{"id":315,"date":"2025-05-29T13:43:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T13:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c-charm.org\/?page_id=315"},"modified":"2025-06-12T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T15:33:08","slug":"ara-hakim","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/c-charm.org\/index.php\/student-researchers\/ara-hakim\/","title":{"rendered":"Ara Hakim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/c-charm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Social-Media-Profile-Picture-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"C-CHARM logo to stand in for photo of person in the profile.\" class=\"wp-image-8\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c-charm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Social-Media-Profile-Picture-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/c-charm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Social-Media-Profile-Picture-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/c-charm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Social-Media-Profile-Picture-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/c-charm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Social-Media-Profile-Picture-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/c-charm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Social-Media-Profile-Picture-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/c-charm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Social-Media-Profile-Picture.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background:&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ara studied oceanography for his undergrad in Indonesia. Then he got his master\u2019s degree in Coastal Geoscience from the University of Kiel in Germany, before finishing another master\u2019s degree in marine science from UMass Dartmouth in 2015. He worked for consulting companies for about 6 years before returning to school in 2021 at Michigan Tech to pursue his PhD. His research experience covers the implementation of numerical models for hydrodynamics and sediment transport, and also tidal energy resource and impact evaluation in Massachusetts waters. He is currently working on water resources management problems in the Great Lakes under the supervision of Dr. Dave Watkins.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current Projects:&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ara is currently investigating the changing hydrology in the Great Lakes basin and how it affects potential risk and hazard within the region. This will also serve as the basis of his work on formulating a novel predictor for improving net basin supply forecast of Lake Superior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Future Goals:&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ara aspires to be a teaching professor after he graduates, specializing in water resources and hydroinformatics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background:&nbsp; Ara studied oceanography for his undergrad in Indonesia. Then he got his master\u2019s degree in Coastal Geoscience from the University of Kiel in Germany, before finishing another master\u2019s degree in marine science from UMass Dartmouth in 2015. He worked for consulting companies for about 6 years before returning to school in 2021 at Michigan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":227,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-315","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-charm.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-charm.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-charm.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c-charm.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c-charm.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/c-charm.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/c-charm.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/315\/revisions\/317"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c-charm.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-charm.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}