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
Task Team 5: Paleo AMOC
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 |
| Santha Akella | NASA Goddard |
| Hussein Aluie | University of Rochester |
| Daniel Amrhein | University of Washington |
| 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 |
| Esther Brady | NCAR |
| Grant Branstator | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| Natalie Burls | George Mason University |
| Michele Buzzicotti | University of Rome Tor Vergata/University of Rochester |
| James Carton | University of Maryland |
| Renato Castelao | University of Georgia |
| Paola Cessi | UCSD/Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| Ping Chang | Texas A&M University |
| Ke Chen | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Wei Cheng | NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Lab |
| Amy Clement | University of Miami |
| Alan Condron | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| 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 |
| Michael Evans | University of Maryland |
| Alexey Fedorov | Yale University |
| Ichiro Fukumori | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Jake Gebbie | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Marlos Goes | NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory |
| Gustavo Goni | NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory |
| Eric Hackert | NASA Goddard |
| Thomas Haine | Johns Hopkins University |
| Ben Harden | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Patrick Heimbach | University of Texas at Austin |
| Chris Hill | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Sophia Hines | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| James Holte | Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| Aixue Hu | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| Taka Ito | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Alexandra Jahn | University of Colorado Boulder |
| Quentin Jamet | Florida State University |
| Malte Jansen | University of Chicago |
| Bill Johns | University of Miami |
| Terry Joyce | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Lloyd Keigwin | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Marion Kersalé | University of Miami/NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory |
| K. Halimeda Killbourne | University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences |
| 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 |
| Matthieu Le Hénaff | University of Miami/NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory |
| Isabel LeBras | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Craig Lee | University of Washington |
| Sang Ki Lee | NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Lab |
| 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 |
| David Lund | University of Connecticut |
| Patricia Medeiros | University of Georgia |
| Chris Meinen | NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory |
| Dimitris Menemenlis | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Carrie Morrill | University of Colorado/NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information |
| University of Texas at Austin | |
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | |
| NCAR | |
| 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 |
| Julie Richey | US Geological Survey |
| Irina Rypina | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Anastasia Romanou | Columbia University/NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies |
| Thomas Rossby | University of Rhode Island |
| Casey Saenger | University of Washington |
| Claudia Schmid | NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory |
| Matthew Schmidt | Old Dominion University |
| Andreas Schmittner | Oregon State University |
| Uwe Send | UCSD/Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| Bill Smethie | Columbia University |
| Aviv Solodoch | University of California - Los Angeles |
| Michael Spall | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Arthur Spivack | University of Rhode Island |
| Andrew Stewart | University of California - Los Angeles |
| Joseph Stoner | Oregon State University |
| Benjamin Storer | University of Rochester |
| 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 |
| Alan Wanamaker | Iowa State University |
| Wilbert Weijer | Los Alamos National Lab |
| Nico Wienders | Florida State University |
| Carl Wunsch | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Xiaobiao Xu | Florida State University |
| Denis Volkov | University of Miami/NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory |
| Xiao-Hai Yan | University of Delaware |
| Jiayan Yang | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Steve Yeager | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| Jianjun Yin | University of Arizona |
| Laure Zanna | New York University |
| Jiaxu Zhang | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Rong Zhang | NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory |
| Jian Zhao | University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science |
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