Education

2012 Ph.D. Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz
Dissertation: Controls on Primary Productivity and its Measurement in Coastal Upwelling Systems
2005 B.S. Aerospace Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
Minor, Applied Mathematics

Professional Appointments

2017- Research Oceanographer, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Monterey, CA and NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO
2014- Assistant Project Scientist, UC Santa Cruz / NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Monterey, CA
2012-2014 Post-doctoral Researcher, UC Santa Cruz
2008-2012 Graduate Researcher, UC Santa Cruz, CA
2005-2008 Systems Engineer, Atmospheric Observing Systems Inc., Boulder, CO
2003-2005 Biology Laboratory Assistant, UC Boulder
2004 Structural Engineer, Stress Analysis and Design Engineering, Malvern, England
2002 Structural Engineer, L-3 Communications – Spar Aerospace, Edmonton, Canada

Teaching

2015-2020 Instructor, Inquiry Institute, UC Santa Cruz Institute for Scientist and Engineer Educators
2019 Guest Lecturer, ENSTU 309 – Science and Policy of Global Change, California State University Monterey Bay
2013 Guest Lecturer, METR/OCN 450 – Air-Sea Interactions, San Francisco State University
2011 Course Designer/Lead Instructor, Workshop for Engineering and Science Transfers, UC Santa Cruz
2011 Teaching Assistant, OCEA80A – Life in the Sea, UC Santa Cruz
2010 Course Designer/Instructor, Akamai Maui Short Course, Maui Community College, HI
2009 Course Designer/Instructor, Ocean Sciences Laboratory, UC Diversity Forum, UC Santa Cruz

Grants Received

2019-2021 NOAA MAPP: Coupled climate stressors along the west coast of North America: Drought, marine heat waves, HABs, and hypoxia. PIs: R. Rykaczewski, M. Jacox (lead), M. Garcia-Reyes, B. Black, S. Bograd, W. Sydeman. Budget: $199,307.
2018-2021 NOAA JPSS: Assimilating NOAA VIIRS data into near-teal-time ocean models to support fisheries applications off the US west coast. PIs: M. Jacox (lead), S. Bograd, C. Edwards, E. Hazen, A. Moore, C. Wilson. Budget: $422,292.
2018-2021 NOAA JPSS: Using VIIRS to operationalize dynamic EBFM tools on the U.S. East and West Coasts. PIs: E. Hazen, M. Jacox, D. Robinson, C. Wilson, S. Bograd. Budget: $590,340.
2018-2021 Lenfest: Traits-based tools to inform cross-jurisdictional fisheries management under climate change. PIs: S. Green, L. Crowder, S. Bograd, E. Hazen, M. Jacox. Budget: $401,200.
2018-2021 NOAA COMT: Advancing the West Coast Ocean Forecasting System through assessment, model development, and ecological products. PIs: C. Edwards, C. Anderson, E. Bayler, J. Fiechter, R. Kudela, A. Moore, E. Hazen, M. Jacox, A. Kurapov, P. MacCready, J. Newton, H. Ruhl. Budget: $899,108.
2018-2020 NOAA FATE: Quantifying spatiotemporal distribution, abundance, and environmental drivers of euphausiids in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem. PIs: S. Parker-Stetter, D. Chu, S. Gauthier, C. Harvey, M. Hunsicker, M. Jacox, O. Shelton, R. Thomas, N. Tolimieri. Budget: $170,000.
2017-2020 NOAA CPO COCA: From physics to fisheries: A social-ecological management strategy evaluation for the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem. PIs: M. Jacox (lead), M. Alexander, S. Bograd, E. Curchitser, C. Edwards, J. Fiechter, E. Hazen, A. Himes-Cornell, R. Rykaczewski, S. Stohs. Budget: $1,991,674.
2017-2020 NOAA CPO MAPP: Downscaled seasonal forecasts for living marine resource management off the US west coast. PIs: M. Jacox (lead), M. Alexander, S. Bograd, C. Edwards, J. Fiechter, E. Hazen, S. Siedlecki. Budget: $538,194.
2017-2018 Benioff Ocean Initiative: A fine-scale dynamic management tool to minimize whale ship strike risk in the northeast Pacific. PIs: E. Hazen, S. Bograd, M. Jacox. Budget: $106,750.
2017-2018 NOAA CIO HPCC: Biological Ocean Reanalyses for Fisheries Applications off the US West Coast. PIs: S. Bograd, M. Jacox, C. Edwards. Budget: $149,946.
2016-2017 NOAA BREP: El Niño Watch revised – An improved index for reducing Loggerhead Turtle by catch in the California Current. PIs: H. Bailey, L. Crowder, S. Bograd, E. Hazen, D. Robinson, C. Wilson, M. Jacox, K. Scales, D. Briscoe. Budget: $134,262.

Awards

2019 U.S. CLIVAR Early Career Climate Leadership Award
2017 National Marine Fisheries Service Team Member of the Year
2014 Best Talk, Physical Oceanography and Climate Committee, PICES Annual Meeting
2011 Dr. Earl H. Myers and Ethel M. Myers Oceanographic and Marine Biology Trust Research Grant
2009 Friends of Long Marine Lab Student Research Award
2008 University of California Regents Fellowship
2005 People’s Choice Award, University of Colorado Engineering Design Expo
2004 Tony Tisone Engineering Scholarship, University of Colorado
2003 J. Ranald Fox Memorial Scholarship, University of Colorado
2001 James H. Cole Engineering Scholarship, University of Colorado
1999 British Columbia Aviation Council Private Pilot Award
1999 Recreational Pilot of the Year, Pacific Flying Club, British Columbia, Canada

Invited Presentations

2019 NOAA Earth System Science and Modeling Annual Workshop, Silver Spring, MD
NOAA Climate Connections Meeting, Silver Spring, MD
NOAA Ocean Color Coordinating Group, webinar
Estuary and Ocean Science Center, San Francisco State University, Tiburon, CA
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
2018 UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory, Bodega Bay, CA
International Symposium on Understanding Changes in the Transitional Areas of the Pacific, La Paz, Mexico
Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR
2017 Gordon Research Conference on Coastal Ocean Dynamics, Biddeford, ME
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
2016 University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
US Clivar workshop on Forecasting ENSO Impacts on Marine Ecosystems of the US West Coast, La Jolla, CA
PISCO Annual Meeting, Santa Cruz, CA
2015 University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
2014 NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
2013 University of California, Berkeley, CA
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

Contributed Presentations

2019 PICES Annual Meeting, Victoria, Canada
2018 PICES Annual Meeting, Yokohama, Japan
Fourth International Symposium on the Effects of Climate Change on the World’s Oceans, Washington, D.C.
Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR
2017 PICES Annual Meeting, Vladivostok, Russia
2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, LA
2015 Eastern Pacific Ocean Conference, Fallen Leaf Lake, CA
Application of Seasonal to Decadal Climate Predictions for Marine Resource Management, Princeton, NJ
Third International Symposium on the Effects of Climate Change on the World’s Oceans, Santos, Brazil
2014 PICES Annual Meeting, Yeosu, Korea
Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI
2013 45th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics, Liège, Belgium
2012 American Geophysical Union Annual Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA
2011 Gordon Research Conference – Coastal Ocean Modeling, South Hadley, MA
2010 International Meeting of Students in Physical Oceanography, Seattle, WA
Learning from Inquiry in Practice, Santa Cruz, CA
2009 Eastern Pacific Ocean Conference, Victoria, BC, Canada

Service

2019-2020 Co-chair, NOAA Climate and Fisheries Initiative Expert Team
2017-2020 Co-chair, PICES Working Group 40 – Climate and Ecosystem Predictability
2017-2020 Co-chair, NOAA Marine Prediction Task Force
2018-2020 Member, CLIVAR Research Focus Group on Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems
2018 Session Co-chair, International Symposium on the Effects of Climate Change on the World’s Oceans, Washington, D.C.
2018 Session Co-chair, Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR.
2016 Conference Co-chair, Eastern Pacific Ocean Conference, Mt. Hood, OR.
2016 Session Co-chair, Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
2015 Session Co-chair, Eastern Pacific Ocean Conference, Fallen Leaf Lake, CA.
Journal Reviewer Environmental Science and Technology, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, Journal of Physical Oceanography, Nature Geoscience, Ocean Modelling, Ocean Science, Oceanography, PLOS ONE, Progress in Oceanography, Remote Sensing, Scientific Reports
Proposal Reviewer NERC (UK), Swiss National Supercomputing Center

Field Experience

2011 Monterey Bay 2011 (3 cruises; UCSC; R/V John Martin)
2010 Monterey Bay 2010 (UCSC; R/V John Martin)
2009 Monterey Bay 2009 (4 cruises; UCSC; R/V John Martin)
2008 Monterey Bay 2008 (6 cruises; UCSC; R/V John Martin)
2005-2008 Monthly Cruises (MBARI, R/V Point Lobos; collaboration with F. Chavez)
2007 Unmanned surface vehicle development, Palmetto, FL
2006-2007 Chief scientist, robotic instrument deployments, Monterey Bay (12 cruises, R/V Sheila B)
2006 Airborne CO2 flux measurement (Purdue University, collaboration with P. Shepson)
2006 Unmanned airborne CO2 monitor deployment, Quincy, WA

Certificates

2012 Teaching Innovative Laboratory Experiences, UC Santa Cruz Institute for Scientist and Engineer Educators
2011 Introductory Research Commercialization, National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer