The new SSG members

The CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group (SSG) has oversight over the implementation of CLIVAR and reports to the Joint Scientific Committee (JSC) of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). Memberships on the SSG are rotated every 2 - 5 years, which consequently makes the SSG group a relatively dynamic group of scientists.

This year CLIVAR would like to welcome 4 new members to the SSG panel and the appointmet of a new SSG co-chair.

Dr. Annalisa Bracco
 
Annalisa is a new CLIVAR SSG member. She received her PhD in Geophysics and Oceanography from the University of Genoa in 2000. From 2000 – 2002 she worked at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as a postdoctoral scholar before moving to the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste for 3 years. In 2005 she returned to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute for a year to work as an assistant scientist in a tenure track position before taking up her current position in 2006 as Assistant Professor in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Her current interests include geostrophic turbulence and vertical mixing in the ocean, tropical climate dynamics and marine ecosystem dynamics at the ocean mesoscale.

Dr. Ed Hawkins
 
Ed is a new member of the CLIVAR SSG. He currently works as a climate scientist in the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) Climate group at the University of Reading, UK and is principal investigator the Arctic predictability project, APPOSITE. He is also part of the UK NERC RAPID-WATCH RAPIT programme and EQUIP project. His current research interests include decadal variability and predictability of climate and quantification of the uncertainty in climate predictions and impacts. Ed is also involved with public, media and outreach projects, including a blog, which promotes collaboration and understanding of the climate science.
 
Dr. Lisa Goddard
 
Lisa is the new co-Chair of the SSG. She received her PhD in Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences from Princeton University in 1995. She spent five years at Scripps Institute of Oceanography and in 2000 moved to the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) at Columbia University, New York. She became its Director in 2012, From 2010 to present she has been Chair of the US CLIVAR Scientific Steering Committee. Her interests span interannual to decadal predictability, water resources in the Caribbean, and the climate of southeastern South America.

Dr.  Pedro M.S. Monteiro
 
Pedro is also part of the CLIVAR SSG team. Currently based at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa, he works as a principal oceanographer. His current activities and research interests include, understanding the coupled earth climate system in the Southern Ocean; understanding and modeling the incidence and variability of oxygen in shelf and oceanic systems and; using models and data to understand the biophysical processes starting and sustaining phytoplankton production and how they influence surface ocean carbon variability. Pedro also initiated and currently heads the Southern Ocean Carbon Climate Observatory Programme

Prof. Lixin Wu
 
Lixin is a new CLIVAR SSG member. He received his PhD from Beijing University in China. He did a postdoc at Rutgers University and in 1995 he moved to the Center for Climatic Research of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he stayed until 2005. In that year, he became Director of the Physical Oceanography Laboratory, Ocean University of China. His main interests are on modeling the global climate system, large-scale ocean-atmosphere interaction, and decadal climate variability. Until last year, he was a member of the CLIVAR Pacific Panel.