Lynne Talley

Last updated
Lynne Talley
Born (1954-05-18) May 18, 1954 (age 70)
Schenectady, New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Marple-Newtown High School (1971)

BA Physics, Oberlin College (1976) Bachelor of Music, Oberlin College (1977)

PhD

Contents

Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1982)
Awards Huntsman Award (2003)
Scientific career
Fields Oceanography
Institutions Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
Website ltalley.scrippsprofiles.ucsd.edu

Lynne Talley (born May 18, 1954) is a physical oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography known for her research into the large-scale circulation of water masses in the global ocean.

Early life and education

Talley received a B.A. in physics in 1976 from Oberlin College and a Bachelor of Music (B.M.) in piano performance from Oberlin Conservatory of Music. [1] The following year, she studied piano performance with Carl Seeman at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in Freiburg, Germany. She continued her studies at the New England Conservatory of Music. After moving to San Diego, she studied music at San Diego State University. [2]

Talley started oceanographic research as a graduate student [3] and completed a Ph.D. in physical oceanography from the Joint Program in Oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1982. [4] After a postdoctoral research position at Oregon State University, she joined the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1984. [5]

Career and impact

Talley has worked at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego since 1984, and was named a distinguished professor in 2012. [5] While at Scripps, her research has combined analysis of ocean observations with advanced theoretical work to describe and map large-scale circulation. [6] Her work involves analysis of data from most of the world's oceans, depicting the movement of heat, salinity, and water masses, and the formation of water masses, particularly in subpolar regions. [7] In addition to academic publications, she has published a graduate level textbook on descriptive physical oceanography and two oceanographic atlases. [8] [9]

From 2004 to 2007 she was a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group and a lead author of the Fourth Assessment Report Working Group I chapter of the group's final report titled: "Observations: Oceanic Climate Change and Sea Level", [10] [11] which was released in February 2007. The report earned contributing scientists a share of the Nobel Peace Prize later that year. [12] She was also a lead author on the same topic for the Fifth Assessment Report. [13]

Talley has a long history of seagoing experiences. In 2000, Talley and co-principal investigator, Daniel Rudnick, worked with moorings and hydrography on the collaborative Okhotsk Sea dense water formation project. [14] In 2005-2006, Talley used hydrography, CTD, and profiling floats to understand Antarctic Intermediate Water formation in the southeast Pacific. [15] Since 2016, Talley has led the observation team of the SOCCOM project: Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling (SOCCOM), [16] [17] which is deploying biogeochemical profiling Argo floats throughout the Southern Ocean south of 30S. Starting in 2020, Talley has been one of the principal investigators for the Global Ocean Biogeochemistry Array (GO-BGC), which has begun deploying biogeochemical Argo floats globally. [18] She also continues as a principal investigator and member of the steering committee of the ongoing U.S. GO-SHIP, [19] which organizes and carries out the U.S. component of the international GO-SHIP program of deep-sea hydrographic cruises throughout the world's oceans.

Talley received the Albatross Award which has passed from one oceanographer to the next since 1959 [20] [21] and was presented to Talley at the 2016 Ocean Sciences meeting. [22]

In 2024 she was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

Honors

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Scripps Institution of Oceanography</span> Center for ocean and Earth science research

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) is the center for oceanography and Earth science based at the University of California, San Diego. Its main campus is located in La Jolla, with additional facilities in Point Loma.

The Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science is the University of Miami's academic and research institution for the study of oceanography, atmospheric, and earth sciences.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory</span> U.S. Government research laboratory

The Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), a federal research laboratory, is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), located in Miami in the United States. AOML's research spans tropical cyclone and hurricanes, coastal ecosystems, oceans and human health, climate studies, global carbon systems, and ocean observations. It is one of seven NOAA Research Laboratories (RLs).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Walter Munk</span> American oceanographer (1917–2019)

Walter Heinrich Munk was an American physical oceanographer. He was one of the first scientists to bring statistical methods to the analysis of oceanographic data. Munk worked on a wide range of topics, including surface waves, geophysical implications of variations in the Earth's rotation, tides, internal waves, deep-ocean drilling into the sea floor, acoustical measurements of ocean properties, sea level rise, and climate change. His work won awards including the National Medal of Science, the Kyoto Prize, and induction to the French Legion of Honour.

Sverdrup Gold Medal Award – is the American Meteorological Society's award granted to researchers who make outstanding contributions to the scientific knowledge of interactions between the oceans and the atmosphere.

John Crossley Swallow FRS was an English oceanographer who invented the Swallow float, a scientific drifting bottle based on the messages in bottles that shipwrecked sailors hoped would reach inhabited shores, summoning assistance.

Klaus Wyrtki was an American physical oceanographer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pearn P. Niiler</span> American oceanographer

Pearn "Peter" Niiler was an American oceanographer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Global Drifter Program</span> Program measuring ocean currents, temperatures and atmospheric pressure using drifters

The Global Drifter Program (GDP) was conceived by Prof. Peter Niiler, with the objective of collecting measurements of surface ocean currents, sea surface temperature and sea-level atmospheric pressure using drifters. It is the principal component of the Global Surface Drifting Buoy Array, a branch of NOAA's Global Ocean Observations and a scientific project of the Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP). The project originated in February 1979 as part of the TOGA/Equatorial Pacific Ocean Circulation Experiment (EPOCS) and the first large-scale deployment of drifters was in 1988 with the goal of mapping the tropical Pacific Ocean's surface circulation. The current goal of the project is to use 1250 satellite-tracked surface drifting buoys to make accurate and globally dense in-situ observations of mixed layer currents, sea surface temperature, atmospheric pressure, winds and salinity, and to create a system to process the data. Horizontal transports in the oceanic mixed layer measured by the GDP are relevant to biological and chemical processes as well as physical ones.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wolfgang H. Berger</span> American paleontologist

Wolfgang "Wolf" Helmut Berger was a German-American oceanographer, geologist, micropaleontologist and emeritus professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. His research interests comprise "micropaleontology, marine sedimentation, ocean productivity, carbon cycle, ocean history, climate history, and history of oceanography."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Susan Lozier</span> Physical oceanographer

Susan Lozier is a physical oceanographer and the dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Sciences. Previously, she was the Ronie-Richelle Garcia-Johnson Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Her research focuses on large-scale ocean circulation, the ocean's role in climate variability, and the transfer of heat and fresh water from one part of the ocean to another.

The Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling (SOCCOM) project is a large scale National Science Foundation funded research project based at Princeton University that started in September 2014. The project aims to increase the understanding of the Southern Ocean and the role it plays in factors such as climate, as well as educate new scientists with oceanic observation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Trevor McDougall</span>

Trevor John McDougallFAGU is a physical oceanographer specialising in ocean mixing and the thermodynamics of seawater. He is Emeritus Scientia Professor of Ocean Physics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, and is Past President of the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO) of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics.

Lisa A. Levin is a Distinguished Professor of biological oceanography and marine ecology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She holds the Elizabeth Hamman and Morgan Dene Oliver Chair in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation Science. She studies coastal and deep-sea ecosystems and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Kimberly A. Prather is an American atmospheric chemist. She is a distinguished chair in atmospheric chemistry and a distinguished professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and department of chemistry and biochemistry at UC San Diego. Her work focuses on how humans are influencing the atmosphere and climate. In 2019, she was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for technologies that transformed understanding of aerosols and their impacts on air quality, climate, and human health. In 2020, she was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences. She is also an elected Fellow of the American Philosophical Society, American Geophysical Union, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Amy Bower is an American physical oceanographer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She is known for her research on ocean circulation and for being one of the few blind oceanographers.

Rana Arnold Fine is Professor Emeritus at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science. Her research primarily addresses understanding ocean circulation processes over time through the use of chemical tracers and the connection to climate.

Paola Malanotte Rizzoli is a physical oceanographer known for her research on ocean circulation and sea level rise, especially with respect to flooding conditions in Venice.

Sarah Gille is a physical oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography known for her research on the role of the Southern Ocean in the global climate system.

Jennifer Ann Mackinnon is an American physical oceanographer who has studied small-scale dynamical processes in oceans for more than 20 years. These processes include internal waves and ocean mixing, turbulence, sub-mesoscale instabilities, and their complex interaction. She is a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Her research requires extensive fieldwork at sea to observe these processes.

References

  1. ↑ Waleson, Heidi (2006). "Double Duty Degree / Oberlin Alumni Magazine / Fall 2006". www2.oberlin.edu (102(2) ed.). Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  2. ↑ "Lynne Talley - music CV". sam.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-23.
  3. ↑ "Lynne Talley | Aspen Global Change Institute". www.agci.org. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  4. ↑ Talley, Lynne E. (1982). Instabilities and radiation of thin, baroclinic jets (Thesis thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/57721.
  5. 1 2 "Talley CV" (PDF). August 2019.
  6. ↑ "L. Talley". Research Profiles. Retrieved April 5, 2021.
  7. ↑ "For Better or Worse, Modern Ocean Explorers Stay Connected". LiveScience. February 1, 2008. Retrieved September 18, 2009.
  8. ↑ Talley, Lynne D., George L. Pickard, William J. Emery, James H. Swift (2011). Descriptive Physical Oceanography: An Introduction (6th ed.). Amsterdam: Academic Press. ISBN   9780750645522.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ Hydrographic Atlas of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) (PDF). Vol. 2: Pacific Ocean.
  10. ↑ "Global Climate Report Shaped by Local Hands". Voice of San Diego . January 18, 2007. Archived from the original on June 11, 2009. Retrieved September 18, 2009.
  11. ↑ "Chapter 5: Observations: Oceanic Climate Change and Sea Level - AR4 WGI". www.ipcc.ch. Retrieved June 26, 2016.
  12. ↑ "The Nobel Peace Prize 2007". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved May 17, 2016.
  13. ↑ "Observations:Ocean" (PDF). 2018.
  14. ↑ "Dense Water Formation in the Okhotsk Sea".
  15. ↑ "Process study of Antarctic Intermediate Water formation". www-pord.ucsd.edu. Retrieved June 26, 2016.
  16. ↑ "Programs | SOCCOM". soccom.princeton.edu. Retrieved May 17, 2016.
  17. ↑ "Talley | SOCCOM". soccom.princeton.edu. Retrieved May 17, 2016.
  18. ↑ St John, Alison. "Robotic Floats Will Collect New Data On How Climate Change Is Affecting Our Oceans". KPBS Public Media. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  19. ↑ "US GO-SHIP Program". usgoship.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  20. ↑ Knauss, John; Lill, Gordon; Maxwell, Arthur (1998). "Recounting the History of the Albatross Award". Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 79 (3): 31–35. Bibcode:1998EOSTr..79...31K. doi: 10.1029/98EO00022 . ISSN   2324-9250.
  21. ↑ Walker, R. (1973-10-19). "The Albatross Award". Science. 182 (4109): 220. Bibcode:1973Sci...182..220W. doi:10.1126/science.182.4109.220-a. ISSN   0036-8075. PMID   17749289. S2CID   46345304.
  22. ↑ Yehle, Emily (February 25, 2016). "Science: Giggles, giggles everywhere as oceanographers honor their own". www.eenews.net. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  23. ↑ "Press release" (PDF).
  24. ↑ "Rosenstiel Award Recipients". rsmas.miami.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
  25. ↑ "Lynne Talley". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
  26. ↑ "2003 LYNNE TALLEY". A. G. HUNTSMAN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE MARINE SCIENCES. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
  27. ↑ "Talley". Honors Program. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
  28. ↑ "List of Fellows". American Meteorological Society. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
  29. ↑ "tos-fellows-meet | The Oceanography Society". tos.org. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
  30. ↑ "Historic Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
  31. ↑ "IAPSO - The Prince Albert I Medal". iapso.iugg.org. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
  32. ↑ "Lynne D. Talley". European Geosciences Union (EGU). Retrieved 2021-05-20.
  33. ↑ "2017 Award Winners and Fellows". American Meteorological Society. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.