Jennifer Ann Mackinnon (born September 16, 1973) is an American physical oceanographer who has studied small-scale dynamical processes in oceans for more than 20 years.[1] These processes include internal waves and ocean mixing, turbulence, sub-mesoscale instabilities, and their complex interaction.[2] She is a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) of the University of California, San Diego.[1] Her research requires extensive fieldwork at sea to observe these processes.
Mackinnon graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Major in Physics) with distinction from Swarthmore College in June 1995.[3] In June 1999, she completed a Master of Science at the Department of Oceanography of the University of Washington.[3] She then carried out a PhD in the same department that she defended in June 2002.[3]
Career and research
After some postdoctoral research at SIO from October 2002 to December 2003,[3] she was secured an assistant research faculty position[3] before being appointed associate professor[3] and professor.[1] In 2019, she was appointed Associate Dean for Faculty Equity[4] at Scripps Institution for Oceanography
In 2021, she demonstrated with coworkers in a publication in Nature Communications that pockets of warm water from the Pacific Ocean are accelerating the melting of sea ice[5][6][7][8][9]
2014 – the AMS Nicholas Fofonoff Award[10] for "outstanding contributions to the understanding of internal mixing in the ocean, artfully synthesizing observations, theory, and numerical modeling."
2018 – UC San Diego Inclusive Excellence Award[11]
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