Prof. Joellen Russell is an oceanographer, a Distinguished Professor, and the Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Chair of Integrative Science in the Department of Geosciences at UA.Her research uses robot floats, supercomputers and satellites to observe and predict the ocean’s role in climate and the carbon cycle.
Dr. Russell is the modeling lead for the Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling project (SOCCOM), the current US Representative to the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO), and one of the founding members of Science Moms (sciencemoms.com), a “group of nonpartisan climate scientists and mothers, working to give our children the planet they deserve.”
Joellen received her PhD in Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, her A.B. in Environmental Geoscience from Harvard, and has been here at UA in Tucson for 20 years.
Blurb for “Climate and the Deep Blue Sea: Improving Predictions”:
If you appreciate your weather forecasts, you should thank an oceanographer because the US National Weather Service has been using an ocean and atmosphere-based climate model to make more accurate forecasts of tomorrow’s weather for over 5 years. Here at UA, we measure the heat and carbon in the ocean directly, in near real time, with a global array of floating robots, improving prediction of our weather, climate and earth system.
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