Richard (Rip) Hale

Associate Professor

Graduate Program Director

Department of Ocean and Earth Sciences

Old Dominion University

rphale@odu.edu

(757) 683-3959

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

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Current Graduate Students:

Ollie Gilchrest, mgilc006@odu.edu

Dissertation Research: Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport in the tidal James River, VA

Summer Collier, scoll023@odu.edu

MS Project: Carbon sequestration in SAV meadows of the Chesapeake Bay

Graduate Student Alumni:

Adriana Amrhein, MS 2026

MS Thesis title: Quantifying Nutrient Fluxes Across the Sediment-Water Interface in the Lafayette River Estuary

Jim Metz, MS (2025)

Alex Garnand, MS (2021)

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

Undergraduate students

2025-2026: Elizjah Eddy

2024-2025: Luke Clements, Emma Friedauer

2023-2024: Katie Gross

2022-2023: Charme Kent

2021-2023: Amber Tymul

Summer 2018: Ana Grace Alvarado (College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University) and Jonathan Lucio (University of Texas, Rio Grande)

Summer 2017: Hannah Weaver (Wittenberg University) presenting her REU research at the 2018 SE GSA meeting.