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EXPERIENCE

Jardon & Howard Technologies, Incorporated
(NOAA Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research 843.762.8511)

• Establish a GOES satellite data relay communications link between the CCEHBR lab in Charleston, SC and a remote, multi-instrument oceanographic sampling platform moored on the Lower St. Johns River (LSJR), Florida for near real-time data acquisition.
• Develop a database to house LSJR data from remote platform and seven sampling sites.
• Build a Web site for the Monitoring and Event Response for Harmful Algal Blooms (MERHAB) Florida project (www.merhabflorida.org) to house a science overview of the project, a NRT data console and platform description, database archive access, project information and references, photographic library, etc.
• Develop automated processes to download, process and create presentation plots of NRT oceanographic and atmospheric data for Web publication.
• Develop a Web interface to the LSJR database for easy, interactive archive data retrieval.

Technology Planning & Management Corporation
(NOAA Coastal Services Center 843.740.1259)

• Project administration, coordination, and presentation.
• Process, analyze and manipulate coastal remote sensing data for presentation and integration into environmental products for resource managers.
• Develop programming scripts for data processing and reformatting.
• Data analysis for new instrument calibration.
• Spatial data analysis utilizing GIS.
• Write technical reports and scientific papers.
• Web page and CD-ROM development.
• Editing of technical and scientific papers for publication.
• Write metadata in support of research data sets.

Example Projects for TPMC

Recipient of the TPMC President's Award, November 1999.

Research, Engineering & Management Support
(NOAA Coastal Services Center 843.740.1200. REMSA offices: Newport News, VA 757.833.7160)

Working at the NOAA Coastal Services Center with duties very similar to those described above, but with less emphasis on planning and administration.

EDUCATION

College of Charleston
Bachelor of Science in Physics, Magna Cum Laude
Concentration in Astronomy

• "The Charleston Harbor Project" - Construct and gather data from weather stations around the Lowcountry of South Carolina in order to help correlate regional meteorological and local watershed data (see publications).

University of the Virgin Islands
Bilateral Exchange, NASA Space Grant Award

• "The Etelman Project" - A one year photometric survey of selected Rs Cvn-type variable stars and the revitalization of the Etelman Observatory, St. Thomas, USVI funded by the NASA Space Grant (see publications).

• Computer programming skills in Unix and Unix shell, C, SQL, Perl, Fortran, IDL, PV-Wave, GMT, HTML, JavaScript, etc.
• Certified training in C, ERDAS Imagine, Internet Technologies (IT) Security Awarenesss, Workplace Diversity.
• Certified Geographic Information Systems (GIS) ArcView, ArcInfo, and Avenue.
• 28 years sailing experience including many extended off-shore passages as captain. Extensive blue-water sailing between 10N and 50N latitude (between Trinidad and Nova Scotia, and between Bermuda (64W) and Lake Michigan (88W)). 8+ year live-aboard.
• Fluent in German and working knowledge of French.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Primary authorship:

D. Aurin, L. Balthis, C. Cooksey, Monitoring and Event Response For Harmful Algal Blooms (MERHAB) Florida Project's Automated Web Display of Near Real-Time Data and Database Access (Abstract), American Society of Limnology and Oceanography 2002 Summer Meeting, 2002, Vicoria, B.C., Canada.

D. Aurin, D.L. Eslinger, S.J. Katzberg, K.J.Waters, Remote, Estuarine Salinity Sensing Utilizing GPS Signal Reflection, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference: Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments, p. 303-308, 2000.

D. Aurin, J.E. Neff, D.M. Drost, Photometric Characteristics of the Etelman Observatory in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, Precision Optical Photometry, ed. E. Craine, (ASP Conf. Series 189), p. 257, 1999.

D. Aurin, B.L. Lindner, Charleston Weather Project 1995 (abstract), Bulletin of the South Carolina Academy of Science, 58, p. 74, 1996.

Conference plenary sessions:

D. Aurin, L. Balthis, C. Cooksey, Monitoring and Event Response For Harmful Algal Blooms (MERHAB) Florida Project's Automated Web Display of Near Real-Time Data and Database Access, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography 2002 Summer Meeting, 2002, Vicoria, B.C., Canada.

D. Aurin, D.L. Eslinger, S.J. Katzberg, K.J.Waters, Remote, Estuarine Salinity Sensing Utilizing GPS Signal Reflection, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference: Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments, p. 303-308, 2000.

D. Aurin, J.E. Neff, D.M. Drost, The Etelman Project, South Carolina Academy of Science, 1998, Clemson University.

D. Aurin, B.L. Lindner, Charleston Weather Project , South Carolina Academy of Science, 1996, College of Charleston.

Co-authorship:

Lindner, B. L., C. Duchon and D. Aurin, Correlations between cloud structure and cloud amount (abstract), Annales Geophysicae, 14 (Supplement 2), C568, 1996b.

Lindner, B. L., M. Smoak, D. Aurin, D. Drost, L. Mills, D. Pelkey, J. Mirecki, P. Bertsch and K. Pickler, Nutrients and pollutants in Charleston rain (abstract), Bulletin of the South Carolina Academy of Science, 58, p. 117, 1996d.

Lindner, B. L., M. Smoak, D. Aurin, D. Drost, L. Mills, D. Pelkey, J. Mirecki, P. Bertsch and K. Pickler, Wet deposition into Charleston Harbor (abstract), Annales Geophysicae, 14 (Supplement 2), C593, 1996a.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, An Evaluation of Hurricane-Induced Erosion Along the North Carolina Coast Using Airborne LIDAR Surveys, CSC Technical Report NOAA/CSC/99031-PUB, July 1999.