Meghan F Cronin

There is a growing database of observations in the tropics and at higher latitudes that can be used to investigate air-sea interaction and upper ocean processes. I am lead PI on a Tropical Pacific Observing System (TPOS)-2020 project that will send 2 saildrone (www.saildrone.com) to the tropics to test this new innovative platform, a remotely-controlled sailboat, and its ability to make climate quality surface meteorological, oceanic, and biogeochemical measurements. The first mission will be to the NASA sponsored SPURS-2 study site. As a postdoc, you would be participating in SPURS-2 (http://spurs2.jpl.nasa.gov/) as well as TPOS-2020 (http://tpos2020.org/), using cutting edge technology. I also lead the NOAA PMEL Ocean Climate Stations program that maintains surface reference station moorings in key regions of the climate system (http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/ocs/). At present we have two moorings in the North Pacific – the Kuroshio Extension Observatory (KEO), which is in the western boundary current region where the ocean warms the atmosphere and subtropical mode water is formed; and Station Papa in the Gulf of Alaska, which is a region where the effects of ocean acidification are expected to manifest. These moorings were both initiated during process studies and thus are part of a larger data set that place these observations within the mesoscale and large-scale context. Their data can be used in a variety of analyses investigating processes on diurnal-interannual and longer time scales.