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Jennifer Mackinnon

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Jennifer Mackinnon
Born
Jennifer Ann Mackinnon

(1973-09-16) September 16, 1973 (age 51)
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisCoastal Recipes: Internal waves, turbulence and mixing on the New England continental shelf. (2002)
Doctoral advisorMichael Gregg
Academic work
DisciplineOceanography
Sub-disciplinePhysical Oceanography
Institutions
Main interests
  • Physical Oceanography
  • Internal Waves and Ocean Mixing
  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Sub-mesoscale instabilities
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions
  • Applied Ocean Sciences

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.

Early life and education

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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 Ph. D. in the same department that she defended in June 2002.[3]

Career and research

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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]

Awards and recognition

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  • 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

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  1. ^ a b c "JENNIFER MACKINNON". Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Our Team | Scripps Institution of Oceanography". scripps.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Escovedo, Mario (23 April 2021). "Scripps Institution of Oceanography researchers discover 'heat bombs' destroying Arctic ice". CBS8. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  7. ^ O'Malley, Isabella (17 May 2021). ""Heat bombs" are destroying Arctic sea ice, oceanographers say". The Weather Network. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  8. ^ Somos, Christy (18 May 2021). "'Heat bombs' of warm water are melting Arctic sea ice: study". CTV News. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  9. ^ "'Heat Bombs' in Arctic Ocean Speeding Melt of Sea Ice, Say Scripps Scientists". Times of San Diego. 23 April 2021. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  10. ^ "AMS Awards". American Meteorological Society. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
  11. ^ "Inclusive Excellence Awards". blink.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
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