{"id":34,"date":"2017-01-19T10:52:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T15:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/rphale\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:00:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:00:49","slug":"team-members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/rphale\/team-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Richard (Rip) Hale<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associate Professor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduate Program Director<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Department of Ocean and Earth Sciences<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Old Dominion University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

rphale@odu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(757) 683-3959<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expertise: Marine geology, coastal sediment transport, continental shelf dynamics, tidal delta processes, marsh restoration <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google Scholar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Graduate Students:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ollie Gilchrest, mgilc006@odu.edu<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dissertation Research: Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport in the tidal James River, VA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer Collier, scoll023@odu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MS Project: Carbon sequestration in SAV meadows of the Chesapeake Bay<\/p>\n\n\n

Graduate Student Alumni:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n\n

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Adriana Amrhein, MS 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MS Thesis title: Quantifying Nutrient Fluxes Across the Sediment-Water Interface in the Lafayette River Estuary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jim Metz, MS (2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alex Garnand, MS (2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kallie Brown, MS (2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MS Thesis title: Persistence of depositional features in a strongly seasonal, tide-dominated delta<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Samantha McGill, MS (2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MS Thesis title: Sediment resuspension in a micro tidal estuary: causative forces and links with algal blooms<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Undergraduate students<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025-2026: Elizjah Eddy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024-2025: Luke Clements, Emma Friedauer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023-2024: Katie Gross<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022-2023: Charme Kent<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021-2023: Amber Tymul<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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Summer 2017: Hannah Weaver (Wittenberg University) presenting her REU research at the 2018 SE GSA meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 Google Scholar Current Graduate Students: Ollie Gilchrest, mgilc006@odu.edu… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5377,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/rphale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/rphale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/rphale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/rphale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/rphale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/rphale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/rphale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/rphale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}