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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |