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Investigating the effect of oil spills
on the environment and public health.

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Dave Morra

Johns Hopkins University

Department of Mechanical Engineering

223 Latrobe Hall
3400 North Charles St.
Baltimore , MD 21218

dmorra1@johnshopkins.edu

Project List:

Dispersion Research on Oil: Physics and Plankton Studies II (DROPPS II)

Year 5-7 Consortia Grants (RFP-IV)Role: Undergraduate Student

Dispersion Research on Oil: Physics and Plankton Studies (DROPPS)

Year 2-4 Consortia Grants (RFP-I)Role: Undergraduate Student

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Article - 1
2015
Murphy, D. W., Li, C., dAlbignac, V., Morra, D., & Katz, J. (2015). Splash behaviour and oily marine aerosol production by raindrops impacting oil slicks. J. Fluid Mech., 780, 536–577.
Conference Presentations - 6
2016
Murphy, D. W., Li, C., d'Albignac, V., Morra, D., & Katz, J. (2016). Production of Oily Marine Aerosol by Raindrop Splashing. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2016. Tampa, FL : 02/01/16-02/04/16: poster.
2015
Murphy, D. W., Li, C., d'Albignac, V., Morra, D., & Katz, J. (2015). High Weber Number Impacts onto Immiscible Oil Layers: Splash Behavior and Droplet Sizes. In Droplets 2015. Enschede, Netherlands : 10/06/15-10/08/15.
Murphy, D. W., Li, C., d'Albignac, V., Morra, D., & Katz, J. (2015). Turbulent crude oil jets in crossflow: holographic measurements of droplet size distributions. In 68th Annual Meeting of the APS Divison of Fluid Dynamics. Boston, MA : 11/22/15-11/24/15.
2014
Morra, D., Almashaan, N., Murphy, D., & Katz, J. (2014). Impact of small raindrops on crude oil slicks. In 67th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics. San Francisco, CA : 11/23/2014-11/25/2014.
2013
Katz, J., Murphy, D. W., & Morra, D. (2013). Large scale behavior and droplet size distributions in crude oil jets and plumes. In American Physical Society 66th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics. Pittsburg, PA , 11/24/2013-11/26/2013.
Murphy, D. W., Morra, D., & Katz, J. (2013). Rain drops and oil slicks: impact of water droplets on a surface oil layer. In American Physical Society 66th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics. Pittsburg, PA , 11/24/2013-11/26/2013.