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Curriculum Vitae

Meghan F. Cronin

NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

Ocean Climate Research Division

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Seattle, WA 98115 USA

ph.: 206-***-****, fax: 206-***-****

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EDUCATION

Ph.D., May 1993, Physical Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI.

Advisor: Dr. D. R. Watts. Thesis: Eddy-mean flow interaction in the Gulf Stream at 68oW.

B.A., May 1986, Physics, Columbia University, New York City, New York.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Oceanographer, GS-15 (Sep. 2007 - Present), GS-14 (Dec. 2001 - Sep. 2007), GS-13 (May

1995 - Dec. 2001), Ocean Climate Research Division, Pacific Marine Environmental

Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Affiliate Professor (Jul. 2008 - present

),

Affiliate Associate Professor (Jul. 2002 -

Jun. 2008), Affiliate Assitant Professor (Jun. 1998 - Jul. 2002

), School of Oceanography,

U. of Washington.

Senior Fellow, Joint Institute for Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, U. of Washington,

July 2004 - Present.

Postdoctoral Fellow, UCAR NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.

Host:

Dr. M. McPhaden, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle WA. Mar. 1993

- Apr. 1995

.

Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Physical Oceanography, University of Rhode

Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Sep. 1986 - Sep 1988, Sep 1989-Mar 1993

.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Physical Oceanography, University of Rhode

Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Sep. 1988 - Sep. 1989

.

Undergraduate Research Assitant,

Department of Physical Oceanography, University of Rhode

Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Summer 1984, Summer 1985

.

Intern, United Nations, Office of Law of the Sea, Spring 1985

.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Invited Speaker, Japan Geoscience Union Meeting, Chiba-city, Japan, 23 May 2012.

Keynote Speaker, University of Washington School of Oceanography Graduate Student

"Toaster" Retreat, Friday Harbor Laboratory, February 5, 2011.

Invited Participant, National Academy of Science, Ocean Studies Board, Workshop on

Oceanography in 2025, January 2009.

Invited Speaker, AGU meeting, SF, CA, 16 Dec 2008, Special Session on the Formation,

Evolution and Impact of Mode Water.

Invited Speaker, Celebration of the Postdoctoral Fellowship 100th Appointment, UCAR NOAA

C&GC Program, April 20-21, 2005

NOAA/PMEL Outstanding Scientific Paper Award, 1998, 2007, 2010.

UCAR NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow, NOAA/OGP 1993-1995

Outstanding Student Paper Award, ASLO Physical Oceanography Section, 1990

Outstanding Student Paper Award, AGU Oceanography Section, 1989

PANEL MEMBERSHIP

Member, OceanSITES Steering Team, 2009-present.

Member, SCOR Working Group 136 on the Climatic Importance of the Greater Agulhas System,

2009-present.

Member, U.S. CLIVAR Working Group on Western Boundary Current Ocean-Atmosphere

Interaction, 2006-2009.

Member, U.S. CLIVAR Committee, 2005-2008.

Co-Chair, U.S. CLIVAR Process Studies and Model Improvement Panel, 2005-2008.

Member, NOAA Climate Prediction Program for the Americas (CPPA) Advisory Panel, 2005

Member, Committee of Visitors to review NSF Ocean Science Division, June 2003

Co-Chair, U.S. CLIVAR Pan American Sector Implementation Panel, 2003-2005; Member, 2000-

2003.

Member, EPIC2001 Science Working Group, 2000-2005.

Member COARE Surface Meteorological Center Scientific Advisory Group, 1995-1998

Alternate Member, NSF Observing Facilities Advisory Panel, 1995

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES

Convenor, PACS PI meeting and EPIC Workshop, Boulder CO, Sep 2003

Convenor, EPIC Workshop, PMEL, Seattle WA, Mar 2002

Chair, "Pan American Observing System" session, PACS PI meeting, Maryland, Sep 2000

Convenor, EPIC2001 Planning Meeting, Seattle WA, Dec 1999

Convenor, COARE Ocean Group meeting, PMEL Seattle, WA, 1996

Facilitator, Hayes Center Reading Group, 1995-2001

Reviewer, over 100 journal articles (JPO, JCL, JGR-Oceans, JGR-Atmos, DSR, JO, GRL, BAMS,

BJO, MWR, JTECH, DAO, NCLIM), 1 book, 7 science and implementation plans (U.S. CLIVAR,

NSF, CSIRO MNF), and more than 70 proposals (NOAA, NSF OCE, NSF ATM-AGS (CLD, PDM), NSF

CMG, NASA)

Member, American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, Japanese Geosciences

Union.

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

NOAA Adopt-A-Drifter program, mentor for 4th (Ms. Towler) and 5th (Mr. Arango) grade

students at Bryant Elementary School, Seattle WA.

MPOWIR Intern Mentor for Ms. Jennifer Ayers, Duke University. Summer 2010.

Math coach, Bryant 5th graders team 5, in preparation for WA State Math Championship held

18 April 2010.

Doctoral committee for Mr. Noel Pelland, School of Oceanography, University of

Washington.

Masters committee for Ms. Caroline Harbitz, School of Oceanography, University of

Washington.

Masters committee for Ms. Jessica Anderson, School of Oceanography, University of

Washington.

Doctoral committee (PhD 2008) for Dr. ChuanLi Jiang, School of Oceanography, University

of Washington.

Doctoral committee (PhD 2007) for Dr. John Mickett, School of Oceanography, University of

Washington.

Doctoral committee (PhD 2006) for Dr. Hemerson Tonin. School of Chemistry, Physics and

Earth Sciences, Flinders University, Australia.

Masters committee (M.S. 2004) for Ms. ChuanLi Jiang, School of Oceanography, University

of Washington.

Masters advisor (M.S. 2004) for Ms. Rachel Wade, School of Oceanography, University of

Washington.

MOORINGS

Meghan Cronin leads the Ocean Climate Stations program at NOAA PMEL. Ocean Climate

Stations are moored buoys that carry a suite of sensors to monitor important climate

processes. PMEL's Ocean Climate Stations are part of the global network of OceanSITES

(http://www.oceansites.org) time series reference sites. http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/OCS/.

ARC, a surface mooring at 30oE, 38.5oS, equatorward of the Agulhas Return Current.

Initial funding from a RAPID NSF grant, NOAA CPO funding pending. Deployed 30 Nov 2010.

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/OCS/ARC

Station Papa, a surface mooring at 145oW, 50oN for the North Pacific Carbon Cycle

project, initially funded by NSF Carbon and Water in the Earth System to Drs. S. Emerson,

P. Quay, and C. Erikson (all at UW), June 2007 - June 2009. Funded by NOAA Office of

Climate Observations Program, June 2009 - ongoing. http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/stnP/.

J-KEO, a KEO mooring north of the Kuroshio Extension at 146o 30'E, 37o 53'N, funded by

JAMSTEC to Dr. Hiroshi Ichikawa (JAMSTEC), Phase 1: Feb 2007 - Feb 2008.

http://www.jamstec.go.jp/iorgc/ocorp/ktsfg/data/jkeo/.

KEO Kuroshio Extension Observatory, a time series reference site surface mooring at

144.5oE, 32.3oN, funded by NOAA Climate Programs Office, Office of Climate Observations

Program, June 2004 - ongoing. http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/keo/.

TAO/EPIC Enhancements to TAO array along 95oW for the Eastern Pacific Investigation of

Climate Processes, funded by NOAA OGP PanAmerican Climate Studies Program, Nov 1999 - Nov

2003. http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/epic/.

CRUISES

R/V Revelle, May 26 - June 14 2005, KESS (KEO turnaround as piggy back project), Chief

Scientists: S. Jayne and N. Hogg.

NOAA Ship Ka'imimoana, Mar 23 - Apr 23 1997, TAO / PACS GP2-97-K, Chief Scientist: M.

Cronin.

R/V Endeavor, Aug 4- Sep 5 1990, SYNOP, Chief Scientist: D. R. Watts

R/V Oceanus,

Aug 8-19 1989, SYNOP, Chief Scientist: D. R. Watts

R/V Oceanus,

May 20-June 2 1988, SYNOP, Chief Scientist: D. R. Watts

R/V Endeavor,

May 7-21 1985, Gulf Stream Dynamics Experiment, Chief Scientist: D. R.

Watts

R/V Endeavor,

June 1-18 1984, Gulf Stream Dynamics Experiment,

Chief Scientist: D. R.

Watts

PUBLICATIONS (PEERED-REVIEWED)

Phys. Oceanogr., 42(6), doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-11-092.1, 889 909, 2012.

Cronin, M. F., R. A. Weller, R. S. Lampitt, and U. Send. Ocean reference stations. In

Earth Observation, R.B. Rustamov and S.E. Salahova (eds.), InTech, ISBN: 978-***-***-***-

8. 2012. Available from: http://www.intechopen.com/books/earth-observation/ocean-reference-

stations

Emerson, S., C. Sabine, M. F. Cronin, R. Feely, S. Cullison, and M. DeGrandpre.

Quantifying the flux of CaCO2 and organic carbon from the surface ocean using in situ

measurements of O2, N2, pCO2 and pH. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 25, GB3008, doi:

10.1029/2010GB003924, 12 pp., 2011.

Beal, L., W. de Ruijter, A. Biastoch, R. Zahn, and members of SCOR/WCRP/IAPSO Working

Group 136. On the role of the Agulhas system in global climate. Nature, 472, 429-436,

doi:10.1038/nature09983, 2011.

Bond, N. A., M. F. Cronin, C. Sabine, Y. Kawai, H. Ichikawa, P. Freitag, and K. Ronnholm.

Upper-ocean response to tyhpoon Choi-Wan as measured by the Kuroshio Extension Observatory

(KEO) mooring. J. Geophys. Res., 116, C02031, doi: 10.1029/2010JC006548, 8 pp., 2011.

Tomita, H., S. Kako, M. F. Cronin, M. Kubota. Pre-conditioning of the winter-time mixed

layer at the Kuroshio Extension Observatory. J.Geophys. Res., 115, C12053,

doi:10.1029/2010JC006373, 2010.

Niu, X., R. T. Pinker, H. Wang, M. F. Cronin. Radiative fluxes at high latitudes.

Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L20811, doi:10.1029/2010GL044606, 2010.

Kelly, K. A., R. J. Small, R. M. Samelson, B. Qiu, T. Joyce, Y.-O. Kwon, and M. F.

Cronin. Western boundary currents and frontal air-sea interaction: Gulf Stream and

Kuroshio Extension. J. Climate, 23, 5644-5667, 2010.

Konda, M., H. Ichikawa, H. Tomita, M. F. Cronin. Surface heat flux variations across the

Kuroshio Extension as observed by surface flux buoys. J. Climate, 23, 5206-5221, 2010.

Perez, R. C., M. F. Cronin, and W. S. Kessler. Tropical cells and secondary circulation

near the northern front of the equatorial Pacific cold tongue. J. Phys. Oceanogr.,

40,doi:10.1175/2010JPO4366.1, 2091-2106, 2010.

Bond, N. A., M. F. Cronin, and M. Garvert. Atmospheric sensitivity to SST near the

Kuroshio Extension during the extratropical transition of Typhoon Tokage. Mon. Weather

Rev., 138, 2644-2663, 2010.

W. Ph.D. Dissertation.

University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, 1993.

Cronin, M., K. Tracey, and D.R. Watts. Mooring motion correction of SYNOP Central Array

current meter data. GSO Technical Report Number 92-4, University of Rhode Island, 114 pp.,

1992.

Cronin, M. Useful data-products of the mooring motion correction scheme: The pseudo-IES

and the Brunt-Vaisala frequency. Synoptician, 3(4), 1992.

Cronin, M., K.L. Tracey, and D.R. Watts. The Gulf Stream dynamics experiment: IES data

report for the May 1985 to June 1986 deployment period. GSO Technical Report Number 87-1.

University of Rhode Island, 135 pp., May 1987.

Tracey, K.L., M. Cronin, and D.R. Watts. The Gulf Stream dynamics experiment. Inverted

echo sounder data report for the June 1984 to May 1985 deployment period. GSO Technical

Report Number 85-3. University of Rhode Island, 176 pp., December 1985.

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