Stephen C. Riser: Former PhD Students
Former PhD Students

Susan Lozier, PhD 1989. Dissertation: Lagrangian Signatures of Potential Vorticity in a Quasigeostrophic Ocean. First position after graduation: Postdoctoral Scholar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Present position: Dean, School of Science, Georgia Tech University; President Emeritus of the American Geophysical Union.




Susan Hautala, PhD 1992. Dissertation: Modeling and Observations of Deep Circulation in the Eastern South Pacific Ocean. First position after graduation: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Present position: Associate Professor, School of Oceanography, University of Washington.





Deborah Lebel, PhD 2001. Dissertation: Inverse Models for Mass, Heat, and Salt for the western North Pacific. First position after graduation: Postdoctoral Researcher, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University. Present position: Research Associate, Earth Institute, Columbia University.




Young-Oh Kwon, PhD 2003. Dissertation: Observations of the General Circulation and Water Mass Variability in the North Atlantic Subtropical Mode Water Region. First position after graduation: Postdoctoral Researcher, National Center for Atmospheric Research. Present position: Senior Scientist and Department Chair, Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.



Li Ren, PhD 2008. Dissertation: Decadal-scale Changes in Heat and Freshwater Content of the Subtropical North Pacific Ocean. First position after graduation: Postdoctoral Researcher, Florida State University. Present position: Assistant Professor, University of Maryland.




Alison Gray, PhD 2014. Dissertation: Estimates of the Large-Scale Circulation of the Ocean Inferred from Argo Floats. First position after graduation: NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University. Present position: Assistant Professor, University of Washington.




Tyler Hennon, PhD 2016. Dissertation: Observing Physical-Biogeochemical Interactions in the Oceanic Carbon Cycle Using Argo Float Data. First position after graduation: Postdoctoral Researcher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Present position: Assistant Professor, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks.





Jesse Anderson, PhD 2017. Dissertation: Observing the Upper Ocean Cycle of Freshwater and Rainfall from Profiling Floats. First position after graduation: Postdoctoral Researcher, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Present position: Resesarch Scientist, Earth and Space Research, Seattle (a nonprofit research institution).




Earle Wilson, PhD 2019. Dissertation: Ocean, Atmosphere, and Ice Interactions in the Southern Ocean. First position after graduation: Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology. Present position: Assistant Professor, Stanford University.




Rosalind Echols, PhD 2022. Dissertation: The Impact of Freshwater and Phytoplankton on Mixed-layer Heating. First position after graduation: Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences, University of Washington.

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