POSTDOCTORAL INVESTIGATOR

Interests: Sea-level change, Satellite altimetry, Ocean turbulence

Carolina is an oceanographer who graduated from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG, Brazil) in 2015 and works on present-day sea-level change. Her work with sea-level change started during her bachelors, when she used geophysics (sub-bottom profiler of 3.5 kHz) to find evidence of past coastlines in the continental shelf, when sea-level was lower than present. Carolina then received a fellowship to pursue a MSc degree in Marine and Lacustrine Science and Management funded by ISA/GSR Training Programme. For her master’s thesis, she continued to work with sea-level observations, now focusing on quality control of near-real time tide gauges observations. In 2019, Carolina started her PhD at the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and Delft University of Technology. Her PhD research focused on looking at the drivers of regional sea-level change since 1993, using a suite of observations, including satellite altimetry, gravimetry and Argo floats. Now at WHOI, she will look in more detail at the relationship of ocean dynamics and coastal sea-level change along the New England Coast. Carolina is also interested in ocean turbulence, which she had the opportunity to study at Rockland Scientific (RSI, Canada) and at the Oceanic Observatory of Madeira (OOM, Portugal). When not talking about research, you will probably hear Carolina talking about Napoleon (her sidekick dog), about movies and series she has been binge-watching, and about her creative projects, such as toilet-paper roll art-craft and watercolor painting.

EDUCATION

• BA Oceanography; Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (Brazil) 2015
• MSc Marine and Lacustrine Science and Management; inter-university program between the Free University of Brussel (VUB), Antwerp University (UAntwerpen) and Ghent University (UGent) 2018
• PhD Geosciences, Delft University of Technology 2023