Jules S. Jaffe

Jules S. Jaffe received the B.A. degree in physics from the State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA, in 1973, the M.S. degree in biomedical information science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 1974, and the Ph.D. degree in biophysics from the University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, in 1982. He subsequently spent several years in Silicon Valley as an Image-Processing Consultant. In 1984, he joined the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA, where he was an Assistant and Associate Scientist. In 1988, he joined the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, as an Assistant Research Oceanographer, where he was subsequently promoted to Associate Oceanographer, and he is currently a Full Oceanographer. His lab specializes in the development of a variety of underwater technology that ranges from miniature vehicles to underwater optical and acoustical instruments. In 2003, he was a H. Burr Steinbuck Visiting Scholar with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In 2006, he was a Visiting Miller Professor with the University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society and a past recipient of the National Science Foundation Creativity Award. In 2012, he received the Best Paper Award at the International Ocean Optics Meeting. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, and a past Editor-in-Chief of the Methods in Oceanography (Elsevier).