking.


LAB ASSOCIATE:

Cassia

Dr. Cassia Pianca

Research Associate

cpianca@vims.edu ;

Office: NERRS Water Quality Facility

Department: Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (CBNERR-VA)

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Dr. Pianca is a coastal oceanographer and data scientist working on coastal and estuarine regions. She works at the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (CBNERR -VA) at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science | William & Mary.

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GRADUATE STUDENTS:

Nathan

Nathan Shunk

Ph.D. Student - VIMS

Office: Andrews Hall 201

Section: Coastal & Ocean Processes

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Julia

Julia Abrao Teixeira

M.S. Student - VIMS

Office: Andrews Hall 201

Section: Coastal & Ocean Processes

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Ricardo

Ricardo Utzig Nardi

M.S. Student - VIMS

Office: Andrews Hall 201

Section: Coastal & Ocean Processes

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arian

Arian Dialectaquiz Santos

Ph.D. Student (co-advisor) - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (IO-USP)

Ph.D. Dissertation: Internal waves and their influence on the ocean thermodynamics in the Alcatrazes Archipelago. Advisor: Dr. Marcelo Dottori (IO-USP)


Alyssa

Alyssa Zimmer

M.S. Student - San Francisco State University

MS Thesis: Co-variability of Marine Heat Waves in San Francisco Bay and the Gulf of the Farallones.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS:


LAB ASSISTANT:

Misty

Misty Mazzini

Lab and Field Work Assistant

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Misty is a natural born oceanographer, interested in wave dynamics and the swash zone, benthic marine fauna such as crabs and sea roaches, and marine birds, especially seagulls.

Hobbies: fetching, chasing everything that moves, sleeping, eating, peanut butter, cheese, peanut butter and again peanut butter.

PAST MEMBERS:

Research Assistant

rachel Rachel Jackson
(San Francisco State University)


Graduate Students

nick 2023 - Nathan Shunk
(M.S. - Virginia Institute
of Marine Science)

nick 2021 - Nicholas Carver
(M.S. - San Francisco State
University)


Undergraduate Students

conor 2023 - Conor Padmanabhan
NSF REU Program
(Virginia Institute of Marine Science)

victorian 2023 - Victoria Florian
Capstone Project
(University of Maryland)

nick 2019 - Behlie Langel
(San Francisco State University)

rami 2019 - Rami Darraj
(San Francisco State University)

alyssa 2018 - Alyssa Zimmer
(San Francisco State University)

amanda 2018 - Amanda Young
(San Francisco State University)