Author name: Kristina Kiest

This article continues a series of interviews with NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO) employees and CPO-funded scientists in celebration of Women’s History Month.

LuAnn Dahlman is a core member of NOAA CPO’s Communication, Education, and Engagement Division (CEE) Division. In her role as writer, editor, and user advocate, LuAnn applies her knowledge and passion for accessible and understandable data to NOAA’s climate resilience resources such as the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit, Climate Mapping for Resilience Adaptation (CMRA) portal, and Climate Explorer.

This article highlights an interview with Juliana Dias, a research scientist in the Atmosphere-Ocean Processes and Predictability Division at NOAA’s Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL). Juliana’s research is focused on investigating the role of tropical-extratropical exchanges on climate variability and predictability.

This article highlights an interview with Dr. Samantha Wills, a research scientist at University of Washington Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystem Studies (CICOES) and NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL). She works in the NOAA Ocean Climate Stations group led by Dr. Meghan Cronin, and uses novel Saildrone uncrewed surface vehicles to collect observations over remote regions of the tropical Pacific Ocean. These observations allow her to study mesoscale air-sea variability associated with atmospheric cold pool phenomena over the tropical ocean.

This article highlights an interview with Vaishali Naik, a physical scientist at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL). Dr. Naik’s work focuses on developing and applying Global Earth System Models to study how atmospheric chemical composition, specifically short-lived gases and aerosols, interact with human-caused climate change.

 This article highlights an interview with Jasmin John, Deputy Director of the Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division at  NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML). 

This article highlights an interview with the NOAA Central Library Research Team, including Librarians Lisa Clarke, Hope Shinn, and Shannon Delaney, and Outreach Librarian Katie Poser.