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Dr.
Julie Pullen Stevens Institute of Technology 1 Castle Point on Hudson Hoboken, NJ 07030 |
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OVERVIEW:
Dr. Julie Pullen is Director of the Stevens-led Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) National Center of Excellence in Maritime Security. The Center examines basic science issues and
emerging technologies to improve the security of ports as well as coastal and
offshore operations. In her research
projects she employs ultra high-resolution coupled ocean-atmosphere modeling in
order to understand and forecast the dynamics of coastal urban regions
throughout the world. Her expertise encompasses study of the
Mediterranean, U.S. east and west coasts and Pacific island regions, with a
particular emphasis on predicting chemical, biological, and radiological (CBR)
dispersion in coastal cities in the event of a terrorist or accidental release.
She was a principal investigator on a Department of Homeland Security project to improve prediction of CBR dispersion in New York City by integrating multi-scale modeling of air, sea, and buildings. Additionally, Dr. Pullen was a member of the management team for the midtown Manhattan 2005 Urban Dispersion Program tracer release study, the largest of its kind in the U. S.
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 award-winning 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. She was named to an Office of Naval Research scientific steering committee to conduct modeling and measurements (including six oceanographic research cruises) focused on the Philippines. As part of that effort, she oversees and interprets operational ocean and atmosphere forecasts of the region for use in fieldwork planning, execution and analysis.
She was the co-chair of the 2010 Ocean Sciences meeting convened jointly by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), The Oceanography Society (TOS) and the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), drawing together ~5000 oceanographers worldwide. She also served as a member of the scientific committee of the 2nd International Waterside Security Conference. 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 at her initiative with the 7th Symposium on the Urban Environment.
Dr. Pullen is an adjunct research scientist and past Marie Tharp visiting fellow at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. She 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 also the first undergraduate intern at the Santa Fe Institute.
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Physical
Oceanography, Oregon State University, 2000
M.S., Applied
Mathematics, University of Arizona, 1993
B.A., Physics
and Mathematics, Macalester College, 1991
current Position:
Director,
DHS National Center of
Excellence in Maritime Security, Stevens
Institute of Technology, Hoboken NJ, 2011-ongoing
Research
Associate Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology,
Hoboken NJ, 2008-ongoing
Director,
Maritime Security Laboratory,
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken NJ,
2008-2011
Adjunct
Research Scientist, Lamont
Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York NY, 2009-ongoing
Previous Positions:
Visiting
Fellow, Earth
Institute, Columbia University, New York NY, 2008-2009
Oceanographer
and Meteorologist,
Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey CA, 2003-2008
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:
Member,
program committee, Gordon Research Conference on Coastal Ocean Modeling, 2011
Member,
program committee, 2nd International Waterside Security Conference, Italy, 2010
Co-chair,
2010 Ocean Sciences meeting committee, 2008-2010
Member, validation test panel
for transition of Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model to Navy operations, 2008-2010
Member, Committee on the Coastal
Environment, American Meteorological Society, 2007-2010
Chair,
Committee on the Coastal Environment, American Meteorological Society,
2005-2007
Co-chair, 7th Conference on
Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes (joint with the 7th
Symposium on the Urban Environment), 2006-2007
Member,
Scientific Steering Committee, Philippines Straits Dynamics Experiment,
2007-2010
Member, program committee,
Gordon Research Conference on Coastal Ocean Modeling, 2007
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 Manhattan, August 2005
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; Atmospheric Environment; Bulletin of the
American Meteorological Society; Annales Geophysicae; Atmospheric Research; Journal of Marine
Systems; Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society; Journal of
Physical Oceanography; Weather and Forecasting
Reviewer for National Science
Foundation and Department of Homeland Security grant proposals
Academic Committees:
Advisor, graduate student Talmor Meir, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2009-
Member, Ph.D. committee for
graduate student Antonio Martinho, oceanography
department, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, 2001-2003
At College of Oceanic and
Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University:
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 Union, 1997-
American Meteorological Society,
1997-
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
Marie Tharp
Visiting Fellowship, Earth Institute, Columbia University, 2008-2009
Alan Berman Outstanding Research
Publication Award (as lead author), 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, Oregon State
University, 1997
Graduate Research Fellowship,
University of Arizona, 1991-1993
Physics Department Achievement
Award, Macalester College, 1991
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:
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2010-2012 2010-2012 2010-2011 2009-2011 |
Department
of Homeland Security Science & Technology, Borders and Maritime applied
projects Stevens co-lead, NOAA Climate Program Office, “Consortium
for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast” – grant to assess combined sea
level rise and storm surge impacts Naval Research Laboratory grant “Evaluation of
Coastal/Urban COAMPS Predictions” Office of Naval Research grant “Ocean coupling to
topographically-enhanced atmospheric flow” for Coupled Processes Departmental
Research Initiative |
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2006-2009 |
6.2 Office of Naval Research grant for air/sea coupled
modeling for the Philippines Straits Dynamics Experiment (PhilEx) |
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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 |
6.2 National Ocean Partnership Program grant to develop superior
initial and lateral boundary conditions using global HYCOM ocean model fields
as input to high-resolution coastal models |
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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 New York City |
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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 California and in the Adriatic |
Publications:
(Available
at http://www.theworldisyourocean.net/papers/)
Julie Pullen, Arnold L. Gordon, Janet Sprintall, Craig M. Lee, Matthew A. Alford, James D. Doyle,
Paul W. May, “Atmospheric and oceanic processes in the vicinity of an
island strait,” Oceanography, 24(1),
112-121, 2011.
Paul
W. May, James D. Doyle, Julie Pullen,
and Laura David, “Two-way coupled atmosphere-ocean modeling of the PhilEx intensive observational period,” Oceanography, 24(1), 48-57, 2011.
Irina
Rypina, Larry Pratt, Julie Pullen, Julia Levin and Arnold Gordon, “Chaotic advection in
an archipelago,” Journal of Physical
Oceanography, 40(9), 1988-2006, 2010.
Richard
Signell, Jacopo Chiggiato, Jochen Horstmann, James Doyle, Julie
Pullen, and Farid Askari,
"High resolution mapping of Bora winds in the northern Adriatic Sea using
synthetic aperture radar," Journal of Geophysical Research, 115,
C04020, doi:10.1029/2009JC005524, 2010.
Teddy Holt, Julie Pullen, and Craig Bishop,
“Urban and ocean ensembles for improved meteorological and dispersion modeling
of the coastal zone,” Tellus, 61A, 232-249, 2009.
Julie Pullen, James Doyle, Paul May, Cedric Chavanne,
Pierre Flament, and Robert Arnone,
“Monsoon surges trigger oceanic eddy formation and propagation in the lee of
the Philippine Islands,” Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L07604, doi:10.1029/2007GL033109,
2008.
Julie
Pullen, Jason Ching, David Sailor, William Thompson, Bob Bornstein, and Darko Koracin, “Progress toward
meeting the challenges of our coastal urban future,” Bulletin of the
American Meteorological Society, 89 (11), 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,
38, 2414-2437, 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 New York/ New Jersey Harbor,” Journal of Applied
Meteorology and Climatology, 46, 1031-1052, 2007.
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 New York City
metropolitan area: A comparison and validation of single-layer and multi-layer
parameterizations,” Monthly Weather Review, 135, 1906-1930, 2007.
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 Adriatic," Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, CS03S03, doi:10.1029/2005JC003134, 2006.
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
Coastal/Urban Prediction for New York City,” Stony Brook University, Stony
Brook, NY, December 2009
“Monsoon
Surges and Oceanic Eddy Dynamics in the South China Sea,” Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory, Columbia University, New York, NY, November 2008
“High-resolution
Air-Sea Modeling for Short-term Forecasting,” Earth Simulator Center, Yokohama,
Japan, July 2007
"Coastal
Modeling of Upwelling Regimes," in "Coastal Upwelling: Coevolution of
Physical, Chemical, and Biological Theory and Practices" session, Ocean
Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI, February 2006
"Two-Way
Air-Sea Coupling: A Study of the Adriatic," Florida State University,
December 2005
"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, Seattle, WA, January 2004 (also a session chair and panelist)
“Can
Agencies Coordinate Environmental Forecasts for Homeland Security?” Center for
International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, February 2003
“Ocean-Atmosphere
Nested Modeling of the Adriatic Sea during Winter and
Spring 2001,” Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford
University, January 2003
“Coupled
Air-Ocean simulations of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea,” Aegean Sea Workshop,
Rhodes, Greece, October 2002
“Coupled
Air-Ocean Nested Modeling Studies of the Adriatic Sea,” Laboratoire
d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales, Toulouse, France, May 2002
“A
High-Resolution Data-Assimilating Forecast System for the Mediterranean Sea,”
NATO Undersea Research Center, La Spezia, Italy, June 2001
“Modeling
Studies of the Coastal Circulation off Northern California,” University of New
South Wales, Sydney, Australia, May 2000
“Modeling
Studies of the Coastal Circulation off Northern California,” Australian Defense
Force Academy, Canberra, Australia, April 2000
OTHER SELECTED ORAL PRESENTATIONS:
“Atmospheric
and oceanic processes in the vicinity of an island strait,” 9th Conference on
Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, Annapolis, MD,
September 2010 (also session chair)
“Meteorological
and Storm Surge Modeling for Emergency Response in NYC,” Coastal Cities Summit,
St. Petersburg, FL, November 2008 (also session moderator)
“Air-Sea
Dynamics during the Philippines Monsoon,” Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL,
February 2008
“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 Philippines Winter Monsoon,” 11th HYCOM Consortium
Meeting, Stennis Space Center, MS, April 2007
"High-Resolution
Modeling for NYC: Coastal Ocean and Urbanization Effects,” 6th Symposium on the
Urban Environment, American Meteorological Society Meeting, Atlanta, GA,
January 2006
“Linked
Mesoscale-LES Contaminant Prediction for Manhattan,”
9th Annual George Mason University, Conference on Transport and Dispersion
Modeling, Fairfax, VA, July 2005 (also session chair)
“Adriatic
Air-Sea Coupling,” The Oceanography Society’s International Ocean Research
Conference, The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (UNESCO), Paris,
France, June 2005
"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, Portland, OR,
January 2004 (also session chair)
“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 Adriatic Sea during Winter
and Spring 2001,” Center for Coastal Studies, Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
May 2003
“Ocean-Atmosphere
High-Resolution Modeling of the Adriatic Sea during Winter
and Spring 2001,” EGS/AGU/EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, France, April 2003 (also
session chair)
“Coupled
Ocean-Atmosphere Nested Modeling of the Adriatic Sea during Winter
and Spring 2001,” School of Oceanography, University of Washington, March 2003
“High
Resolution Data Assimilation and Prediction of the Atmosphere and Ocean in the
Mediterranean,” EuroGOOS Meeting, Athens, Greece,
December 2002
“Coupled
Air-Ocean Nested Modeling Studies of the Adriatic Sea,” Adriatic Field Trials
Planning Meeting, NATO Undersea Research Center, La Spezia, Italy, April 2002
“Nested
Modeling Studies of the Adriatic Sea,” American Geophysical Union Ocean
Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI, February 2002 (also session chair)
“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, France, March 2001
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Department
of Homeland Security National Center for Secure and Resilient Maritime Commerce
Summer Research Institute, faculty lead for Consequence Assessment and
Management Team, lecturing and supervising research projects of 10 advanced
undergraduate and graduate students during an 8 week summer school, 2011
OC 331
“Introduction to Oceanography” Sole instructor of three-week physical
oceanography section of junior/senior level undergraduate course at Oregon
State University.
Duties included designing the curriculum, lecturing three hours per week,
formulating homework, grading, keeping office hours and writing and grading the
final exam, 1998
OC 430/530 “Principles of Physical
Oceanography” Teaching assistant for graduate course at Oregon State
University. Duties included teaching a problem solving session once per
week, helping to create homework problems, grading homework and keeping office
hours, 1994
SUPERCOMPUTER EXPERIENCE:
SPECIALIZED RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
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2008 |
Philippines Straits Dynamics Experiment on the R/V
Melville (22 January – 1 February); designed ship sampling strategies
using real-time ocean and atmosphere regional operational forecasts and
assisted with CTD casts Chief Scientist: Arnold Gordon, Columbia University |
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1999 |
Strata Formation on Margins (Eel River, Northern
California) on the R/V Wecoma (28 March – 3
April); assisted with mooring recovery/deployment,
sediment core processing, and CTD casts. Chief
Scientist: Andrea Ogston, University of Washington |
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1996 |
Santa
Barbara Channel - Santa Maria Basin Circulation Study on the R/V Sproul (8-15 January); assisted with data sampling
design, mooring recovery/deployment, CTD casts, drifter deployment and XBT
launches. Chief
Scientist: Myrl Hendershott,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
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1993 |
Los
Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM Summer
graduate research assistant on a long-term simulation of the Atlantic Ocean
using the Connection Machine 5 Supervisors:
Robert Malone and Sumner Dean |
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1992 |
Los
Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 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, University of Chicago 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, University of Chicago 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, Washington DC (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, Los Alamos, NM (a two week program to instruct industrial and academic
participants in parallel computation) |
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1992 |
Complex
Systems Winter School, Tucson, AZ (a two week graduate/postdoctoral program sponsored by the
Santa Fe Institute) |
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1991 |
Comparative
Invertebrate Embryology, Friday Harbor, WA (an intensive summer graduate course at the University of
Washington’s marine laboratory) |
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1990 |
Complex
Systems Summer School, Santa Fe, NM (a four week graduate/postdoctoral program sponsored by the
Santa Fe Institute) |