Richard (Rip) Hale

Assistant Professor

Department of Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences

Old Dominion University

rphale@odu.edu

(757)683-3959

@_panta_rhei_

Expertise: Marine geology, coastal sediment transport, continental shelf dynamics, tidal delta processes

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Current Graduate Students:

Adriana Amrhein, aamrh001@odu.edu

MS Project: A nitrogen budget for the Lafayette River

Ollie Gilchrest, mgilc006@odu.edu

MS Project: Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport in the tidal James River, VA

Jim Metz, jmetz002@odu.edu

PhD Project: Holocene Evolution of the Blackwater River Basin

Graduate Student Alumni:

Alex Garnand, agarn010@odu.edu 

Kallie Brown, MS (2019)

MS Thesis title: Persistence of depositional features in a strongly seasonal, tide-dominated delta

Samantha McGill, MS (2019)

MS Thesis title: Sediment resuspension in a micro tidal estuary: causative forces and links with algal blooms

2018 REU Students

Ana Grace Alvarado (College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University) and Jonathan Lucio (University of Texas, Rio Grande)

2017 REU Students

Hannah Weaver (Wittenberg University) presenting her REU research at the 2018 SE GSA meeting.