Jennifer Mackinnon

American physical oceanographer

Jennifer Mackinnon

Born|

Jennifer Ann Mackinnon

(1973-09-16) September 16, 1973 (age 51)
Academic background
Alma mater|

* Swarthmore College
* University of Washington

Thesis| Coastal Recipes: Internal waves, turbulence and mixing on the New England continental shelf. (2002)
Doctoral advisor| Michael Gregg
Academic work
Discipline| Oceanography
Sub-discipline| Physical Oceanography
Institutions|

* Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Main interests|

* Physical Oceanography
* Internal Waves and Ocean Mixing
* Coastal Oceanography
* Sub-mesoscale instabilities
* Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions
* Applied Ocean Sciences

Jennifer Ann Mackinnon (born September 16, 1973) is an American physical oceanographer who has studied small-scale dynamical processes in oceans for more than 20 years.[1] These processes include internal waves and ocean mixing, turbulence, sub-mesoscale instabilities, and their complex interaction.[2] She is a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) of the University of California, San Diego.[1] Her research requires extensive fieldwork at sea to observe these processes.

## Early life and education

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Mackinnon graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Major in Physics) with distinction from Swarthmore College in June 1995.[3] In June 1999, she completed a Master of Science at the Department of Oceanography of the University of Washington.[3] She then carried out a PhD in the same department that she defended in June 2002.[3]

## Career and research

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After some postdoctoral research at SIO from October 2002 to December 2003,[3] she was secured an assistant research faculty position[3] before being appointed associate professor[3] and professor.[1] In 2019, she was appointed Associate Dean for Faculty Equity[4] at Scripps Institution for Oceanography

In 2021, she demonstrated with coworkers in a publication in Nature Communications that pockets of warm water from the Pacific Ocean are accelerating the melting of sea ice[5][6][7][8][9]

## Awards and recognition

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* 1991 – National Merit Finalist[3]
* 1999 – Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellowship at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution[3]
* 1997 – 2000 – National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship[3]
* 2011 – Scripps Graduate Teaching Award[3]
* 2014 – the AMS Nicholas Fofonoff Award[10] for "outstanding contributions to the understanding of internal mixing in the ocean, artfully synthesizing observations, theory, and numerical modeling."
* 2018 – UC San Diego Inclusive Excellence Award[11]

## References

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1. ^ a b c "JENNIFER MACKINNON". Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Retrieved August 24, 2022.
2. ^ Alford, Matthew H.; Peacock, Thomas; MacKinnon, Jennifer A. (April 29, 2015). "The formation and fate of internal waves in the South China Sea" (PDF). Nature. 521 (7550): 65–69\. Bibcode:2015Natur.521...65A. doi:10.1038/nature14399. PMID 25951285. S2CID 205243476.
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Dr. Jennifer MacKinnon". UCSD. Archived from the original on November 13, 2019. Retrieved August 24, 2022.
4. ^ "Our Team | Scripps Institution of Oceanography". scripps.ucsd.edu. Retrieved December 30, 2023.
5. ^ MacKinnon, Jennifer A. (April 23, 2021). "A warm jet in a cold ocean". Nature Communications. 12 (1): 2418. Bibcode:2021NatCo..12.2418M. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-22505-5. hdl:1912/27528. PMC 8065036. PMID 33893280. S2CID 233382188.
6. ^ Escovedo, Mario (April 23, 2021). "Scripps Institution of Oceanography researchers discover 'heat bombs' destroying Arctic ice". CBS8. Retrieved August 24, 2022.
7. ^ O'Malley, Isabella (May 17, 2021). ""Heat bombs" are destroying Arctic sea ice, oceanographers say". The Weather Network. Retrieved August 24, 2022.
8. ^ Somos, Christy (May 18, 2021). "'Heat bombs' of warm water are melting Arctic sea ice: study". CTV News. Retrieved August 24, 2022.
9. ^ "'Heat Bombs' in Arctic Ocean Speeding Melt of Sea Ice, Say Scripps Scientists". Times of San Diego. April 23, 2021. Retrieved August 24, 2022.
10. ^ "AMS Awards". American Meteorological Society. Retrieved December 30, 2023.
11. ^ "Inclusive Excellence Awards". blink.ucsd.edu. Retrieved December 30, 2023.

## External links

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* Faculty profile at SIO

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF
* WorldCat

National|

* United States

Academics|

* Mathematics Genealogy Project
* Google Scholar