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TEACHING ASSISTANTS
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INSTRUCTORS
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Sophia Merrifield
Dr. Merrifield is a physical oceanographer in the Marine Physical Laboratory at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She obtained a B.S. in Physics and Mechanical Engineering at Yale University and received her doctorate in Physical Oceanography from the MIT/WHOI Joint Program. Her research focuses on the use of unmanned systems to characterize the physical environment with an emphasis on measurements in the upper ocean and at the air-sea interface. She has led a number of field expeditions coordinating data collection between unmanned surface and underwater vehicles, marine radar, and wave-sensing technologies. Her current projects include extreme sea state characterization, island wake variability, and adaptive path-planning for unmanned surface vehicles. |
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Eric Terrill
Dr. Terrill is an oceanographer with 25 years of experience leading basic and applied research programs around the globe. In 2003, he established a R&D Center within the Marine Physical Laboratory at Scripps to rapidly field new technologies and conduct exploratory and expeditionary research. In addition, Dr. Terrill has extensive experience working with industry to develop, improve, and evaluate new ocean technologies and unmanned platforms. Dr. Terrill has a B.S. (Magna Cum Laude) degree in Applied Mechanics and Engineering sciences from the University of California, San Diego and a Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography-Applied Ocean Sciences from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography that was supported by DOD fellowships. In addition, Dr. Terrill has served on transition and government review teams for the Navy, Federal Advisory committees for NOAA; and, has twice provided congressional testimony on matters associated with emerging ocean technologies for maritime domain awareness. He is co-founder of Project Recover, a private-public collaborative which conducts global searches using unmanned underwater vehicles and pre-mission historical analysis to locate WWII-era aircraft crash sites for reporting to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. |
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Steve Weinstein
Steve is currently teaching entrepreneurship at Stanford and U.C. Berkeley. With a background that spans technology, product development, and entertainment, Steve Weinstein has been focused on where media meets technology. Currently Steve is the founder and CEO of MovieLabs. Steve is also the co-founder of KineTrope, a design shop for small consumer and professional electronics. Previously, Steve served as CTO of Deluxe Entertainment, a 6,000 person post production house. He has also taught the Hacking 4 Defense, Hacking 4 Impact, Hacking 4 Diplomacy, and Hacking 4 Local courses which apply Lean Startup principles to critical problems facing government bodies. |
PROGRAM SUPPORT
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Gwen Nero
Gwen is Director of Corporate Affiliates, Business Development, Industry Outreach, and Innovation at UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography. At Scripps, Gwen created and directs the Scripps Corporate Alliance, a program that facilitates collaboration between Scripps and corporate members launched in 2017. She works closely with the UC San Diego Office of Innovation and Commercialization and innovation programs across the UC San Diego campus and the San Diego Region to support Scripps research commercialization, collaborations with industry, and talent recruitment of students and postdoctoral fellows to industry careers. Gwen represents Scripps on the boards of The Maritime Alliance and Cleantech San Diego. Gwen completed a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Columbia University, taught for the NSF I-Corps program, led programs for life science innovation fund NYC TechConnect and incubator Harlem Biospace in New York City, and worked at Columbia Technology Ventures before joining UC San Diego and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. |
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Megan Hepner-Medina
Megan is the Program Coordinator for the Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCCOOS). She obtained a M.S. in Marine Science and Marine Resource Mangement at the University of South Florida, College of Marine Science and B.S. in Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Maryland, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Megan has communicated complex science and policy concepts to a diverse audience, including the public, stakeholders, and partners while working with NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and for three years with the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network. She has since applied her knowledge of marine resource management and coding expertise to help design dashboards that indicate the status and trends of biodiversity and environmental variables to improve our capacity for science-based decision-making. |
COURSE ADVISORS
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Steve Blank
Steve Blank is a retired, 8-time serial entrepreneur widely recognized as a thought leader on startups and innovation. He has been named on the Thinkers50 list of top management thinkers and recognized by the Harvard Business Review as one of 12 Masters of Innovation. He is the author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany, credited with launching the Lean Startup movement, and the bestselling Startup Owner's Manual. He is co-creator of the Hacking for Defense class taught at Stanford, which is revolutionizing how the U.S. defense and intelligence community can deploy innovation with speed. Steve also served as Commissioner of the California Coastal Commission, the public body which regulates land use and public access on the California Coast. |
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Pete Newell
Pete Newell is the Managing Partner and co-founder of BMNT, a company delivering data-driven, evidence-based, disciplined innovation which yields solutions at speed. Before BMNT, Colonel Newell led as Director of US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF) the investment of over $1.4B focusing on the problems of counter insurgent tactics including improvised explosive devices, suicide bombers, rocket attacks and more. Col. Newell pioneered the Army’s deployment of smart phones, frontline 3D manufacturing and numerous other cutting edge technologies. In doing so, he created deep networks in the Silicon Valley and the greater technology community. He is also co-creator and co-author of H4X and Hacking for Defense, the groundbreaking innovation methods practiced in over 60 agencies as well as taught at Stanford, Georgetown, Columbia and a growing list of leading universities. |