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.
Jennifer Mackinnon | |
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| Born | Jennifer Ann Mackinnon September 16, 1973 |
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| Thesis | Coastal Recipes: Internal waves, turbulence and mixing on the New England continental shelf. (2002) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Gregg |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Oceanography |
| Sub-discipline | Physical Oceanography |
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Early life and education
editMackinnon 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 Ph. D. in the same department that she defended in June 2002.[3]
Career and research
editAfter 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]
Awards and recognition
edit- 1991 – National Merit Finalist[3]
- 1999 – Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellowship at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution[3]
- 1997 - 2000 – National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship[3]
- 2011 – Scripps Graduate Teaching Award[3]
- 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]
References
edit- ^ a b c "JENNIFER MACKINNON". Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
- ^ Alford, Matthew H.; Peacock, Thomas; MacKinnon, Jennifer A. (29 April 2015). "The formation and fate of internal waves in the South China Sea" (PDF). Nature. 521 (7550): 65–69. Bibcode:2015Natur.521...65A. doi:10.1038/nature14399. PMID 25951285. S2CID 205243476.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Dr. Jennifer MacKinnon". UCSD. Archived from the original on 2019-11-13. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
- ^ "Our Team | Scripps Institution of Oceanography". scripps.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
- ^ MacKinnon, Jennifer A. (23 April 2021). "A warm jet in a cold ocean". Nature Communications. 12 (1): 2418. Bibcode:2021NatCo..12.2418M. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-22505-5. hdl:1912/27528. PMC 8065036. PMID 33893280. S2CID 233382188.
- ^ Escovedo, Mario (23 April 2021). "Scripps Institution of Oceanography researchers discover 'heat bombs' destroying Arctic ice". CBS8. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
- ^ O'Malley, Isabella (17 May 2021). ""Heat bombs" are destroying Arctic sea ice, oceanographers say". The Weather Network. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
- ^ Somos, Christy (18 May 2021). "'Heat bombs' of warm water are melting Arctic sea ice: study". CTV News. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
- ^ "'Heat Bombs' in Arctic Ocean Speeding Melt of Sea Ice, Say Scripps Scientists". Times of San Diego. 23 April 2021. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
- ^ "AMS Awards". American Meteorological Society. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
- ^ "Inclusive Excellence Awards". blink.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
External links
edit- Faculty profile at SIO