April 2008
JULIE DAVIS PULLEN
tel: +1-650-269-9394
e-mail: julie@theworldisyourocean.net
website: www.theworldisyourocean.net
OVERVIEW:
Dr. Julie Pullen is an oceanographer and meteorologist in the Marine
Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, studying air-sea interactions
in coastal regions and their impact on plumes of chemical, biological and
radiological (CBR) contaminants in cities. She uses high-resolution coupled
ocean-atmosphere modeling to synthesize inputs from international,
multi-disciplinary research teams in order to understand the dynamics of
coastal regions throughout the world. Most recently she was named to a
scientific steering committee conducting modeling and measurements (including
six oceanographic research cruises) focused on the
Dr. Pullen pioneered the two-way coupling of a high-resolution mesoscale atmosphere and ocean model for realistic applications in the coastal zone and published several research articles detailing the superior forecasts of both realms that resulted from coupling the models. This work formed the foundation and motivation for the transition of a state-of-the-art, high-resolution, globally relocatable coupled ocean, atmosphere, and wave model into operational use for diverse applications such as mission planning by the Navy SEALs. Dr. Pullen helps coordinate and oversee the transition.
She was a principal investigator on a Department of Homeland Security grant
to improve prediction of CBR dispersion in
As the chair of the Coastal Environment Committee of the American Meteorological Society, she was lead organizer of the 7th Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes that met jointly with the 7th Symposium on the Urban Environment at her initiative. She is co-chair of the upcoming 2010 Ocean Sciences meeting.
Dr. Pullen was a science fellow at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation where she was a member of the external evaluation committee for the national Top Officials 2 Full Scale Exercise (TOPOFF-2). She was the first undergraduate intern at the Santa Fe Institute.
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Physical Oceanography,
M.S., Applied Mathematics,
B.A., Physics and Mathematics,
current Position:
Oceanographer and Meteorologist, Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey CA, 2003-ongoing
Previous Positions:
Science Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, 2002-2003
Postdoctoral Researcher, Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey CA, 2000-2002
LEADERSHIP and PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
National and International Committees/ Boards:
Co-chair, 2010 Ocean Sciences meeting committee, 2008-ongoing
Member, validation test panel for transition of Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model to Navy operations, 2008-ongoing
Chair, Committee on the Coastal Environment, American Meteorological Society, 2005-2007
Co-chair, 7th Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, San Diego, CA (joint with the 7th Symposium on the Urban Environment), 10-13 September 2007
Member, Scientific Steering Committee, Philippines Straits Dynamics Experiment, 2007-ongoing
Member, Gordon
Research Conference steering committee for the Coastal Ocean Modeling conference,
Science co-lead on Navy Rapid Transition Project “Coupled Modeling Initiative” to demonstrate and deliver a globally relocatable coupled ocean/atmosphere/wave modeling and data assimilation system to the Navy SEALs’ Mission Support Center, 2005-2007
Member,
management team for the Department of Homeland Security Urban Dispersion
Program tracer release field experiment in midtown
Member, external evaluation committee for Top Officials 2 Full Scale Exercise (TOPOFF-2 simulated radiological and biological releases in Chicago and Seattle to test federal, state and local agency preparedness). Major contributor to the final report submitted to the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State: Chyba, C., M. F. Cuellar, L. Donohue, L. Eden, M. Lynn, M. May, E. Pate-Cornell, J. Pullen, T. Putnam, M. Race, and A. Stuart, Final Report: Top Officials 2 Full Scale Exercise, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, June 2003
Editorial:
Reviewer for: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; Monthly Weather Review; Continental Shelf Research; Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans; Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres; Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology; Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science; Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society; Annales Geophysicae, Journal of Marine Systems; Journal of Physical Oceanography
Reviewer for National Science Foundation proposals
Past Academic Committees:
Member, Ph.D.
committee for graduate student Antonio Martinho, oceanography department,
At College of
Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences,
Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1998-1999
Member, John Byrne Lecture Series Organizing Committee, 1997-1999
Member, Computer Committee, 1996-1997
Member, Student Advisory Committee, 1995-1996
Professional Societies:
International Association for Urban Climate, 2002-
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2000-
The Oceanography Society, 1998-
American Geophysical
American Meteorological Society, 1997-
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
Alan Berman Outstanding Research Publication Award, Naval Research Laboratory, 2003, 2007
Science Fellowship, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, 2002-2003
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education, Naval Research Laboratory, 2000-2002
Wayne V. Burt
Award for Academic Excellence, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences,
Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Arizona, 1991-1993
Physics
Department Achievement Award,
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:
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2006-2009 |
6.2 Office of Naval Research grant for air/sea coupled modeling in support of the Philippines Straits Dynamics Experiment
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2006-2007 |
Defense Threat Reduction Agency Joint Science and
Technology Office – Chemical and Biological Defense program grant
"Coupled Air-Sea Modeling for Improved Coastal Dispersion
Prediction" |
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2005-2008
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6.2
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2004-2007 |
Department of Homeland Security
Urban Dispersion Program grant for examining the impact of sea surface
temperature on sub-kilometer scale atmospheric prediction with application to
chemical and biological dispersion in
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2003-2007 |
6.1 Naval
Research Laboratory grant: “Air-Sea Coupling in the Coastal Zone” focused on the
role of air-sea interaction in sea surface temperature, cloud cover and
boundary layer dynamics off the coast of |
Publications:
Teddy Holt, Julie Pullen, and Craig Bishop, “Urban and ocean ensembles for improved meteorological
modeling of the coastal zone,” Tellus,
submitted, 2008.
Julie
Pullen, James Doyle, Paul May, Cedric Chavanne,
Pierre Flament, and Robert Arnone, “Eddy shedding in
the South China Sea triggered by monsoon surges,” Geophysical Research Letters, 35,
L07604, doi:10.1029/2007GL033109, 2008.
Julie Pullen, Jason Ching, David Sailor, William Thompson, Bob Bornstein, and Darko Koracin, “Summary and highlights of the AMS 7th Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes and 7th Symposium on the Urban Environment,” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, in press, 2008.
Tracy Haack, Dudley Chelton, Julie Pullen, James Doyle, and Michael Schlax, "Summertime influence of SST on surface wind stress off the U. S. West Coast from the U. S. Navy COAMPS model,” Journal of Physical Oceanography, in press, 2008.
Richard Signell, Jacopo Chiggiato, Jochen Horstmann, James Doyle, Julie Pullen, Farid Askari "High resolution mapping of bora winds in the Northern Adriatic Sea using synthetic aperture radar," Journal of Geophysical Research, submitted, 2008.
Richard Signell, Sandro Carniel, Jacopo Chiggiato, Ivica Janekovic, Julie Pullen, and Christopher Sherwood, "Collaboration tools and techniques for large model datasets," Journal of Marine Systems special issue on Marine Rapid Environmental Assessment, doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2007.02.013, 2007.
Julie Pullen, Teddy Holt, Alan
Blumberg and Bob Bornstein, “Atmospheric response to local upwelling in the
vicinity of
William Thompson, Teddy Holt, and Julie Pullen, “Investigation of a sea breeze front in an urban environment,” Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 133, 579-594, 2007.
Teddy Holt and Julie Pullen, “Urban canopy modeling
of the
Julie Pullen, James Doyle, Tracy Haack, Clive Dorman, Richard Signell and Craig Lee, "Bora event variability and the role of air-sea feedback," Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, C03S18, doi:10.1029/2006JC003726, 2007.
Clive Dorman, et al. "Winter 2003 Marine atmospheric conditions and the
bora over the northern
Julie Pullen and Michael LaBarbera, “Modes of feeding in aggregations of barnacles and the shape of aggregations,” Biological Bulletin, 181, 442-452, 1991.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS (INVITED):
“High-resolution Air-Sea Modeling for Short-term
Forecasting,”
"Coastal Modeling of Upwelling Regimes," in
"Coastal Upwelling: Coevolution of Physical,
Chemical, and Biological Theory and Practices" session, Ocean Sciences
Meeting,
"Two-Way Air-Sea Coupling: A Study of the
Adriatic,"
"Two-Way Air-Sea Coupling: A Study of the Adriatic," High-Resolution Coupled Coastal Prediction Workshop, NATO Undersea Research Centre, La Spezia, Italy, December 2005
“High-Resolution Coastal Urban Plume Modeling for National
Security,” for special symposium "Nexus of Coastal and Urban
Environments,” American Meteorological Society Meeting,
“Can Agencies Coordinate Environmental Forecasts for
Homeland Security?” Center for International Security and Cooperation,
“Ocean-Atmosphere Nested Modeling of the Adriatic Sea
during Winter and Spring 2001,” Department of Civil
and Environmental Engineering,
“Coupled Air-Ocean simulations of the Eastern
Mediterranean Sea,” Aegean Sea Workshop,
“Coupled Air-Ocean Nested Modeling Studies of the Adriatic
Sea,” Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et
Océanographie Spatiales,
“A High-Resolution Data-Assimilating Forecast System
for the Mediterranean Sea,” NATO Undersea
“Modeling Studies of the Coastal Circulation off Northern
California,”
“Modeling Studies of the Coastal Circulation off Northern
California,”
OTHER SELECTED ORAL PRESENTATIONS:
“Air-Sea Dynamics during the
“High-resolution Air-Sea Modeling of the Philippines Winter Monsoon,” 7th Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, American Meteorological Society Meeting, San Diego, CA, September 2007 (also plenary session chair)
“High-resolution Air-Sea Modeling of the
"High-Resolution Modeling for NYC: Coastal Ocean and
Urbanization Effects," 6th Symposium on the Urban Environment, American
Meteorological Society Meeting,
“Linked Mesoscale-LES Contaminant Prediction for
“Adriatic Air-Sea Coupling,” The Oceanography Society’s
International Ocean Research Conference, The Intergovernmental Oceanographic
Commission (UNESCO),
"Adriatic Air-Sea Coupling," 6th Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, American Meteorological Society Meeting, San Diego, CA, January 2005 (also session chair)
"Air-Sea Interaction in the Adriatic Sea," Ocean
Sciences Meeting,
“Comparison Studies of Plume Morphology using a Puff Model and an Urban High-Resolution Model,” Seventh Annual George Mason University Conference on Transport and Dispersion Modeling, Fairfax, VA, June 2003
“Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Nested Modeling of the
“Ocean-Atmosphere High-Resolution Modeling of the Adriatic
Sea during Winter and Spring 2001,” EGS/AGU/EUG Joint
Assembly,
“Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Nested Modeling of the Adriatic
Sea during Winter and Spring 2001,” School of
Oceanography,
“High Resolution Data Assimilation and Prediction of the
Atmosphere and Ocean in the Mediterranean,” EuroGOOS Meeting,
“Coupled Air-Ocean Nested Modeling Studies of the Adriatic
Sea,” Adriatic Field Trials Planning Meeting, NATO Undersea
“Nested Modeling Studies of the Adriatic Sea,” American
Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences Meeting,
“Nested Modeling Studies of the Adriatic Sea,” American Meteorological Society Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, St. Petersburg, FL, November 2001 (also member of program committee and session chair)
“A Navy High-Resolution Data-Assimilating Forecast System
for the Mediterranean Sea,” European Geophysical Society, Nice,
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
OC 331 “Introduction to Oceanography” Sole instructor of three-week
physical oceanography section of junior/senior level undergraduate course at
OC 430/530
“Principles of Physical Oceanography” Teaching assistant for graduate course at
SUPERCOMPUTER EXPERIENCE:
ADDITIONAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
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2008 |
Philippines Straits Dynamics Experiment on the R/V Melville (22 January – 1 February); supplied guidance using ocean and atmosphere regional operational forecasts Chief Scientist:
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1999 |
Strata Formation on Margins
( Chief Scientist: Andrea Ogston,
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1996 |
Santa Barbara Channel - Chief Scientist: Myrl Hendershott, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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1993 |
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Summer graduate research assistant on a long-term
simulation of the Supervisors: Robert Malone and Sumner Dean |
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1992 |
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Summer graduate research assistant in the area of computational fluid dynamics Supervisor: Mac Hyman
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1990 |
Howard Hughes Biomedical Research Trust Grant Organismal Biology Department, Summer research position involved studying the interaction of barnacle feeding with the flow environment Supervisor: Michael LaBarbera
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1990 |
First undergraduate intern at the Santa Fe Institute Internship entailed studies in mathematical biology Supervisor: Stuart Kauffman
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1989 |
Pew Midstates Science and Math Consortium Grant Physics Department, Summer research position involved the resurrection of a solar powered laser and quantification of lasing efficiency Supervisor: Roland Winston |
SPECIALIZED COURSES ATTENDED:
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2003 |
American Meteorological Society Summer Policy Colloquium, (a two week program to educate atmospheric scientists in science and technology policy)
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1993 |
Computational Science Workshop, Los Alamos National
Laboratory, (a two week program to instruct industrial and academic participants in parallel computation)
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1992 |
(a two week graduate/postdoctoral program sponsored by the Santa Fe Institute)
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1991 |
Comparative Invertebrate Embryology, (an intensive summer graduate course at the
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1990 |
Complex Systems Summer School, (a four week graduate/postdoctoral program sponsored by the Santa Fe Institute) |