About the Company

Formed in 2006, the primary officers of Seahorse Coastal are Jason Fleming and Janelle Reynolds-Fleming.

Jason Fleming received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State University in 2002. For his research, he developed a new finite volume code in C++ to simulate the biological reaction and turbulent heat and mass transfer inside an anaerobic reactor. His dissertation was entitled Novel Simulation of Anaerobic Digestion Using Computational Fluid Dynamics. During the latter part of his PhD program, Jason began working with the Advanced Circulation and Storm Surge model (ADCIRC), a Continuous Galerkin finite element model for the shallow water equations. Since that time, Jason has worked on every part of the ADCIRC code as the development coordinator for ADCIRC. In addition, Jason has been the Lead Developer for the ADCIRC Surge Guidance System (ASGS, formerly known as the Lake Pontchartrain Forecast System) since the project's inception in 2006. The ASGS is a software package that uses ADCIRC and thousands of supercomputer CPUs to generate storm surge guidance in real time for approaching hurricanes. In 2009, Jason also became the inter-site liasion for the regional teams that each produce storm surge guidance for their agencies from the ASGS. His full CV is available on request.

Janelle Reynolds-Fleming, PhD is a physical/biological oceanographer, specializing in open-ended analysis of coastal physics data as well as oceanographic instrument development. She holds a BA in Mathematics from Wesleyan College, an MS in Mathematics from Texas A&M University, and a PhD in Marine Science from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. For her doctoral work as an EPA STAR Fellow at UNC-CH's Institute of Marine Sciences, she designed, deployed, and refined an autonomous estuarine hydrographic profiler that captured high frequency dynamics of the dissolved oxygen profile in a shallow, logoonal estuary with a level of detail that was unprecedented at the time. She incorporated those results into an EFDC model of the Neuse River estuary to further examine those dynamics by introducing perturbations via the model. Her work preceded a paradigm shift in the scientifically accepted explanation for the root cause of fish kills in the Neuse River Estuary. Janelle has deployed and/or analyzed data from Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs) and CTDs in North Carolina, Florida, South Africa, Japan and New Zealand using standard time series analysis as well as wavelet analysis. Furthermore, in her capacity as Outreach officer for Seahorse Coastal, Janelle was the North Carolina Regional Coordinator in 2007 and 2008 for the National Ocean Sciences Bowl, a marine science competition sponsored by the Consortium for Ocean Leadership. A full CV is available on request.