AOS & CICS Newsletter
Spring/Summer 2015 Volume 9, Number 2 building an impressive rank of faculty and in strengthening communication and the Sarmiento Steps academic ties between AOS faculty, graduate students, and postdocs. Program in Atmospheric and Down, Fueglistaler Oceanic Sciences (AOS) & The “Jorge has played a vital role in Cooperative Institute for Steps in as AOS maintaining the stability of the AOS Program during his long tenure as Director, Climate Science (CICS) Director while working to broaden the Program, making it more exciting for students with a Inside this issue: After 19 years at the helm of the variety of interests in ocean, atmosphere, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and climate science,” said Isaac Held, an Sarmiento Steps Down, Fueglistaler Program, Jorge Sarmiento, the George J. AOS faculty member. “His guiding hand Steps in as AOS Director……………. 1 Magee Professor of Geoscience and at the helm will be missed.” Geological Engineering, has decided to Griffies Appointed Lecturer…..….….2 step down as Director. Having served as “As AOS Director, I have been able to director from 1980-1990 and from 2006 - forge close ties with an exceptional group Symposium Honors Manabe……..….2 2015, Sarmiento will pass the directorship of incredibly talented folks and, in turn, a th down to the capable hands of Stephan path for the Program,” Sarmiento said. “I GFDL Marks 60 Anniversary……….3 Fueglistaler, an associate professor of am pleased to pass the torch to Stephan; I Geosciences. leave the Program in good hands.” SOCCOM Annual Meeting Held…..…3
Baldwin Awarded Fellowship……….4
Three Accept Offers of Admission..4
AOS Workshop Announced…….…….5
Fisheries & Climate Scientists Converge on Main Campus…………..5
2015 Ocean Fun Days……….…….…..6 George J. Magee Professor of Geoscience and Geological Engineering Jorge SAS Workshop 2015………………..…..6 Sarmiento CICS & AOS Scientists Reach out With this decision, effective July 1, 2015, Dusenbury University Preceptor of to Young Women at Conference……7 Sarmiento hopes to have more time to Geological and Geophysical Sciences focus on his dual roles as Director of the Stephan Fueglistaler Kapnick Receives AGU Award...... 8 Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling program Fueglistaler joined the AOS Program in Research in Action…………………..…8 (SOCCOM) and Director of the March of 2010 as an assistant professor of Cooperative Institute for Climate Science Geosciences. Prior to arriving at Princeton, AOS & CICS News ……………….…….8 (CICS). he served as a NERC Advanced Fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics An expert in ocean biogeochemistry, and Theoretical Physics at the University TigerTransit/Shuttle Services Sarmiento has been a member of the AOS of Cambridge. Fueglistaler’s research Operating on Summer Schedule: faculty for 35 years, teaching, inspiring and interests in atmospheric sciences ranges http://www.princeton.edu/transport mentoring countless young scientists over ation/ttroutes/ForrestalSummer201 the years. During his tenure as Director of 5.pdf the Program, he played a pivotal role in from cloud microphysics, radiation, to physically and mathematically sound development and critical insights in the large-scale dynamics. He is primarily subgrid-scale parameterizations for ocean physical nature and parameterization of interested in mechanisms of interactions dynamics, especially those related to ocean ocean processes.” between different processes on different mesoscale eddies, developing robust and scales, and how this interaction leads to the efficient numerical algorithms for ocean “We are elated to have Steve join our climate as we know it. Fueglistaler teaches circulation models, articulating/teaching faculty,” AOS Director Jorge Sarmiento AOS 523 Water in the Atmosphere and the fundamentals of ocean fluid dynamics said. “Our students and faculty will greatly GEO 415 Earth’s Atmosphere. and ocean climate models, and developing benefit from his scholarly expertise.” physically sound methods for analyzing the Fueglistaler is eager to begin his ocean as a complex hydro-thermodynamic Griffies holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical directorship and looks forward to working system. Physics from the University of closely with everyone in the AOS Program. Pennsylvania. He earned his M.A. in “It is a great honor for me to follow Jorge Engineering Sciences & Applied Sarmiento as Director of the Princeton Mathematics from Northwestern AOS Program,” said Fueglistaler. “Jorge's University. ■ guidance and directorship have been of tremendous importance for the AOS program -- a vibrant program with a proud heritage. On the one hand, my objectives Symposium Held in are ensuring continuity and maintaining the core strengths of the Program, and on the Manabe’s Honor other hand introducing new elements for a Program that continues to attract the best A symposium in Syukuro (Suki) Manabe’s future scholars.” honor was held on Monday, April 20, 2015 in the Friend Center on Main Campus. The In addition to his role as Director of the symposium was held to celebrate the Program, Fueglistaler has also been named lifetime achievements of Manabe, a the AOS Program’s Director of Graduate pioneer in the use of computers to simulate Studies (DGS) for the upcoming academic global climate change and natural climate year, having served as a committee AOS Lecturer Steve Griffies variations, and to commemorate his 2015 member since the 2010-2011 academic Benjamin Franklin Institute Medal in Earth year. His appointment results from current Griffies is active in ocean and climate and Environmental Science. DGS Isaac Held’s resignation at the end of model development and analysis at GFDL, the academic year, after three years of having co-chaired working groups charged service. with building IPCC class climate models for the past 15 years. Internationally, he Fueglistaler holds a Ph.D. from the chaired the CLIVAR Working Group on Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Ocean Model Development (WGOMD); Science (IACETH), ETH Zurich, and was a member of the earned a M.Sc. from the University of CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Zurich. ■ Region Implementation Panel; and presently is a member of the CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group. In 2013, (Credit: The Franklin Institute) Griffies Appointed Griffies was awarded the Department of Commerce Silver Medal Award along with CEE Chair James Smith, the William and Lecturer in nine other GFDL scientists for the Edna Macaleer Professor of Engineering development and application of NOAA’s and Applied Science, opened the Geosciences and first comprehensive Earth System Model symposium and introduced Manabe before that couples the carbon cycle and climate a packed house of graduate students, AOS for projection of changes. postdocs, faculty, and GFDL scientists. “There were 130 seats; at the end of Suki’s Steve Griffies has been appointed a Griffies has authored numerous scientific talk, there were approximately twenty Lecturer in the Department of Geosciences publications; contributed to dozens of people standing,” Smith said. This would and the AOS Program effective July 1, scholarly journals; written a monograph of not come as a surprise to anyone who is 2015. He will be co-teaching AOS 571 ocean climate model fundamentals in 2004; familiar with Manabe’s career. He was a Introduction to Geophysical Fluid and co-edited a volume summarizing the mentor to several generations of scientists Dynamics in the fall of 2015. state-of-the-science in ocean climate who are now working at the University, science as of 2013. In 2014, Griffies was GFDL, and around the globe. A physical scientist in GFDL’s Oceans and awarded the Fridtjof Nansen Medal by the Climate Group, Griffies’ research activities European Geosciences Union (EGU) “for In his talk “Global climate change,” include understanding the ocean’s role in his outstanding contribution and leadership Manabe presented some of the highlights the global climate system, formulating in ocean general circulation model from the modeling study of global warming that he participated in during the last Program has honored the greatest minds in institutions around the country will offer several decades. Several presentations by science, engineering, technology and their perspectives about what GFDL has esteemed colleagues followed Manabe’s, business for more than 190 years, and now contributed to the greater community. illustrating the impact of his pioneering Manabe, who can reasonably be considered Many of the invited speakers spent time at work. Talks examined the advances that the father of climate modeling, joins their GFDL as graduate students, post-docs, or have been made in the understanding of ranks. ■ visiting scientists over the past six decades, climate variability and methods for and they will also offer their reflections predicting future climate change. about the role GFDL played in their Speakers included: Ronald Stouffer th careers. (GFDL) “Are climate models reliable?,” GFDL Marks 60 Thomas Delworth (AOS/GFDL) “The role The symposium will take place at of the Atlantic meridional overturning Anniversary with Princeton University’s Taylor Auditorium. circulation in the climate system,” Thomas As more information becomes available, Knutson (GFDL) “Tropical cyclones and Scientific such as the agenda and information about climate change,” and Isaac Held hotel arrangements, it will be published at (AOS/GFDL) “Some outstanding problems Symposium in https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/60th- and future prospects.” anniversary. ■ November 2015 The symposium was an opportunity for Contributed by Maria Setzer, GFDL those in attendance to personally reflect on Communications Director the remarkable contributions that Manabe SOCCOM Annual has made during his decades-long career, In 1955, a gallon of gas cost 23 cents, and both to science and the scientific average yearly wages were $4,130 in the Meeting Held on community. These include a seminal paper U.S. It was the year that Albert Einstein he coauthored in 1967 in the Journal of died and Bill Gates was born. Dwight D. Main Campus Eisenhower was President. It was also the Atmospheric Sciences that demonstrated year that GFDL was founded, in a small that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide In mid-May, a group of international cross- office on Pennsylvania Avenue just a concentrations would increase the altitude disciplinary experts from the Southern couple of blocks from the White House. at which Earth radiated heat to space, and Ocean Carbon Climate Observations and This year, GFDL will mark its 60th the first published simulations of Earth’s Modeling (SOCCOM) program came anniversary with a symposium that will climate with coupled ocean and together to review the progress of the past look back at the lab’s impact on the climate atmosphere models (with AOS Senior year and plan for the second year of a NSF community and society at large. The Meteorologist Kirk Bryan), establishing the sponsored, six-year initiative that focuses history of GFDL is closely intertwined role of oceanic heat transport in on unlocking the mysteries of the Southern with the history of the computer, numerical determining global climate. Another Ocean and determining its influence on weather prediction, and climate modeling. landmark paper in 1975 refined the earlier climate. The annual meeting was held May
models by representing additional elements 12-14, 2015 in Jadwin Hall on Main of the atmosphere-land-ocean climate Campus. system, and demonstrated an even higher rate of global warming given increasing atmospheric CO2. Newer climate models, such as those that formed the basis of recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, reinforce the warnings that Manabe first articulated over 40 years ago.
“All of what we do has roots in Suki’s Joseph Smagorinsky (standing) and early work; we in the scientific community, Roderick Graham check output from the SOCCOM Annual Meeting Participants and the world over, owe him a debt of IBM STRETCH computer, in the computer gratitude,” AOS Director Jorge Sarmiento room of the Weather Bureau’s General Housed at Princeton under the Directorship said. As for Manabe, the feeling seems to Circulation Research Laboratory in of CICS Director Jorge Sarmiento, be mutual. “It was an overwhelming joy to Washington, D.C. in 1962. By 1967, the SOCCOM draws on the strengths of teams talk about global warming in front of such lab had moved to Princeton and of investigators across the U.S. as well as an eager audience.” was renamed Geophysical Fluid Dynamics participates in international observational Laboratory. and simulation efforts. Earlier this year, Manabe was formally presented his medal the first 10 of a newly developed set of nd rd at a ceremony on April 23, 2015 at The To be held on November 2 and 3 , the Argo floats equipped with sensors to Franklin Institute in Center City, symposium will focus on past measure pH and concentrations of nutrients Philadelphia. One of the oldest and most accomplishments, current research and chlorophyll were released into the prestigious comprehensive science awards frontiers, and the future of climate Southern Ocean. Another 200 or so are in the world, The Franklin Institute Awards modeling. Speakers from academic planned to be deployed in the region over the next six years under the SOCCOM Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), Albert G. Milbank Professor of project with support from NSF’s Division University of Washington (UW), Geosciences and International Affairs, of Polar Programs, NOAA, and NASA. University of Arizona, Climate Central, Woodrow Wilson School. The SOCCOM floats are designed to University of Miami Rosenstiel School of provide near real-time monitoring of ocean Marine and Atmospheric Science Inspired by previous study in China and carbon storage and changes in nutrient (RSMAS), Oregon State University (OSU), interests in environmental policy and supply. The data will be used to improve NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and history, Baldwin is currently studying the recently developed high-resolution Earth- Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), extratropical arid regions that stretch across system models that will heighten our NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics interior Asia. She hopes to improve understanding of the Southern Ocean and Laboratory (GFDL), and NOAA Pacific understanding of the controls on this allow for better projections of Earth’s Marine Environmental Laboratory region’s basic climate, as a prerequisite to climate and biogeochemical trajectory. (PMEL). ■ examining its environmental change.
Twelve SOCCOM-funded BGC-floats “For my PEI-STEP project, I will use were deployed in December 2014 and PEI-STEP several models to quantify how the January 2015 on a cruise of the Alfred correlated risk of heat waves and drought Wegener Institute's R/V Polar stern from Fellowship over the United States may vary with Cape Town, South Africa to Neumayer climate change. I will then explore the Station, Antarctica and back. Two Awarded to policy implications of these results, additional floats were deployed by particularly for Federal crop insurance Australia Marine National Facility’s new Baldwin policies,” said Baldwin. research vessel Investigator in late March as part of a cruise to deploy a full set of AOS Graduate Student Jane Baldwin has Baldwin joins an impressive group of PEI- Southern Ocean Time Series moorings. been awarded a 2015 PEI-STEP STEP Fellows, many of whom have gone Environmental Policy Fellowship by the on to pursue positions of environmental “We are deeply committed to the initiative Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI). leadership in academic, government, and excited about the masses of data that Baldwin will join fellow 2015 Awardees nonprofit, and industry sectors following will be the end result,” Sarmiento said. “It Ryan Edwards (Civil and Environmental their time at Princeton, including former really is going to transform our Engineering), Jack Hoang Lu (Chemical AOS Graduate Students Curtis Deutsch understanding of the Southern Ocean and and Biological Engineering), and Andrew and Ian Lloyd who were awarded the its role in climate change and Tilman and Timothy Treuer (Ecology and Fellowship in 2000 and 2009 respectively, biogeochemistry.” Evolutionary Biology) in addressing the former Geosciences Graduate Student environmental policy implications of their Bryan Mignone who was awarded the SOCCOM co-investigators were highly thesis research through supplementary Fellowship in 2001, former AOS Graduate visible at the annual meeting and played a coursework and policy-oriented research Student Joe Majkut who was awarded the key role in setting the agenda. Along with over the course of the next two years. fellowship in 2011, and current AOS these institutional partners, scientists from Graduate Student Geeta Persad who was Princeton and GFDL used the opportunity awarded the fellowship in 2013. ■ to evaluate year one progress on observations, modeling, and the broader impacts of the Program, as well as to discuss year two planning. The meeting Three Students included numerous science presentations on topics ranging from floats and float data Accept Offers of to climate model simulations of the Admission Southern Ocean, poster sessions, and topical discussions. SOCCOM Director Jorge Sarmiento, Carolina Dufour (AOS), In a year with a near-record number of Ivy Frenger (AOS), Alison Gray (AOS), applications to the AOS Program, three Roberta Hotinski (PEI), Steve Griffies graduate students accepted offers of (GFDL), Bob Key (AOS), V. Ramaswamy Jane Baldwin, Perkins Fellow admission to the Program for the 2015- (GFDL), and Mike Winton (GFDL), 2016 academic year. This was the second among others, were all on hand to lend Using a combination of dynamical climate largest applicant pool in the Program’s their expertise to the conversation. models and atmospheric observations to history. elucidate the ties between global and “The initiative is truly a collaborative effort regional climate with the goal of improving “We continue to be really impressed with in every sense,” said Sarmiento. “It is predictions of climate change at regional the caliber of students who apply to our extraordinary to be part of it.” levels, Baldwin will focus her research on Program, and this year was certainly no the “Correlated Risk of Climate Extremes exception,” AOS Director Jorge Sarmiento SOCCOM is a collaboration of senior with Global Warming and its Implications said. researchers from Princeton, Monterey Bay for Catastrophe Insurance,” under the Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), advisement of Michael Oppenheimer, The University and the AOS Program climate of Earth, and then ask how this can predictions for marine resource continues to be a very attractive place for help us to understand the Earth’s climate,” management, and to develop new and students from all over the world for Lutsko said. innovative applications of these prediction graduate study, which extended a trend of systems. The workshop was sponsored by rising application totals in recent years. Confirmed invited speakers for the three- the Cooperative Institute for Climate Applications to the Program came from day event include: Matthew Huber, Science (CICS) and was held in Lewis around the globe, with 74% of the University of New Hampshire; Natalie Library on Main Campus. applicant pool comprised of international Burls, George Mason University; and students. In addition to international Robin Wordsworth, Harvard University. According to Charlie Stock (GFDL) and students, the Program continued to attract Huber’s research interests focus on Desiree Tommasi (AOS), the workshop’s top students from around the United States. modeling warm climates in the past and co-organizers, talks and discussions began The new students hail from Cornell estimating climate sensitivity using paleo early Wednesday morning, providing an University, Marshall University, and the records. Burls’ research encompasses overview of climate effects on fisheries and University of South Carolina. ocean - atmosphere interactions on the fisheries management framework. The geological time scales, and Wordsworth talks also focused on communicating the “They are a remarkable group; I am conducts research in the areas of capabilities of present seasonal to decadal confident they will energize our campus atmospheres of exoplanets, Mars, and the prediction systems, and presenting a and AOS community,” said Sarmiento. early Earth. synthesis of the predictive skill of seasonal to decadal climate predictions for As Sarmiento has noted in the past, the Following a slightly different format than ecosystem-relevant physical climate AOS admissions process is both thorough the past two years, each speaker will give a variables. and rigorous. “I would be remiss if I didn’t public seminar, a “theoretical” tutorial on thank our faculty for their tireless the theory/background of their work, an “The workshop was intended to gather dedication to the process, particularly Isaac “observational” tutorial on how they use experts from the fisheries and climate Held, our DGS, and Graduate Work observations in their research, and a hands- sciences to discuss the utility and Committee Members Stephan Fueglistaler on session in which they may lead a paper challenges of including seasonal to decadal and Larry Horowitz,” Sarmiento said. discussion, discuss some of their code, etc. climate forecasts into the management of “Their efforts resulted in another Open to the entire AOS/GFDL community, living marine resources,” Tommasi said. outstanding class.” the public seminars will be held in GFDL’s Smagorinsky Room on each day of the GFDL and AOS scientists were among the A new student orientation is being planned workshop. presenters. AOS Lecturer Gabe Vecchi for early fall. ■ discussed the design, output streams, Beyond these formal events, the workshop strengths, and limitations of present will include numerous opportunities for seasonal to interannual climate prediction causal interaction among the speakers and systems. Stock discussed the prediction of 3rd Annual AOS AOS students and faculty. Building on the SST anomalies in coastal ecosystems, and success of the first two workshops, the Rym Msadek (UCAR/GFDL) described Program Workshop third workshop hopes to connect expert seasonal predictions of Arctic sea ice. climate scientists from outside of the Announced University with AOS students and to foster Thursday morning focused on presenting collaboration and community within the examples of successful implementation of The AOS Program will be hosting the AOS and GFDL community and beyond. seasonal forecasts in marine management “Challenges in applying present and identifying further proof of concept atmospheric models to study extreme The Planning Committee will be finalizing applications to assess the utility of seasonal climate scenarios” workshop from August the workshop agenda and logistical details climate predictions for marine resource 5-7 , 2015, marking the third straight year over the summer months. Questions management. Barbara Muhling, an AOS the Program will host a workshop related to the Workshop may be directed to associate research scholar, discussed the generously funded by Isaac Held’s BBVA committee members. ■ spatial management of bluefin tuna in the Foundation award. Gulf of Mexico and Tommasi presented a talk on incorporating seasonal climate According to AOS Graduate Students Fisheries and forecasts into a harvest guideline control Tsung-Lin Hsieh, Jaya Khanna, and Nick rule for Pacific sardine. Lutsko, members of the Workshop Climate Scientists Planning Committee, this year’s speakers The final day of the workshop presented were chosen to provide complementary Converge on Main some of the future challenges facing the perspectives on how to tackle a range of use of seasonal climate predictions for extreme climate scenarios. “The aim of the Campus marine resource management. GFDL’s workshop is to have a discussion about the Keith Dixon described the challenge of challenges of modeling extreme climates More than sixty fisheries and climate scale: downscaling techniques to help (from Earth’s past or on other planets), scientists converged on Main Campus from refine seasonal predictions and Tom particularly how this challenges our June 3-5, 2015 to assess the utility of Delworth, an AOS lecturer, reported on intuition which is tuned to the present day present seasonal to decadal climate decadal climate prediction: physical underpinnings and future prospects. with the children and their families: “ocean With nearly 50 exhibitors participating in Tommasi facilitated the workshop’s final acidification in a cup,” “iceberg melting,” the event, attendees were given the discussion session which explored the and “taste the difference between the bay opportunity to learn firsthand from marine benefits and limitations of downscaled and the ocean.” scientists, researchers, and projections with regard to fisheries environmentalists how to protect our environmental data needs, discussed the “A few of the kids were brave enough to natural resources, and Princeton and GFDL kinds of information decadal forecasts can try the latter, but some spat it out quickly!” volunteers, and their families, were able to provide fisheries managers, and considered Legg said. “We had a continuous stream take turns visiting other exhibits, the beach, the best practices to apply seasonal climate of children with their parents at our table, as well as the NOAA Lab at Sandy Hook. forecast information into the marine which was one of the few exhibits where resource management framework. kids could actually do the experiment.” “Ocean Fun Days was a great experience to introduce New Jersey families to some In addition to daily discussion sessions, a oceanographic and climate topics in a poster session and reception was held on relaxed beachside environment,” AOS the first day of the workshop which Graduate Student Rob Nazarian said. “It provided a focus for informal discussion. was also a great learning experience for the Further discussion and brainstorming took student and postdoc volunteers, as it place during the ensuing two days of the provided an opportunity for us to get out of workshop during meals and breaks. the modeling mindset to perform simple tabletop experiments.” “The workshop brought together a diverse group of scientists with a common interest “It was a good opportunity for our students in applying short-term climate predictions and postdocs to hone their communication toward sustainable marine resource skills and have some fun at the same time,” AOS Postdoctoral Research Fellow Ivy management,” Stock said. “The pioneering said Legg. Frenger & CICS Director Sonya Legg, an applications presented gave reason for AOS faculty member considerable optimism, and the workshop The New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium, identified concrete steps for addressing which sponsors the event in coordination Sunday brought sunnier skies, a warmer remaining challenges.” ■ with the state Department of temperature, and Scientists Stuart Evans Environmental Protection, is an affiliation (PEI), Ivy Frenger (AOS), Jasmin John of colleges, universities and other groups (GFDL), Rob Nazarian (AOS), to Sandy dedicated to advancing knowledge and Hook, where they joined Legg and her AOS/GFDL stewardship of New Jersey’s marine and eldest daughter, Amelia, to lead the hands- coastal environment and meets its mission on activities before a large crowd. Scientists Turn Out through innovative research, education and
extension programs. Nearly 30,000 for Ocean Fun Days participants; students, their families, teachers, Scouts and the general public take 2015 part annually in the Consortium’s Education Programs and special events. ■ AOS and GFDL scientists joined forces with fellow scientists and environmentalists from around the state to promote the wise use of New Jersey’s Southeast marine and coastal resources during the AOS Graduate Student Rob Nazarian and twelfth annual celebration of Ocean Fun Stuart Evans (PEI) Atmosphere Days at the Jersey Shore. The 2015 event
was held on Saturday, May 16th, and Studies Workshop In addition to the educational displays and Sunday, May 17th in Island Beach State exhibits, eco-friendly activities included Park and Sandy Hook, and provided 2015 seining lessons, coastal crafts, an energy- interactive activities for school-aged saving scavenger hunt, youth fishing children and their families. clinics, face painting, touch tanks, a student From June 8-10, 2015, the atmospheric modeling community came together at science fair competition and the New Despite an ominous sky and some early Jersey Sea Grant Consortium’s fiddler crab GFDL to evaluate, diagnose, and improve rain, Rebecca Asch (AOS), Alison Gray races. A clamming the bay activity was climate and air quality modeling of (AOS), Karen Paffendorf (AOS), Alon also held at Island Beach State Park. As in different temporal and spatial scales for Stern (AOS), Ben Mater (AOS), and past years, the Sandy Hook location also improved representation of fundamental Hannah Zanowski (AOS) joined AOS included guided tours of many of Sandy atmospheric processes. More than sixty Faculty Member Sonya Legg, who Hook’s historic sites and an open house at leading scientists from across the nation coordinated the outreach effort, on the NOAA/James J. Howard Marine attended the Southeast Atmosphere Studies Saturday at Island State Beach Park. The Sciences Laboratory. Workshop which focused on using the data researchers conducted three experiments collected in 2013 during the Southeast Atmosphere Studies (SAS) to investigate Atmosphere Studies across this wide range biosphere-atmosphere interactions and the of perspectives in order to best inform, formation of secondary organic aerosol constrain, and evaluate processes in (SOA) in the atmosphere. The workshop atmospheric chemistry models.” was co-sponsored by the Cooperative Institute for Climate Science (CICS). The SAS workshop was a great success, according to Mao, an AOS associate The effort focused primarily on models that research scholar. “Top-notch scientists simulate the formation of SOA and other from across the country gathered to share L to R: CICS Scientist Hannah Zanowski, trace species in the troposphere over the their understanding of the interactions AOS Colleagues Ivy Frenger, Anna Southeast US, with the ultimate goal of between human activities, terrestrial Trugman, Rebecca Asch, and Alison Gray understanding the radiative impacts of vegetation, air quality, and climate over the these species. The workshop addressed Southeast US. This region has experienced offering hands-on demonstrations and questions that are important for gaining a large increases in population and large experiments to the middle and high school better understanding of air quality and changes in air pollutant emissions over the aged girls in attendance as a way of climate in the Southeast US. To answer past decades, and has exhibited a poorly immersing them in science, in addition to key questions concerning the role of understood “warming hole” over the past introducing them to women scientists and anthropogenic and biogenic emissions in century,” Mao said. “Experimentalists and the wide breadth of careers available to contributing to high ozone and particulate modelers have identified several them in STEM fields. matter concentrations over the Southeast outstanding gaps between measurements US and to develop the best strategy for and models that can be addressed using About 25 exhibitors were set up inside the modeling SOA over this region, a group of data from the Southeast Atmosphere Frick building, showcasing everything national experts presented talks and led studies.” from 3-D printers to hydrogen gas-powered discussions surrounding four key themes: model cars. The CICS interactive displays gas phase chemistry, aerosol chemistry, Workshop findings and recommendations included an experiment exploring ocean regional climate and chemistry will be presented in a final report to be acidification, a salinity taste test (students interactions, and natural and anthropogenic delivered to the larger atmospheric tasted water of different salinities and emissions. chemistry and climate community, ordered them from least salty to saltiest -- according to Horowitz and Mao. ■ the salinities of the water were designed to be comparable to ocean salinities from various parts of the world), and an “ice- CICS & AOS berg” experiment. In this last experiment, CICS/AOS scientists placed dyed ice cubes Scientists Reach into beakers containing either fresh water or salt water. Based on the behavior of the Out to Young meltwater from the ice cube in each, which floated on top of the salty water, but Women at 2015 convectively mixed into the fresh water, the students tried to guess which beaker
SAS Workshop 2015 Participants Conference had the salt water. The experiment demonstrated how both temperature and salinity determine the density of sea water, Among the attendees were federal On March 19, 2015, CICS and AOS th and showed how the supply of heat from scientists (from NOAA, NASA, and EPA) scientists took part in the 14 annual the ocean influences the rate of melt of ice- and academic researchers, from over a Young Women’s Conference in Science, bergs and ice-shelves. dozen universities, including Co-organizers Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Jingqiu Mao (AOS/CICS) and Larry along with prominent scientists and The annual event was launched in 2001 Horowitz (AOS/GFDL), Songmiao Fan engineers from around the region. Hosted with about 200 students from 26 schools in (GFDL), Paul Ginoux (GFDL), Tom by the Princeton Plasma Physics attendance, and has grown steadily over the Knutson (GFDL), Jingyi Li (AOS), Laboratory, the event attracted nearly 500 years. Surveys of young women attending Vaishali Naik (GFDL), Fabien Paulot students from 60 middle and high schools the Conference show that attending the (AOS/CICS), and V. Ramaswamy throughout New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and conference helps change their ideas about (GFDL). Maryland as a means of cultivating girls’ women and science. ■ interest in STEM subjects and career paths. “Laboratory chemists, field observationalists, and regional and global AOS Postdoctoral Research Associate GFDL Summer 2015 chemistry-climate modelers presented their Rebecca Asch, Ivy Frenger, an AOS findings relevant to air quality and climate postdoctoral research fellow, Alison Gray, Blood Drive…. over the Southeast US,” said Horowitz, an a postdoctoral research associate, AOS Monday, August 3, 2015 AOS lecturer and GFDL physical scientist. Graduate Student Anna Trugman, and “The workshop attempted to synthesize CICS Scientist Hannah Zanowski joined 11 am – 2 pm information from the Southeast CICS Associate Director Sonya Legg in geosciences. Recently, she served as an process. “I knew it was going to be a Sarah Kapnick expert for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife challenge to replace my observationalist’s Service, on a panel investigating whether hat with a modeler’s, but I felt I had to in Receives AGU the wolverine should be listed as order to really make progress. And I’m so Threatened under the Endangered Species glad I did – working with Jorge has finally Cryosphere Early Act. allowed me to gain mechanistic insight into observations that previously I could only Career Award AGU established the Cryosphere Early puzzle over. And having the expertise of Contributed by Maria Setzer, GFDL Career Award in 2004, to be given Rick Slater at AOS and John Dunne at Communications Director annually to one honoree in recognition of GFDL simplified my move into the world significant early career contributions to of model code,” he said. In a paper Sarah Kapnick has been recognized by cryospheric science and technology. The published in Earth and Planetary Science AGU with the Cryosphere Early Career award will be announced in Eos and Sarah Letters last year, Gregory and his co- Award for 2015. As a Physical Research will be recognized at the AGU Fall authors used the coarse-resolution GCM Scientist in the Climate Change, Meeting. ■ MOM3 to explain how ocean physics and Variability, and Predictions Group at biology combine to produce the silicon GFDL, Dr. Kapnick’s research focuses on isotope distribution he observed in the deep the mechanisms controlling extreme storms AOS & CICS ocean. and mountain snowpack. She uses data
from both observations and models to shed Research in Action A second focus of Gregory’s work in light on how the climate system has varied [This column is intended to focus on AOS Princeton has been adding a representation in the past, and what we might expect in & CICS research accomplishments and of Si cycling to the biogeochemical model the future. milestones, past, present, and future. In BLING, originally developed at AOS by this issue, we highlight the former post-doc Eric Galbraith. “In order to study the marine Si cycle in the current In a short period, Dr. Kapnick has made accomplishments of AOS Postdoctoral unique contributions to climate science by generation of GFDL’s ocean models, we Research Fellow Gregory de Souza who combining the use of very high-resolution needed a prognostic model of the silicon models with observations, to provide spent almost three years in the AOS cycle that reproduces the key observational critical new insights into the sensitivity of Program.] features of the oceanic Si distribution, specifically the circumpolar band of high-elevation cryospheric processes to Gregory de Souza joined the AOS Program negative Si* values in the Southern Ocean climate variability and change. Her work in April 2012 as a Swiss National Science to which the ocean biogeochemistry examines snowpack changes in Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow world’s attention was drawn by Jorge’s mountainous regions, and the underlying to work with Jorge Sarmiento on the Nature paper in 2004,” said de Souza. processes that drive the seasonal cycle of marine cycle of silicon, a vital nutrient for “With this addition to BLING, we now snowpack. Her ongoing research is the group of ocean phytoplankton known have that tool.” His immediate plans for expanding into the role of atmospheric as diatoms. using this tool include an in-depth study of rivers in hydro-climate variability and change, including their impact on western thermocline silicon isotope systematics in U.S. snowpack. the GFDL model MOM5.
In addition to his focus on oceanic silicon biogeochemistry, being at AOS has allowed de Souza to broaden his horizons and collaborate with oceanographers in the Sarmiento group on a wide range of subjects, such as the physical processes that transport nutrients and carbon in the Southern Ocean (a study led by Carolina Dufour) and the drivers of water mass Former AOS Postdoctoral Research transformation in ocean models and its Fellow Greg de Souza consequences for ocean carbon uptake and
storage (with Ivy Frenger), as well as “When I arrived in Princeton, I always collaborating with former AOS post-doc GFDL Physical Research Scientist referred to myself as an isotope Jaime Palter on diagnosing nutrient Sarah Kapnick geochemist. Now, three years later, every transport in the subarctic Pacific. “I’ve once in a while I catch myself saying I’m really enjoyed the challenge of thinking Dr. Kapnick’s contributions to the field an oceanographer. Mission accomplished!” about the ocean like a physical extend beyond her outstanding scientific said de Souza. By moving to the AOS oceanographer, and I’ve learned an research. As a post-doctoral research Program, Gregory hoped to better immense amount from my colleagues at fellow at GFDL, Dr. Kapnick was one of understand what processes governed the AOS. I hope we continue to span the the founders of Princeton Women in isotopic observations he’d made during his physical-biogeochemical divide in the Geosciences, a group dedicated to Ph.D. at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), and future!” promoting and supporting women in learn a lot about oceanography in the More broadly, Gregory says his time at GFDL Director V. Ramaswamy announced demonstrate a strong connection between Princeton has “really helped me grow as an that Whit Anderson, a GFDL high ozone days in the western U.S. during academic: in these years, I’ve had the oceanographer, has been selected as Acting late spring and La Niña, an ocean- chance to gain experience in writing grant Deputy Director of GFDL. His atmosphere phenomenon that affects global proposals, mentoring undergraduates, appointment became effective June 14, weather patterns. This linkage is important developing lab modules and guiding ocean 2015. for developing seasonal forecasts with a biogeochemistry practicals in addition to few months of lead time to aid in western doing research, and I now feel better ********************************************* U.S. air quality planning and for effective prepared for a career in science.” A Daily Global Mesoscale Ocean Eddy implementation of U.S. ozone standards. Dataset from Satellite Altimetry AOS Faculty Member Larry Horowitz is “Greg is an exceptional scientist and has a a coauthor of the study recently published promising career ahead of him,” Sarmiento Eddies play a significant role in the mixing in Nature Communications. GFDL said. “He has been a valuable asset to our and transport of heat, salt, and Research Highlights group and I am delighted to be continuing biogeochemical tracers across the global our collaboration.” oceans, and eddies have been shown to ********************************************* influence near-surface winds, clouds, and Dissecting the Ocean's Unseen Waves to In early 2015, Gregory moved to the ETH rainfall within their vicinity as well as Learn Where the Heat, Energy and Zurich, in order to continue his research on marine ecosystems. A new paper Nutrients Go the oceanic silicon isotope distribution, and coauthored by AOS Postdoctoral Research to set up new observation-modeling Fellow Ivy Frenger presents a dataset of CICS Associate Director Sonya Legg, an collaborations with the isotope ocean mesoscale eddies detected and AOS senior research oceanographer, and geochemistry and chemical oceanography tracked globally based on daily sea level colleagues from collaborating institutions communities. ■ height anomaly observations over two (including Maarten Buijsman, a former decades. The dataset can be used to AOS postdoc and now an assistant investigate ocean eddy characteristics and professor of physical oceanography at the AOS & CICS News effects, and the software used to create the University of Southern Mississippi) created eddy dataset is published in a repository. the first “cradle to grave” model of the Congratulations to Rebecca Asch, a The paper was published June 9 in world’s most powerful internal ocean NEREUS fellow and a postdoc in the Scientific Data. waves. The study was published online in Sarmiento Group, who was awarded the late April in Nature. Washington Post best early career scientist presentation for article ********************************************* her talk titled "Projected Mismatches Emergence of multiple ocean ecosystem Between the Phenology of Phytoplankton drivers in a large ensemble suite with an Arrivals Blooms and Fish Spawning Based on the Earth system model GFDL Earth System Model (ESM2M)" at Jonghun Kam comes to us from the Third International Symposium on the Marine ecosystems are increasingly Princeton's Department of Civil and Effects of Climate Change on the World's Environmental Engineering. Jonghun Oceans. The conference took place in late stressed by human-induced changes. Marine ecosystem drivers that contribute to began working with Tom Knutson and March in Santos, Brazil. Gabe Vecchi as a postdoc in April. stressing ecosystems – including warming, acidification, deoxygenation and ********************************************* Natasha Henschke, a postdoc and Nereus AOS Graduate Student Rob Nazarian was perturbations to biological productivity– can co-occur in space and time, but Fellow, arrived in late May from the recently selected as an inaugural Graduate University of New South Wales. She is Learning Fellow for the McGraw Center detecting their trends is complicated by the presence of noise associated with natural working in the Sarmiento Group with for Teaching. In this position he will work Charlie Stock and Jorge Sarmiento. with the McGraw Center, the University variability in the climate system. A new paper led by AOS Research Scholar Keith and the four other Graduate Learning Minjin Lee is from Princeton’s Fellows to implement new teaching Rodgers considers emergence characteristics for the four individual and Department of Civil and Environmental strategies in undergraduate curricula, plan Engineering. She began working with undergraduate academic workshops and combined drivers. The results underscore the importance of sustained multi-decadal Charlie Stock and Elena Shevliakova as a seminars, and oversee the undergraduate postdoc in June. tutoring center, among other smaller observing systems for monitoring multiple ecosystem drivers. The study was recently responsibilities. Adrien Deroubaix comes to us from École published in Biogeosciences. Polytechnique, France. He arrived in June ********************************************* to work with Paul Ginoux as a postdoc. Congratulations to Andrew Ballinger who ********************************************* successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis New Research will Help Forecast Bad Benjamin Sulman, a former postdoctoral “Tropical Cyclone Activity in an Ozone Days over the Western U.S. researcher at Indiana University, began Aquaplanet General Circulation Model” on working remotely with John Dunne and May 8, 2015. A new study led by AOS Associate Elena Shevliakova as an associate research Research Scholar Meiyun Lin uses scholar in June. ********************************************* observations and numerical simulations to
Henri Drake arrived in June, from Lionel Arteaga is arriving in August from Haverford College, to work with Adele GEOMAR. He will be working in the Morrison and Alison Gray as a research Sarmiento Group as a postdoc. assistant in the Sarmiento Group. Haidi Chen is arriving from the University 2015 summer undergraduates: Alex of Wisconsin in August. She will be Dominguez who will be working with Ivy working in the Sarmiento Group as a Frenger, Magdalena Carranza (Scripps), postdoc. and Rebecca Asch; Maricela Coronado who will be working with Keith Rodgers Colleen Petrik is arriving in August from and Ivy; Joanna Sobolewska who will be NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries working with Rebecca; Lauren Santi who Service (NMFS). She will be working with will be working with Alison Gray; Kate Jorge Sarmiento and Charlie Stock as an Begland who will be working with associate research scholar. Carolina Dufour and Alison; Paul Yi who will be working with Sonya Legg and Rob Mitch Bushuk is arriving in September Nazarian; and Alicia Menendez, an from the Courant Institute of Mathematical undergraduate from Stanford, who will be Sciences. He will be working with Rym working with Keith and Sarah Msadek, Gabe Vecchi, and Mike Winton as Schlunegger. a postdoc.
2015 summer intern with an AOS Seth Bushinsky is arriving in September
appointment working over at GFDL: from the University of Washington. He
Shaun Howe, an undergraduate from will be working in the Sarmiento Group as
Cornell University who will be working a postdoc.
with Vaishali Naik.
Welcome Back! Gustavo Marques arrived in late June
from the University of Miami. He will be Pablo Zurita-Gotor, a returning faculty working with Bob Hallberg as a member from the Universidad postdoctoral research associate. Complutense de Madrid, arrived in June.
Pablo will be working with Isaac Held. Nathaniel Chaney comes to us from
Princeton’s Department of Civil and Gabriel Lau, a former faculty member and Environmental Engineering. He will be GFDL scientist of 35 years, will arrive in working with Elena Shevliakova as a July to work with his AOS/GFDL postdoc beginning in July. colleagues for the summer months.
Honghai Zhang is arriving in July from Departures RSMAS, Miami to work as a postdoc with Tom Delworth. Philip Pika, who worked in the Sarmiento Max Popp is arriving in July from the Max Group for a few months, returned to ETH Planck Institute for Meteorology in Zurich in April. AOS Program Germany. He will be working with Isaac Princeton University Held as a postdoc. Mei-Ling Tang, a visiting student from 300 Forrestal Road, Sayre Hall National Chung Hsing University, returned Princeton, NJ 08540 Levi Silvers is arriving in July from the to Taiwan at the end of April. Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Phone: Germany. He will be working with Chris Jonas Nycander, a visiting faculty (609) 258-6047 Golaz, Yi Ming, and Ming Zhao as an member from Stockholm University, associate research scholar. returned to his home institution at the end Fax: of June. (609) 258-2850 Aaron Match, one of our incoming graduate students, will arrive from Cornell Birth Announcements We’re on the Web! in July to work with Stephan Fueglistaler.
scientist.