Hans Graber

Dr. Graber is chairman and professor in Rosenstiel School’s Division of Applied Marine Physics. He is also founder and co-director of the Center for Southeaster Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing (CSTARS), facility that provides satellite imagery and communications for scientific purposes.

Dr. Graber’s research focuses on experimental, theoretical and numerical studies of ocean surface wave dynamics, radar remote sensing, homeland security issues, maritime domain awareness, satellite-based disease monitoring, air-sea fluxes including boundary-layer dynamics and hurricane and storm surge predictions.

For many years he led the high frequency radar technology effort at the University of Miami, which included numerous Office of Naval Research-funded experiments. He led the development of the Air-Sea Interaction Spar (ASIS) buoy and participated in numerous sea-going air-sea interaction experiments. Dr. Graber is the lead PI of a multi-partnership National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) team on Real Time Forecasting of Winds, Waves and Surge in Tropical Cyclones. Dr. Graber served as editor for the Oceanic Section of the AMS Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanographic Technology from 1999 to 2004. 

Dr. Graber received his B.E. in Civil Engineering (magna cum laude) with a minor in Mathematics from the City College of New York (CCNY) in 1977 and his M.S. and Sc.D degrees in Coastal Engineering/Hydrodynamics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1979 and 1984, respectively.