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JULES S. JAFFE
Research Oceanographer
Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
La Jolla, CA 92093-0238

EDUCATION
B.A. Cum Laude, SUNY at Buffalo (Physics) 1973
M.S. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (Biomedical Information Science) 1974
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (Biophysics) 1982

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1973- Summer Research Fellow, SUNY at Buffalo.
1974 -1982 Graduate Student, Biophysics Department, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley
1974 -1977 National Institute of Health Trainee
1978 Teaching Associate, Biophysics, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley.
1981-1982 Senior Software Engineer, Diasonics,Inc.
1982 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
1983 Independent Consultant, KLA Instruments
1984 -1988 Assistant Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
2/88 - 9/88 Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
10/88 - 6/94 Assistant Research Oceanographer, Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
7/94 - 6/99 Associate Research Oceanographer, Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
7/99 - present Research Oceanographer, Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
6/2002 -12/2002 Visiting Scientist, Institut Ciencias Del Mar, Barcelona,Spain

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Member, Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers
Member, American Geophysical Union
Member, Acoustical Society of America

AWARDS & HONORS
Pew Memorial Fellow, WHOI, 1984-5
NSF Creativity Award 1992
Fellow; Acoustical Society of America 2002
Visiting Scholar; WHOI Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering Summer 2003

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Image and signal processing science, development of 3-dimensional in-situ sensors for oceanography (optical and sonar). Underwater optical and sonar imaging. Biomedical imaging. Autonomous vehicle development.

GRADUATE STUDENTS
Duncan McGehee (Ph.D., 1995), Andy Palowitch (Ph.D.,1995), Girish Chandran (Ph.D., 1996), Keihan Raafi (Ph.D., 1997), David Zwawada (Ph. D. 2002), Chad Schell (2003), Paul Roberts (present), Jennie Cochran (present), Ben Maurer (present).

SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATORS
Mark Ohman (SIO), Peter Franks (SIO), Amatzia Genin (Hebrew University),
Meir Feder (Tel Aviv University).

GRADUATE ADVISOR
Dr. Robert Glaeser (U.C. Berkeley)

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