Daniela Di Iorio Daniela Di Iorio has worked in the field of physical oceanography for over 24 years. She has been faculty at University of Georgia (UGA) for 22 years arriving in 1999. During her time as faculty she has mentored, or supported, ~32 undergraduates, master students, teacher participation, and staff. Her research focus as an oceanographer is incredibly diverse, she has been, or is currently involved in research in these areas: modeling, estuarine, coastal and shelf circulation processes, deep see circulations, hydrothermal vent and natural methane and oil seep flows and thier turbulent properties. She specializes in acoustic instrumentation in both coastal and deep sea settings. Daniela is unique among oceanographers in that she owns (acquired upon graduating with her Ph.D) a specially designed acoustic instrument that uses forward scatter principles to measure turbulence in the water column, this data can be used to acquire information of the water properties in the ocean. Daniela is dedicated to quality science and has led a successful and productive team of staff and students. She is a relentless editor according to her students and she is a trained classical violinist and is an avid cyclist. See: http://www.marsci.uga.edu/directory/daniela-di-iorio Current Staff members: Grace Waters joined the lab in Oct 2023 and supports all the field going efforts Past Staff members: Mahdi Razaz joined the Di Iorio group in September 2016 as Postdoctoral Researcher and is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi (mahdi.razaz@usm.edu) James Kelly joined the Di Iorio group in May 2016 as a Research Technician and is currently living in Huntsville AL. He continues to provide support when needed (jbkelly@uga.edu) Trent Moore (SkIO) dives to the seafloor in the DSV Alvin to make measurements of hydrothermal plumes. Trent is a very experienced oceanographic techichian, he has been a big help to the Di Iorio Group over many years.
