CAROL ANNE CLAYSON

CAROL ANNE CLAYSON is Senior Scientist and Director for Research Strategies and Innovation at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, overseeing the WHOI strategies for research business development and innovation.

Dr. Clayson has been tenured faculty at Florida State University and Purdue University, and was also the former Director of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute. Her research covers the areas of air and sea interaction, satellite remote sensing, and ocean modeling. She is the recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award. She received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President W. Clinton. Dr. Clayson received her Ph.D. in aerospace engineering sciences from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Clayson has served as a member of the NationalAcademies’ Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate including the Committee on the Future of Rainfall Measuring Missions and the Committee to Review the NASA Earth Science Enterprise Strategic Plan and is currently a co-chair of the Climate Variability and Change: Seasonal to Centennial panel for the NASA Decadal Survey.

Carol Anne’s research interests include Exchanges of heat, moisture, and momentum between the ocean and the atmosphere. Turbulent boundary layers. Air-sea interaction. Remote sensing of the ocean and the near-surface atmosphere. Ocean and atmosphere modeling. Water cycle variability. Role of small-scale variability on climate scales.

Carol Anne’s long-standing area of interest in the development of appropriate SST fields for calculation of air-sea fluxes of heat, moisture, and momentum was a driving motivation for becoming involved with GHRSST. Being part of the GHRSST Community has benefitted Carol Anne with keeping on top of all the latest development in SST retrievals, as well as understanding from other science experts on diurnal warming and other aspects that affect SST retrievals.