The US AMOC Science Team is comprised of US investigators performing relevant research on AMOC as funded and designated by the four sponsoring agencies: NASA, NOAA, NSF, and DOE. The Science Team bears the responsibility of achieving the program objectives established in the 2007 program implementation plan. The Science Team meets annually and produces a year-end report to facilitate the dissemination of recent research results, identify gaps in measuring, understanding, and modeling of the AMOC and its impacts, and aid the coordination of efforts across agency-sponsored projects.
Task Teams are established to define near-term research priorities and enable collaborative activities to achieve each of the four US AMOC objectives. Science Team members are asked to serve on at least one of following Task Teams, based on relevance to their funded research.
Task Team 1: AMOC Observing System Implementation and Evaluation
Task Team 2: AMOC State, Variability, and Change
Task Team 3: AMOC Mechanisms and Predictability
Task Team 4: Climate Sensitivity to AMOC: Climate/Ecosystem Impacts
Membership on the US AMOC Science Team is open to funded US scientists working on AMOC-relevant research. Each fall, agency funding managers identify relevant funded projects and invite investigators from newly awarded projects to join the Science Team and relevant Task Team(s). Members are expected to participate in the annual AMOC science meetings (US or international) and contribute annual project progress reports to inform the annual Science Team Report. Membership continues for up to one year after the project funding ends, unless an individual wishes to rotate off earlier.
| US AMOC Science Team Members | |
| Gokhan Danabasoglu, chair | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| Magdalena Andres | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Molly Baringer | NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory |
| Nick Bates | Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences |
| Lisa Beal | University of Miami |
| Amy Bower | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Annalisa Bracco | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Grant Branstator | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| James Carton | University of Maryland |
| Paola Cessi | UCSD/Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| Ping Chang | Texas A&M University |
| Wei Cheng | NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Lab |
| Alan Condron | University of Massachusetts |
| Timothy DelSole | George Mason University |
| Tom Delworth | NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory |
| William Dewar | Florida State University |
| Shenfu Dong | University of Miami/NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory |
| Kathleen Donohue | University of Rhode Island |
| Charles Eriksen | University of Washington |
| Alexey Fedorov | Yale University |
| M. Femke de Jong | Duke University |
| Gustavo Goni | NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory |
| Ben Harden | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Patrick Heimbach | University of Texas at Austin |
| Chris Hill | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| James Holte | Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| Aixue Hu | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| Taka Ito | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Quentin Jamet | Florida State University |
| Bill Johns | University of Miami |
| Terry Joyce | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Kathryn Kelly | University of Washington |
| Jong Kim | Argonne National Lab |
| Who Kim | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| Yochanan Kushnir | Columbia University/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory |
| Young-Oh Kwon | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Felix Landerer | Caltech/NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Matthias Lankhorst | Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| Isabel LeBras | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Craig Lee | University of Washington |
| Sang Ki Lee | NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Lab |
| Tong Lee | Caltech/NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Chris Little | AER |
| Wei Liu | University of California, Riverside |
| W. Timothy Liu | Caltech/NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Zhengyu Liu | University of Wisconsin |
| Susan Lozier | Duke University |
| Chris Meinen | NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory |
| Vikram Mehta | Center for Research on the Changing Earth System |
| Peter Minnett | University of Miami |
| Rym Msadek | NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory |
| NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory | |
| Renellys Perez | NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory |
| Robert Pickart | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Rui Ponte | Atmospheric and Environmental Research |
| Peter Rhines | University of Washington |
| Irina Rypina | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Anastasia Romanou | Columbia University/NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies |
| Tony Rosati | NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory |
| Thomas Rossby | University of Rhode Island |
| Claudia Schmid | NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory |
| Andreas Schmittner | Oregon State University |
| Uwe Send | UCSD/Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| Bill Smethie | Columbia University |
| Michael Spall | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Fiamma Straneo | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Zoltan Szuts | University of Washington |
| Fillipos Tagklis | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Luanne Thompson | University of Washington |
| Mingfang Ting | Columbia University |
| John Toole | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Anastasios Tsonis | University of Wisconsin |
| Eli Tziperman | Harvard University |
| Wilbert Weijer | Los Alamos National Lab |
| Nico Wienders | Florida State University |
| Carl Wunsch | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Xiaobiao Xu | Florida State University |
| Xiao-Hai Yan | University of Delaware |
| Steve Yeager | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| Jianjun Yin | University of Arizona |
| Jiaxu Zhang | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Rong Zhang | NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory |
Funding for US CLIVAR provided by
