US CLIVAR welcomes Sonya Legg as new chair of SSC

Sonya Legg received her PhD from Imperial College London in 1993 and a Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellowship from NOAA in 1995. Legg has been a member of the Princeton University Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences program faculty for 10 years, following several years at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Legg is currently the lead PI for MPOWIR (Mentoring Physical Oceanography Women to Increase Retention), a nation-wide mentoring effort. Legg’s research interests focus on turbulent mixing in the ocean, including tidal mixing and mixing in overflows, the representation of mixing processes in large-scale ocean models, and the impact of parameterized small-scale mixing on the large-scale ocean circulation and climate. Legg has participated in two US CLIVAR climate process teams, multi-institutional collaborations bringing together observationalists, modelers, and climate model developers, to better parameterize ocean processes.