Experience

  • Research Associate III

    • Supervisor : Dr. Hyodae Seo
    Woods Hole Oceanogrpahic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA
    June 2023 - Present

  • Postodoctoral Investigator

    • Advisor : Dr. Hyodae Seo and Dr. Carol Anne Clayson
    Woods Hole Oceanogrpahic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA
    February 2020 - June 2023

  • Ph.D. student

    • Advisor : Dr. Cindy Lebeaupin Brossier, Dr. Marie-Noëlle Bouin and Dr. Véronique Ducrocq
    CNRM, Toulouse, France
    October 2016 - December 2019

  • Guest Student

    • Advisor : Dr. Anne Molcard and Dr. Yann Ourmières
    Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Toulon, France
    April 2015 - September 2015

Education

  • Engineering University - Hydrology Major

    • Polytech’Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France.
    2012-2015
    Semester in Incheon National University, South Korea, March - August 2014

Projects

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Current:

  • NSF PO (2022-2026): Improving understanding of coupled impacts of oceans and waves on air-sea fluxes in the US Northeast Coast. PIs: Seo, Sauvage, Edson and Clayson.
  • NASA MAP (2021-2024): Improving coupled atmosphere-ocean processes in NU-WRF for the simulation of coast-threatening extratropical cyclones in the northeastern US. PI: Seo, Edson, Clayson (all at WHOI), Braun & Shi (NASA GSFC).
  • DOE WFIP3 (2021-2026), Improving High Resolution Offshore Wind Resource Assessments and Forecasts using Observations in the MA/RI Lease Areas. Kirincich et al.
  • NOAA CVP (2019-2022), Coupled Ocean-atmosphere interaction mediated by ocean mesoscale eddies in the Northwestern Tropical Atlantic Ocean. PI : Seo and Clayson.

Past:

  • MISTRALS - HYMEX (2010-2020), Hydrological Cycle in Mediterranean Experiments. Drobinski et al., 2014.

Award

  • Travel grant received to attend the Workshop on "Atmosphere-ocean coupling at (sub)mesoscales", Leiden, the Netherlands, Sept. 2023.
  • Travel grant received as a early career scientist to attend the US CLIVAR Mesoscale and Frontal-Scale Air-Sea Interactions Workshop, Boulder,CO, USA, Mar. 2023.

Honor

  • Physical Oceanography Dissertation Symposium XI, Kaua'i, Hawai'i, USA, Oct. 2021. Sauvage C., C. Lebeaupin Brossier,  M-N. Bouin and V. Ducrocq : Ocean-atmosphere coupling for prediction of Mediterranean heavy precipitation events: better modeling and impacts of river runoff and sea state. Talk.

Teaching & Outreach

  • 'Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions Impact on Global Climate', Guest lecture in Earth and Science class at Glenville State University, Apr. 2023.
  • 'Introduction to Ocean Surface Waves', Guest lecture for the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, Nov. 2021.

Students

  • Co-advised Yoo-Jun Kim (Tokyo University) during November 2023-March 2024; Yoo-Jun is working on coastal and estuary circulation around Japan, looking into LES-scale winds and circulation.
  • Co-advised Peisen Tan (University of Miami) during Summer 2023; Peisen is working on laboratory and numerical modeling of short wind waves and swell interactions.

Service

  • Session chair : "Waves in the large-scale air-sea system" at The 4th workshop on Waves and Wave-Coupled Processes, Uppsala, Sweden, February 2023.
  • Session chair : "Regional / Shelf Scale" at the Physical Oceanography Dissertation Symposium XI, Kaua'i, Hawai'i, USA, Oct. 2021.
  • Ad hoc reviewer for the National Science Foundation (NSF).
  • Reviewer for Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR) Oceans; JGR Atmospheres; Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP); Geoscientific Model Development (GMD); Scientific Reports; Limnology;
  • Co-organizer of the Physical Oceanography Department Seminar at WHOI (2021-2022).
  • Member of Physical Oceanography Department Website Committee at WHOI (2022-2024).
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