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Research Scientist
Staff Affiliation:
UW/CICOES
PMEL Division:
Ocean Environment
PMEL Project:
Arctic
Ecosystem & Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations
ORCID:
Jiaxu Zhang is a research scientist of physical oceanography at UW/CICOES and NOAA/PMEL. Her current work focuses specifically on Arctic freshwater content and its distribution, Beaufort Gyre dynamics, and Arctic-Atlantic/Arctic-Pacific interactions. She finished her 3-year work at Los Alamos National Lab in February 2020 before the current position. She got her PhD from U. Wisconsin-Madison in 2016, and was working on paleoclimate modeling of the last deglaciation. Paleoclimate and biogeochemical tracers will continue to be her research interest.