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Lynne Talley
Born (1954-05-18) May 18, 1954 (age 70)
Schenectady, New York
NationalityUnited States
Alma materMarple-Newtown High School (1971)

BA Physics, Oberlin College (1976) Bachelor of Music, Oberlin College (1977) San Diego State University

PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1982)
AwardsHuntsman Award (2003)
Scientific career
FieldsOceanography
InstitutionsScripps Institution of Oceanography
Websitescrippsscholars.ucsd.edu/ltalley

Lynne Talley (born May 18, 1954) is an American physical oceanographer. A professor of physical oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography,[1] she has served as chief scientist on research ships, where she collected oceanographic hydrography data. She has participated in international steering groups and oversight committees for collection and use of oceanographic data.[2] Talley is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, The Oceanography Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Early life and education

Talley was born May 18, 1954 in Schenectady, New York. She attended Marple-Newtown High School, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1971.

She received a B.A. in physics in 1976 from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio and a Bachelor of Music (B.M.) in piano performance from Oberlin Conservatory of Music. The following year, she studied piano performance with Carl Seeman at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in Freiburg, Germany. She continued her studies at the New England Conservatory of Music. After moving to San Diego, she studied music at San Diego State University.

In 1982, Talley completed a Ph.D. in physical oceanography from the Joint Program in Oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. After a postdoctoral research position at Oregon State University, she joined the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1984.

Career and impact

Talley has worked at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego since 1984, where she has been a distinguished professor since 2012. While at Scripps, her research has combined analysis of ocean observations with advanced theoretical work to describe and map large-scale circulation. Talley's research focuses on the general circulation of the ocean and the role of oceanic and atmospheric conditions that affect ocean currents and property distributions, including salinity.[3] Her work involves analysis of data from most of the world's oceans, depicting the movement of heat, salinity, and water masses, and the formation of water masses, particularly in subpolar regions.[2]

From 2004 to 2007 she was a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) Working Group and a lead author of the Fourth Assessment Report Working Group I chapter of the group's final report titled: "Observations: Oceanic Climate Change and Sea Level",[4][5] which was released in February 2007. The report earned contributing scientists a share of the Nobel Peace Prize later that year.[6] She was also a lead author on the same topic for the Fifth Assessment Report.

In addition to academic publications, she has published a graduate level textbook on descriptive physical oceanography, and two oceanographic atlases.[7][8] Her research and international/national committee work include a focus on ocean climate variability/change. She has played a leadership role in scientific planning and execution of international programs, including the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) of the 1990s and the CLIVAR/CO2 Repeat Hydrography Program of the 2000s to present.

In 2000, Talley and co-principal investigator, Daniel Rudnick, worked with moorings and hydrography on the collaborative Okhotsk Sea dense water formation project.[9] In 2005-2006, Talley spent time in the field using hydrography, CTD, and profiling floats to understand Antarctic Intermediate Water formation in the southeast Pacific.[10] Between 2005 and 2007, Talley also participated as part of the CLIMODE team on the CLIVAR Mode Water Dynamics Experiment (CLIMODE)].

In 2009, Talley spent time on sabbatical at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as a Visiting Scientist.[11] The following year she took sabbatical at the Universite de Grenoble Joseph Fourier for sciences, health, technologies.

Talley has a long history of seagoing experiences. As a graduate student in 1978 she joined the hydrography cruise through the Southwestern South Pacific aboard the R/V Knorr. Between 1993 and 1997, Talley returned to the R/V Knorr serving as chief scientist on three WOCE hydrography cruises in the Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Subpolar North Atlantic. She has sampled the Pacific and Atlantic waters as part of the WOCE Field Program aboard research vessels including the R/V T. Washington (1984, co-chief scientist; 1991, chief scientist), R/V T. Thompson (1985, chief scientist), R/V Oceanus (1988, co-chief scientist), and R/V Melville (1989, chief scientist).[12] In 1999, Talley served as chief scientist on the R/V Revelle sampling hydrography in the Sea of Japan and then again as co-chief scientist aboard the Khromov in 1999 and 2000.[13] In 2014, she served as chief scientist for the GO-SHIP hydrography, CTC, float deployment cruise in the southern Pacific aboard the R/V N.B. Palmer.

Since 2016, Talley has led the observation team of the SOCCOM project: Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling (SOCCOM),[14][15] which is deploying biogeochemical profiling Argo floats throughout the southern ocean south of 30S. Her research group is involved directly in float, hydrographic and satellite data analysis, interfacing with the Southern Ocean State Estimate and data-model comparisons. She also continues to act as co-chair to the steering committee of the ongoing U.S. GO-SHIP,[16] which organizes and carries out the U.S. component of the international GO-SHIP program of deep-sea hydrographic cruises throughout the world's oceans.

Honors

References

  1. ^ "Tsunami May Have Carried Some Permanently to Sea". ABC News. December 30, 2004. Retrieved 2009-09-18.
  2. ^ a b "For Better or Worse, Modern Ocean Explorers Stay Connected". LiveScience. February 1, 2008. Retrieved September 18, 2009.
  3. ^ "L. Talley". Research Profiles. Retrieved May 16, 2016.
  4. ^ "Global Climate Report Shaped by Local Hands". Voice of San Diego. January 18, 2007. Archived from the original on June 11, 2009. Retrieved September 18, 2009.
  5. ^ "Chapter 5: Observations: Oceanic Climate Change and Sea Level - AR4 WGI". www.ipcc.ch. Retrieved June 26, 2016.
  6. ^ "The Nobel Peace Prize 2007". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved May 17, 2016.
  7. ^ Swift, Lynne D. Talley, George L. Pickard, William J. Emery, James H. (2011). Descriptive Physical Oceanography: An Introduction (6th ed.). Amsterdam: Academic Press. ISBN 9780750645522.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ Hydrographic Atlas of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) (PDF). Vol. 2: Pacific Ocean.
  9. ^ "Dense Water Formation in the Okhotsk Sea".
  10. ^ "Process study of Antarctic Intermediate Water formation". www-pord.ucsd.edu. Retrieved June 26, 2016.
  11. ^ "Tickling the Ivories and Tackling the Pacific". Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. March 1, 2000. Retrieved May 16, 2016.
  12. ^ "Curriculum Vitae: L. D. Talley". sam.ucsd.edu. Retrieved May 27, 2016.
  13. ^ "R/V Roger Revelle". scripps.ucsd.edu. Scripps Institution of Oceanography. 2013-02-15. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
  14. ^ "Programs | SOCCOM". soccom.princeton.edu. Retrieved May 17, 2016.
  15. ^ "Talley | SOCCOM". soccom.princeton.edu. Retrieved May 17, 2016.
  16. ^ "US GO-SHIP Program". usgoship.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
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