Sara Haines

Department of Marine Sciences
3202 Venable Hall, CB# 3300
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3300

Technical and Research Interests

• Manage data for near real time environmental monitoring sensors and systems.
• Development of data acquisition methods and systems.
• Parsing techniques and display of observed data from different sensors and platforms.
• Engineer automated software to process, quality control, and publish real-time observations from meteorological buoys, wave and current meters, and surface current radar.

Projects

• NCCOOS, SECOORA -- ongoing
  
• NC Wind Energy, Long Bay Wintertime Blooms -- current
• COAST, SEACOOS, Q2O (QARTOD2OGC) -- recent
• SABSOON, MBL, El Nino, SYNOP -- past

Experience

• Research Associate, Department of Marine Sciences, UNC-CH (1997-present)
• Research Assistant, Department of Marine Sciences, UNC-CH (1989-1991, 1992-1997)
• Student Research Assistant, Department of Geology, UNC-CH (1987-1989)

Education

• M.S. in geology. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989.
• B.S. in geology, University of Oregon, 1985.