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Dr. Sarah T. Gille

Professor

Scripps Institution of Oceanography
348 Nierenberg Hall
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0230
Telephone: (858) 822-4425 (office)
FAX: (858) 534-9820
Internet: sgilleucsd.edu

Professor Gille earned a BS in physics at Yale and a PhD in physical oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program. She did postdoctoral research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and at the University of East Anglia, and was a faculty member at the University of California, Irvine. She joined the UCSD faculty in 2000.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Southern Ocean climate and dynamics. Wind-forcing of the Southern Ocean and heat transport via the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
Satellite oceanography from altimeter, scatterometer, microwave SST, etc.
Evaluating sub-surface mixing and stirring processes in the Southern Ocean. Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment in the Southern Ocean (DIMES)
Bio-physical interactions in the Antarctic Peninsula region. ("Blue Water Zone" web page)
Air-sea fluxes at high latitudes and especially in the Southern Ocean (US CLIVAR High Latitude Flux Working Group)
Diurnal variability in upper ocean temperature and surface winds.

PUBLICATIONS

Full publication list, reprints, and preprints.

COURSES TAUGHT

SIO 119: Physics and Chemistry of the Ocean, Winter 2013
SIO 219: Observational Oceanography Seminar, Fall 2012 (also Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Winter 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2004 , Spring 2003 , Fall 2001, Winter 2001)
SIO 221C: Data Analysis Laboratory, Fall 2012 (also Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2004)
MAE 124/ESYS 103: Environmental Challenges: Science and Solutions, Spring 2011. (Previously known as The Human Earth, and before that Introduction to Environmental Engineering) (also Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2006)
MAE 127: Statistical Methods for Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Spring 2005
ESYS 10: Introduction to Environmental Systems, Winter 2003 (also Winter 2002)
SIO 221B: Analysis of Physical Oceanographic Data, Fall 2002 (also Fall 2001)
STPA 35: Society and the Sea, Spring 2001

PRESENT STUDENTS, POST-DOCS

Magdalena Carranza, SIO graduate student (2009- ).
Marina Frants, SIO graduate student (2004-2011), postdoc (2011-2012).
Uriel Zajaczkovski, SIO graduate student (2009- ; with Stefan Llewellyn Smith).
Nathalie Zilberman, postdoc (2010- ; with Dean Roemmich).

PAST STUDENTS, POST-DOCS

Brian Chinn, MAE (MS) graduate student (2003-05), now a PhD student at U. Washington.
Shenfu Dong, postdoc (2004-2007), now at NOAA-AOML-CIMAS, U. Miami.
Kyla Drushka, SIO (PhD) graduate student (2005-2011), with Janet Sprintall, post-doc at LOCEAN, Paris.
Shane Elipot, SIO (PhD) graduate student (2001-06), now at RSMAS, University of Miami
ChuanLi Jiang, postdoc (2008-2011) with Janet Sprintall, now at Earth and Space Research, Seattle.
Alexa Griesel, postdoc (2005-2011); with Janet Sprintall, now at University of Hamburg.
Gordon Stephenson, SIO (PhD) graduate student (2006-2012), with Janet Sprintall, now a post-doc at the University of Bangor, Wales.
Philip Sura, postdoc (2001-02), now at Florida State University.
Erik Tang, MAE (BS/MS) graduate student (2008-10), with Julia Muccino, Lisa Levin, and Bruce Cornuelle).
Wilbert Weijer, postdoc (2003-05), now at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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