Frank W. Spada

Oceanography, Various Sites Planning and organization of marine research projects from inception to completion. Chief scientist on research cruises (participation in more than 50 cruises). Responsible for success of field operations (e.g., mooring deployment and recovery, shipboard profilers).  On-deck supervision of engineers, technicians, researchers, and students.  Logistical coordination of research cruises in shallow and deep ocean marine environments.  Tasks include vessel scheduling, mobilization, loading, and off-loading of equipment; operation of marine engineering equipment during deployment and recovery of ocean moorings and profilers; and interfacing between engineers and researchers.  International and domestic shipping logistics. Apply relevant knowledge and understanding of oceanographic concepts to establish engineering design criteria for deployments of oceanographic instrumentation systems. System design, testing, and implementation of real-time data telemetry systems between sea and shore using various technologies.  Presentations of scientific results and technological developments in mooring engineering and ocean sensors at professional ocean science and technology conferences and workshops, and project feasibility at principal investigator planning meetings. Sites include: The Hyperspectral Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment (HyCODE), Tuckerton, New Jersey The Bermuda Testbed Mooring, Saint George, Bermuda Multidisciplinary Ocean Sensors for Environmental Analyses and Networks (MOSEAN), Honolulu, Hawaii, and Santa Barbara, California Radiance in a Dynamic Ocean, San Diego, California, and Honolulu, Hawaii CEROS, Santa Cruz, California, Waimanalo, Hawaii, and Duck, North Carolina UCLA Mooring, Santa Monica, California Bunbury Drifter Study, Bunbury, Western Australia NREL Datawell Mooring Deployments, Coos Bay, Oregon, and Fort Bragg, California.

Instrumentation, Various Sites Responsible for the engineering design, fabrication, acquisition, integration, and implementation of commercial and prototype oceanographic instrumentation systems. Electronics design to provide reliable underwater sensor power, data acquisition and storage, and communications. Provide training, technical support, and technical documentation for custom instrumentation systems that were leased by various research groups.  Sites include: Sandia Admiralty Inlet, University of Washington, Puget Sound, Seattle, Washington Bunbury Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) Deployments, Bunbury, Western Australia OSCOPE, Ocean Station PAPA, North Pacific. PMEL, Seattle, Washington JAMSTEC, Ocean Station KEO, North Pacific. Mutsu Institute for Oceanography, Japan MEXUS, Ensenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education, Ensenada, Mexico ARPA-E Development of Small Commercially Available Wave Measuring Buoy System.

Current Meter Spatial Surveys, Various Sites Built custom ADCP vessel mounts. Developed platforms and methods for conducting full water column casts with water quality and optical instrumentation. Obtained spatially resolved cross shore, along shore, and water column profiles of current velocities and direction as well as water quality measurements in support of sediment flux and hydrodynamic modeling activities. Sites include: Toce River and Lago Maggiore, Verbania, Italy Berry’s Creek Study Area, East Rutherford, New Jersey Galveston Bay Ship Channel, Galveston, Texas Sacramento River, Redding, California Bunbury Harbor Drifter Study, Bunbury, Western Australia Mitchell Bay, Houston, Texas Newtown Creek, Long Island City, New York Selby, Vallejo, California Heckathorn, Richmond, California Yosemite Slough, San Francisco, California Willamette River, Portland, Oregon Lower Passaic River, Newark, New Jersey Kalamazoo River and Lake Allegan, Allegan, Michigan.