Alessandro Bocconcelli, Oceanographer emeritus

Mr. Bocconcelli has been at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) since 1985, beginning as a summer student and then joining the Ocean Structures and Moorings laboratory as an engineer. Subsequently, he worked at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington as Director of Operations for the Center for Marine Science Research for seven years. Upon returning to WHOI, he has been working as a Research Specialist for the DTAG laboratory. His experience with tagging marine mammals includes working with the Watkins/Tyack laboratory and with Mark Johnson and Michael Moore at WHOI. He currently manages several projects using Dtags, passive acoustics monitors, acoustic moorings and towed arrays.

Mr. Bocconcelli has authored and co-authored more than 50 technical papers and presented them worldwide. He is a member of the Marine Technology Society, the Society for Marine Mammalogy, and the European Cetacean Society. He has served on the board of trustees for the Masonboro Island Society and the Friends School of Wilmington, NC.

Mr. Bocconcelli is a graduate of the Merchant Marine Technical Institute in Camogli, Italy, and has undergraduate and graduate degrees in Ocean Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has sailed in the Merchant Marine as deck officer and Captain and participated in more than 100 research cruises as Project Engineer, Chief Scientist, or Captain of the research vessel. He is also a guest investigator at the CIMA Research Center in Italy and at the Stazione Biologica Anton Dhorn in Naples, Italy.