Presentations

“Gliders in the Gulf: Past, Present, and Future” Travis Miles and Barbara Kirkpatrick at the Underwater Glider User Group (UG2) workshop (May 19th) 2026)

“Expanding ocean observing systems for weather and climate: From the Northeast US to the Caribbean Sea” University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography Physical Oceanography Seminar (October 31st) 2025)

“Riders on the storm: 15 years of progress in glider hurricane sampling,” Teledyne Webb Research, Slocum Gliders User Conference (Oct 8, 2025)

“Offshore Wind and the Mid Atlantic Bight Cold Pool,” Old Dominion University Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography (CCPO) Seminar (Oct, 21, 2024)

“A Decade of Autonomous Underwater Observations of Tropical Cyclones: Co-evolution of the Ocean and Atmosphere,” KIOST JPA Meeting, Busan, Korea ( Nov 13th) 2023)

“A Decade of Autonomous Underwater Observations of Tropical Cyclones: Co-evolution of the Ocean and Atmosphere,” Tropical Cyclone and Ocean Interactions, Jeju Island, Korea ( Nov 6th) 2023)

“Autonomous underwater gliders for hurricane research and operations,” Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota FL (July 21st) 2023)

“Renewable Energy in the MACRUC region” Panelist Mid-Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utilities Commissioners, Nemacolin, PA (June 26th) 2023)

“Ocean Gliders Impacts to Forecasting Suites” The Underwater Glider User Group (UG2), quarterly meeting, webinar (February 17th) 2022)

“Hurricane forecasting and ocean robots: How new technology is changing the way we study and predict extreme storms” The Ronald E. Hatcher Science on Saturday Series, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton NJ (March 05, 2022)

“An Oceanographers Overview of Offshore Wind” Princeton Agricultural Association Princeton NJ (August 25th) 2022)

“Hurricanes and the Mid Atlantic Cold Pool: How Our Regional Ocean Can Protect Coastal Communities,” Rutgers University Marine Extension Program Seminar Series (May 24, 2021)

“Sediment Resuspension Observations from a Glider Integrated Sequoia Scientific LISST Particle Analyzer,” The Oceanography Society Webinar Series on Exploring Ocean Instrumentation (July 21st) 2021)

“Marine Technology Society Townhall on Offshore Wind” Panelist, Oceans Conference, San Diego California (September 22, 2021)

“An Oceanographers Overview of Offshore Win and the Mid-Atlantic Bight Pool” Stockton University for the New Jersey Environmental Lobby, Galloway, NJ, (October 5, 2021)

“Autonomous underwater gliders for coastal hurricane operations and long-term climate monitoring,” Coastal and Estuarine Research Foundation 2021 Biennial Conference (November 3rd) 2021)

“Empirical Corrections to Thermal Lag on Ocean Gliders”, RBR Technical Workshop, San Diego California, (February 17, 2020)

“Hurricane Gliders” The Underwater Glider User Group, UG2 Welcome Webinar, virtual, (December 9, 2020)

“Autonomous Underwater Gliders: Sensing capabilities and applications”, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -Korea Institute Ocean Science & Technology (NOAA-KIOST) Joint Program Agreement Meeting, Busan, South Korea, with Scott Glenn, (June 4-5, 2019)

“Stratified Coastal Ocean Interactions with Tropical Cyclones”, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, (April 16, 2019)

“Gliders, Observing Systems, and Numerical Modeling: Stratified Coastal Ocean Interactions with Tropical Cyclones.” World Meteorological Organization/Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (WMO/IOC) Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP) Third Pacific Islands Training Workshop on Ocean Observations and Data Applications, National Center for Ocean Standards and Meteorology, Hai Kou, China, (July 2018)

“Stratified Coastal Ocean Interactions with Tropical Cyclones: Coastal ocean circulation during Hurricane Sandy.” Fifth Capacity Building Workshop of the World Meteorological Organization/Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (WMO/IOC) Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP) for the North Pacific Ocean and Its Marginal Seas (NPOMS-5), Tianjin, China, with Scott Glenn, (June 4-7, 2017)

“Stratified coastal ocean interactions with tropical cyclones.” University of Maryland Center for Environmental Studies Horn Point Laboratory Seminar, Horn Point, Maryland, (February 2017)

“Glider applications for ocean observation networks and process-oriented numerical modeling.” Workshop on application of glider technology for sustained oceanographic observations under climate variability and climate change, Lima Peru, (2017)

“Stratified coastal ocean interactions with tropical cyclones.” Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University Physical Oceanography Seminar, Columbia University, New York, (May 2016)

“Observations of Hurricane Sandy from a Glider Mounted Current Profiler.” Fourth Capacity Building Workshop of the World Meteorological Organization/Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (WMO/IOC) Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP) for the North Pacific Ocean and Its Marginal Seas (NPOMS-4), Korea Maritime and Ocean University, Busan, South Korea, (November 2015)

“Glider Observations along the Dotson Ice Shelf.” 20th International Symposium on Polar Sciences, Korean Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea, (May 2014)

“Observations of Hurricane Sandy from a Glider Mounted Aquadopp Profiler.” Nortek Technical Symposium, San Diego, CA, (September 2013)

*Hopson, L.N., Miles, T.N., Gradone, J., Wilson, D., Looney, L.B., Glenn, S., “Autonomous Underwater Glider Observations in Category 5 Hurricane Beryl.” 105th) Annual AMS Meeting 2025, New Orleans, LA, January 2025, paper ID 453574

Steinbarger, C., Jelenak, Z., Looney, L.B., Miles, T.N., Zhang, J., “Coordinated Hurricane Observing through Collaborative Research Partnerships” AGU Fall Meeting 2024, Washington D.C., December 2024.

Miles, T.N., Hopson, L.N., Gradone, J., Wilson, D., Looney, L.B., Glenn, S., “Autonomous Underwater Glider Observations in Category 5 Hurricane Beryl.” AGU Fall Meeting 2024, Washington D.C., December 2024.

Miles, T.N., Coakley, S., Engdahl J., Rudzin J., Tsei, S, and S. Glenn. “Ocean mixing during Hurricane Ida (2021): The impact of a freshwater barrier layer” AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, 2024.

*Gradone, J., Wilson, D., Glenn, S., Miles, T.N., “Observations of Water Mass Properties in the Caribbean Through-Flow and their Implications for the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation” AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, 2024.

*Horwitz, B., Miles, T.N., “Overlap between the Mid-Atlantic Bight Cold Pool and Offshore Wind Energy Areas” AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, 2024.

*R. Cassin, Miles, T.N., Pareja-Roman, L.F., “Investigating Potential Impacts of Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations on the Mid-Atlantic Bight Cold Pool” AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, 2024. (Poster Presentation)

Miles, T.N., Coakley, S., Engdahl J., Rudzin J., Tsei, S, and S. Glenn. Ocean mixing during Hurricane Ida (2021): the impact of a freshwater barrier layer. ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, 2023. (Poster Presentation)

*Gradone, J.C., Miles, T., Glenn, S., & Wilson, D. Searching for Pathways of Cross-Equatorial Water Mass Transport in the Eastern Caribbean. ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, 2023. (Poster Presentation)

Bailey, K., Stienbarger, C., Miles, T. N., & Rudzin, J. E. (2022, December). Advances in Hurricane Intensity Forecasting and Research Through the Use of Innovative Ocean Observing Technologies I Oral. In Fall Meeting 2022. AGU.

*Gradone, J.C., Miles, T., Glenn, S., & Wilson, D. Slocum Glider ADP Based Observations of Caribbean Through-Flow and Their Implications for Global Climate. Underwater Glider User Group (UG2) Meeting. Seattle, WA. September 21, 2022.

*Horwitz, B., Miles, T.N., Munroe, D., and Kohut, J., Investigating the Overlap between the Mid-Atlantic Bight Cold Pool and Offshore Wind Lease Areas (2022, October). Marine Technology Society Oceans 2022

*Gradone, J.C., Miles, T., Glenn, S., & Wilson, D. Observing Essential Ocean Features in the Eastern Caribbean for a Safe and Predicted Ocean. ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, 2022. (Oral Presentation)

Stienbarger, C., Bailey, K., Goni, G. J., Kim, H.-S., Miles, T. N., and Rudzin, J. E., “NOAA Works Toward Improving Tropical Cyclone Intensity Forecasts Through Coordinated Ocean Observing”, vol. 2022, 2022.

*Tsei, S., Howden, S. D., Zhang, J., and Miles, T. N., “Hurricane Ida (2021): Coastal Ocean Thermal Structure and Rapid Intensification over the Louisiana Shelf Region”, vol. 2022, 2022.

Bourrin, F., Gentil, M., & Miles, T. (2022, May). Suspended Particle Characteristics from Glider Observations in a Region of Freshwater Influence. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (pp. EGU22-5170).

Le Henaff, M., Goni, G., Bringas, F., Chardon-Maldonado, P., Morell, J., Kim, H.S., Trinanes, J., Zhang, J., Glenn, S., Miles, T. and Aristizabal, M., 2021, December. Hurricane glider operations in the Caribbean region for hurricane research and forecasts. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2021, pp. OS25C-1023)

*Coakley S, Stienbarger C, Goni G, Kim HS, Le Henaff M, Lumpkin R, Miles T., Smith E, Thurston S. Integrating Ocean Observations to Improve Hurricane Intensity Forecasts. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 2021 Dec (Vol. 2021, pp. OS25C-1022).

*Wright-Fairbanks, E.K., Miles, T., Chen, B., Cai, W.-J., Saba, G. 2021. Glider-based observations reveal seasonal pH and aragonite saturation state variability in coastal U.S. Mid-Atlantic shellfishery management zones. Talk presented at the National Shellfisheries Association annual meeting (virtual due to COVID). March 2021.

*Smith, H. et al., “Robotic Ocean Gliders as Vicarious Ocean Color Calibration and Validation data for MODIS-Aqua, Suomi-NPP VIIRS, JPSS-1, and PACE.”, vol. 2020, 2020.

*Proszowski A, Miles TN, Wang RQ, Brodie JF. Assessing the Impact of Spatial Variability and Wake Effects on Power Prediction for NJ Offshore Wind Energy Area. InAGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 2020 Dec (Vol. 2020, pp. GC125-04).

Miles, T.N., Arango, H., and Wilkin, J., “A Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Modeling Framework for the Regional Ocean Modeling System,” 1st UFS Users Workshop webinar, (July 28, 2020)

Glenn, S., Miles, T.N., Seroka, G., *Watkins, C., Aristizabal, M., Wilson, D., Watlington, R., Coakley, S., Ramos-Valle, A., Lim, H.S., Xu, Y., “Rapid Co-evolution of the ocean and atmosphere in tropical cyclones and typhoons”, Global Ocean Monitoring Hurricane Steering Committee, webinar, (June 2, 2020)

Miles, T.N., Mid Atlantic Bight: Summary of 2019 Glider Operations, Hurricane Gliders Workshop, webinar (April 28, 2020)

Miles, T.N., “Planned 2020 Hurricane Glider Operations”, Hurricane Glider Workshop, webinar, (April 28, 2020)

Aristizabal, M.F., Kim, H.S., Miles, T.N., Glenn, S., Mehra, A., “Evaluation of the Ocean Initial Conditions and Evolution of the Ocean Mixed Layer Temperature on The Weather Research and Forecast Modeling System for Hurricanes/The Princeton Ocean Model for Tropical Cyclones (HWRF-POM) Forecasting Model during Hurricane Dorian”, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego California, (February 16-21 2020)

Wang, R.Q., Miles, T.N., Brodie, J.F., “Multi-scale Interaction between Wind Turbines and Coastal Processes: coupling OpenFAST with a regional coupled air-sea modeling system”, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego California, (February 16-21, 2020)

Brodie, J.F., Frei, B.P., Miles, T.N., Veron, D.E., Allen, E., “Investigating the Role of Coastal Upwelling and Synoptic Conditions in the Prediction of Wind Ramp Events”, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego California, (February 16-21, 2020)

*Murphy, S., Miles, T.N., Brodie, J.F., Crowley, M.F., Oliver, M.J., Nazarro, L.J., “Impact of Rapidly Evolving SST fields during Coastal Upwelling Events on Offshore Wind Power Production”, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego California, (February 16-21, 2020)

*Wright-Fairbanks, E., Saba, G., Chen, B. Cai, W.J., Miles, T.N., “Glider-Based Observations Reveal Seasonal pH and Aragonite Saturation State Variability in Coastal US Mid-Atlantic Shellfishery Management Zones,” American Geophysical Union (AGU) Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego California, (February 16-21, 2020)

*Wang, H., Gong, D., Yu, H.C., Zhang, Y.J., Harris, C.K., Friedrichs, M.A.M., Miles, T.N., Hudson, J., “Quantifying Shelf-Basin Exchange at Submarine Canyons in the southern Middle Atlantic Bight using data from Underwater Glider Surveys and Numerical Modeling Experiments”, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego California, (February 16-21, 2020)

Aristizabal, M.F., Miles, T.N., Glenn, S.M., Wilson, W.D., Watlington, R., “Mixed Layer Temperature Variability During the 2018 Hurricane Season in the Caribbean Ocean”, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego California, (February 16-21, 2020)

Glenn, S.M., Miles, T.N., Aristizabal, M.F., Watkins, C. Him, H.S., “Scientific Results from the 2018 & 2019 North Atlantic Hurricane Glider Picket Lines”, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego California, (February 16-21, 2020)

Miles, T.N., Valle, A.R., Brodie, J.F., Seroka, G.N., Coakley, S., “Sensitivity of storm surge to stratified coastal ocean cooling in Hurricane Irene”, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego California, (February 16-21, 2020)

*Wright-Fairbanks, E. Saba, G.K., Chen, B., Cai, W.-J., Wang, K., Bernard, A.H., Branham, C.W., Jones, C.P., and Miles, T.N. Glider-based observations reveal seasonal pH and aragonite saturation state variability in coastal U.S. Mid-Atlantic shellfishery zones. Poster presented at the Ocean Acidification Community Meeting, Miami, FL., January 2020.

Miles, T.N., and Brodie, J.F, “New Jersey Offshore Wind Resource Modeling: The Power of Partnerships”, Offshore Wind International Partnering Forum, New York, New York, (2019)

Miles, T.N., Arango, H., and Wilkin, J.,” Air-sea coupling with the Earth System Modeling Framework/The National Unified Operational Prediction Capability (ESMF/NUOPC) layer”, Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) and Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS), U.S.(Integrated Ocean Observing System)” IOOS 2019 Coastal and Ocean Modeling Testbed (COMT) Annual Meeting, Silver Spring, MD, (2019)

Miles, T.N., Slade, W., Kohut, J., and Gong, D., “Suspended particle characteristics from a glider integrated LISST sensor”, Underwater Gliders User Group/ Everyone’s Gliding Observatories (EGO) Meeting, Rutgers University, (2019)

Gouldman, C., Miles, T.N., Edwards, C., “Under Florence’s Wake: Gliders, Hurricanes, and Ocean Observing”, Oceans 2018 Marine Technology Society, Charleston, SC, (2018)

Miles, T.N., Glenn, S., Seroka, G., “Coastal Ocean Circulation During Hurricane Sandy”, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR, (2018)

Miles, T.N., Slade, W., Kohut, J., and Gong, D., “Suspended particle characteristics from a glider integrated LISST sensor”, Oceans 2018 Marine Technology Society (MTS), Charleston, SC, (2018)

Miles, T.N. et al., “Initial impacts of the Hurricane Sentinel glider fleet deployed during the 2018 hurricane season”, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, Washington, DC, (2018)

Miles, T.N., “Stratified coastal ocean interactions with tropical cyclones”, Mid Atlantic Bight Physical Oceanography Meeting (MABPOM), (2016)

Miles, T.N., Glenn, S., Schofield, O., Kohut, J., Seroka, G., “Sediment transport in Hurricane Sandy,” Glider Observations and Regional Ocean Modeling. 7 th Everyone’s Gliding Observatories (EGO) Conference (2016)

Miles, T.N., Arnone, B., Howden, S., Jones, C., Martin, K., Vandermeulen, R., Decollibus, C., Schofield, O., “Enabling Slocum Glider Flight on a River-Dominated Continental Shelf”, Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Oil Spill Conference (2016)

Miles T.N., Glenn, S., Schofield, O., Kohut, J., Seroka, G., “Sediment transport in Hurricane Sandy”, Glider Observations and Regional Ocean Modeling. 7th Everyone’s Gliding Observatories (EGO) Conference (2016)

Miles, T.N., Glenn, S., Kohut, J., Schofield, O., Seroka, G., “Sediment resuspension and transport in Hurricane Sandy: Comparisons of glider observations with model results”, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI, (2014)

Miles, T.N., Glenn, S., Schofield, O., Kohut, J., Seroka, G., “Sediment transport in Hurricane Sandy”, Oceans 2014 Marine Technology Society, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada, (2014)

Miles, T.N., Schofield, O., Martinson D., “Coastal ocean mixing near Palmer Station Antarctica: Observations from a glider mounted Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP)”, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, LA, (2013)

Miles, T.N., Glenn, S., Schofield, O., Kohut, J., Seroka, G., Xu, Y., “Observations of Hurricane Sandy from a Glider Mounted Aquadopp Profiler”, Nortek Technical Symposium, San Diego, CA, 2013 (Invited) and Oceans 2013 Marine Technology Society, San Diego, CA, (2013)

Glenn, S., Schofield, O., Kohut, J., Bowers, L., Crowley, M., Dunk, R., Kerfoot, J., Miles, T.N., Palamara, L., Roarty, H., Seroka, G., Yi X., Titlow, J., Brown, W., Boicourt, W., Atkinson, L., Seim, H., “(2012) Impact of ocean observations on hurricane forecasts in the Mid-Atlantic: Forecasting lessons learned from Hurricane Irene”, Marine Technology Society Oceans, (2012)

Miles, T.N., Schofield, O., Martinson, D., “Physical forcing of a Western Antarctic Peninsula ecosystem: observations from a coastal ocean observing network at Palmer Station. Long Term Ecological Research (LTER)”, All Sciences Meeting, Estes Park, Colorado, (2012)

Glenn, S., Roarty, H., Kohut, J., Miles, T.N., Kerfoot, J., Schofield, O., Brown, W., Atkinson, L., Boicourt, B., “Observations of Storm Response and Sediment Transport on the Middle Atlantic Bight Continental Shelf,” American Geophysical Union (AGU) Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR, (2010)

Miles, T.N., and He, R., “Surface Ocean Temporal and Spatial Variability of the South Atlantic Bight: Revisiting with Cloud-free Reconstructions of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Concurrent Self-System Therapy (SST) and Chl-a Imagery”, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR, (2010)

Miles, T.N., and He, R., “Covariations of satellite sea surface temperature and ocean color in the South Atlantic Bight”, Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL, (2008)

Miles, T.N., Goni, G., and Glenn, S., “Hurricane Gliders: New Observing Technologies and Concept of Operations document (CONOPS)”, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), webinar, (Sept 3, 2020)

Edwards, C. and Miles T.N., Hurricane Gliders: Improving Tropical Storm Intensity Forecasts with Real Time Data edited, The Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (SECOORA), webinar, (May 5, 2020)

Miles, T.N., “Hurricanes and Robots: How new technology is changing the way we predict and study extreme storms,” National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Planet Stewards, (May 2019)

Glenn, S., Seroka, G., Miles, T.N., (presenter), Xu, Y., Roarty H., Kohut J., Schofield, O., “U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Responds to Hurricanes Irene and Sandy”, Teledyne-Webb Research, Falmouth, MA, (2013)

Miles, T.N., and Schofield, O., “20 Years of Oceanographic and Atmospheric Data at Palmer Station Antarctica, Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Site Review”, Palmer Station, Antarctica, (2011)

TC-Ocean interactions: From observations to models, AGU 2024 Ocean Sciences Meeting (February 18th), 2024)

Pairing autonomous monitoring with modeling to expand capacity and develop new understanding of coastal ocean systems, ASLO 2022 Ocean Sciences Meeting (February 24th) 2022)

Advances in Hurricane Intensity Forecasting and Research Through the Use of Innovative Ocean Observing Technologies, AGU 2022 Fall Meeting (December 13, 2022)