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Principal Investigators at MIT and Collaborators in Singapore:

MIT	Singapore
Andrew J. Whittle: Lead PI E. Eric Adams George Barbastathis Elfatih A. B. Eltahir Dara Entekhabi Charles F. Harvey V. Judson Harward Harold F. Hemond Franz S. Hover John Leonard Steven R. Lerman Ole S. Madsen Leslie Norford Nicholas M. Patrikalakis Paola Rizzoli Peter Shanahan Michael S. Triantafyllou	Adams, Martin David Chan, Eng Soon Cheong, Hin Fatt Chitre, Mandar A. Chua, Hock Chye Lloyd Koh, Tieh-Yong Law, Wing-Keung Adrian Lim, Hock Beng Lo, Yat-Man Edmond Miao, Jianmin Mueller-Wittig, Karl Wolfgang Roth, Matthias Seah, Harry Shuy, Eng Ban Wijesoma, Wijerupage Sardha Wittkopf, Stephen K. Wong, Nyuk Hien

Senior Staff and Postdocs:

MIT	Singapore
Research Scientists: Wonjoon Cho Lewis Girod Research Associates: Jun Wei Postdoctoral Associates: Sai Ravela Alfred Tan ... to be added ...	Program Manager: David Burke Research Engineers: Chee Wee Tan Ruoqian Wang Postdoctoral Associates: Tirtha Bandyopadhyay Alex Cobb Peifeng Ma Ami Preis ... to be added ...

Graduate Students:

MIT	Singapore
Charlie Ambler Julie Chalfant Jose A. Dominguez-Caballero Vicente Fernandez Terianne Hall Stephen Hou Satoshi Takahashi Laura Waller ... to be added ...	Rebecca Gianotti Kam Shing Leung Rebecca Neumann ... to be added ...

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Paola Rizzoli

Professor of Physical Oceanography
Room 54-1416, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: (617) 253-2451, Fax: (617) 253-9784, E-mail: rizzoli@mit.edu

Academic Preparation:

• Lyceum "Benedetti," Venice, Italy B.S. Physics and Mathematics, highest honors, 1963
• University of Padua, Italy, Ph.D., Physics, summa cum laude, 1968
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, Ph.D., Physical Oceanography, 1978

Appointments:

• Professor, Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, MIT, 1981-present
• MIT Director of the Joint Program in Oceanography and Ocean Engineering between MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), 1997-present

Selected Honors:

• Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 2006
• Fellow, American Meteorological Society, 2002
• Winner of the 1998 Masi of the Italian government for excellence in environmental sciences

Four Recent Publications:

• P.Lionello-, P. Malanotte-Rizzoli, R. Boscolo, P. Alpert, V. Artale, L. Li, J.Luterbacher, W. May, R. Trigo, M. Tsimplis, U. Ulbrich, E. Xoplai, "The Mediterranean climate: an overview of the main characteristics and issues," in Mediterranean Climate Variability, Elsevier Publishing Company Oceanographic Series, P. Lionello, P. Malanotte-Rizzoli, R. Boscolo, eds, 1-25, 2006
• M. Jochum, R. Murtugudde, R. Ferrari and P. Malanotte-Rizzoli, "The impact of horizontal resolution on the tropical heat budget in an Atlantic ocean model," J. Climate, 18, 841-851, 2005
• M. Jochum and P. Malanotte-Rizzoli, "A new theory for the generation of the Equatorial Subsurface Countercurrents," J. Phys. Oceanogr., 34, 755-771, 2004
• M. Jochum, P. Malanotte-Rizzoli and A. Busalacchi, "Tropical instability waves in the Atlantic Ocean," Ocean Modeling, 7,145-163, 2004

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