Ke Chen
| Associate Scientist | Telephone: +1 508-289-2308 |
| Department of Physical Oceanography | Fax: 508-457-2181 |
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | E-mail: kchen@whoi.edu |
| Woods Hole, MA 02543 | Home Page: http://www.whoi.edu/people/kchen/ |
EDUCATION:
B. Sc., Oceanography, Ocean University of China, 2004
M. Sc., Physical Oceanography, Ocean University of China, 2007
Ph.D., Physical Oceanography, North Carolina State University, 2011
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2020-
Assistant Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2016-2020
Postdoctoral Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2014-2016
Postdoctoral Scholar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2012-2014
Postdoctoral Research Associate, North Carolina State University, 2011-2012
Research Assistant, North Carolina State University, 2007-2011
AWARDS:
George E. Thibault Early Career Award, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2024
Postdoctoral Scholarship, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2012
Williams/Tobias Award, North Carolina State University, 2010
Graduate Scholarship, Ocean University of China, 2004-2006
Undergraduate Scholarship, Ocean University of China, 2003
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
American Geophysical Union
American Meteorological Society
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Coastal Ocean Dynamics and Climate; Shelf-Ocean Exchange; Physical-Biological/Biogeochemical Interactions; Numerical Modeling and Data Assimilation
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
WHOI (Non-Education Related):
- Blue Book Working Group, 2024-
- Ocean Vital Signs Network (OVSN) Scientific Implementation Team, 2023-
- Summer Student Fellowship selection committee and department coordinator, 2023-
- Ocean and Climate Innovation Accelerator Proposal Review Panel, 2022
- Physical Oceanography department retreat planning committee, 2019, 2023
- Physical Oceanography department scientific staff recruitment committee, 2018-2022
- Physical Oceanography department seminar coordinator, 2016-2018
- High Performance Computing advisory committee, 2016-2021
Outside WHOI (Other than Attendance at Society/National Meetings):
Leadership:
- US CLIVAR Phenomena, Observations, and Synthesis (POS) Panel member, 2023-
- Convener and Discussion Leader, US CLIVAR Summit 2023 session “Earth Energy Imbalance and Marine Heatwaves”.
- Convener and Discussion Leader, US CLIVAR Summit 2023 session “Interactions of Coastal and Open Ocean in a Changing Climate”.
- American Meteorological Society Coastal Environment Committee, 2023-
- Co-chair and moderator, session “Advances in Understanding Marine Heatwaves and Their Impacts” in Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR, 2018
Workshops and Working Groups:
- Member of US CLIVAR AMOC Science Task Team, 2021-
- NOAA Earth System Science and Modeling (ESSM) workshop “Climate Research to Enhance Resilience to Extreme Heat”, Silver Spring, MD, 2019
- Invited participant to Northeast Climate Integrated Modeling workshop, Portland, ME, 2019
- Member of NOAA Marine Prediction Task Force, 2017-2020
- Invited participant to NSF Ocean Observing Initiative (OOI) Coastal Observatories Workshop, Arlington, VA, 2016
- Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Wave-Sediment Transport (COAWST) Modeling System Workshop, Woods Hole, MA, 2014
- Invited participant to Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region (CINAR) Shelfbreak Ecosystem Workshop, Providence, RI, 2013
- Invited participant to NSF Ocean Observing Initiative (OOI) Pioneer Array Science Workshop, Providence, RI, 2011
- Gulf of Mexico Pilot Prediction Project Meeting, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, 2010
- ROMS 4-Dimensional Variational (4D-Var) Data Assimilation Systems workshop for Advanced ROMS Users, Santa Cruz, CA, 2010
Editorial:
- Co-Editor: Frontiers in Marine Science, special issue “Advances in Understanding Marine Heatwaves and Their Impacts”
Reviewing:
- Journals: Advances in Meteorology, Applied Mathematical Modeling, Biogeosciences, Communications Earth and Environment, Continental Shelf Research, Deep-Sea Research, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Journal of Climate, Journal of Geophysical Research, Journal of Marine Systems, Journal of Physical Oceanography, Nature Communications, Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, Ocean Modeling, Progress in Oceanography
- Books: Monitoring and Modeling the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: A Record-Breaking Enterprise, Geophysical Monograph Series, AGU/geopress, Washington, D.C.
- Proposals: National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
PARTICIPATION IN EDUCATION PROGRAM:
Courses taught:
Dynamics of Shelf Circulation, Fall 2012 (NCSU, R. He primary lecturer), Coastal Ocean Modeling, Spring 2010 (NCSU, R. He primary lecturer), Coastal Circulation Dynamics, Fall 2009 (NCSU, R. He primary lecturer)
Guest lecturer:
WHOI Summer Student Lecture Series, 2019
Advising:
WHOI Summer Student Fellows: Shuai Meng (2019)
Ph.D. dissertation committees: Jacob Forsyth (2017-2020), Lukas Taenzer (2022-), MIT-WHOI Joint Program; Tianning Wu, North Carolina State University (2024-)
Post-Doctoral Fellows: Zhuomin Chen (2018-2021), Robert Schlegel (2019-2020), Alma Carolina Castillo Trujillo (2021-), Onur Karakus (2023-), Yiming Guo (2024-)
Guest student: Jue Ning (2019-2021)
CRUISE PARTICIPATION/FIELD WORK:
NCSU Slocum glider deployment/recovery, R/V Explorer, Savannah, GA, Mar 2012
NCSU Slocum glider deployment/recovery, R/V Seahawk, Wilmington, NC, Mar 2012
NCSU Slocum glider ballasting and deployment, Wilmington, NC, Aug 2011
Physical and biogeochemical survey, Sargasso Sea, R/V Cape Hatteras, Mar 2008
Multi-disciplinary oceanographic survey, East China Sea, R/V Dongfanghong II, Jun-Jul 2006
SC cross-section survey, Yellow Sea, Mar 2005
RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS:
Full Seminars:
What drives the mean along-shelf flow in the Northwest Atlantic coastal ocean? PO department seminar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, 2024.
Atmospheric vs Oceanic Drivers of Two Marine Heatwaves in the Northwest Atlantic Coastal Ocean, CASPO seminar, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of San Diego (virtual), 2022.
Mesoscale and submesoscale shelf-ocean exchanges initialize an advective Marine Heatwave, DEOS/SMAST seminar, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (virtual), 2022 (invited).
Mesoscale and submesoscale shelf-ocean exchanges initialize an advective Marine Heatwave, POA seminar, Oregon State University (virtual), 2022.
Mesoscale and submesoscale shelf-ocean exchanges initialize an advective Marine Heatwave, PO department seminar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, 2022
Atmospheric vs Oceanic Drivers of Two Marine Heatwaves in the Northwest Atlantic Coastal Ocean, METEO colloquium, Pennsylvania State University (virtual), 2021 (invited).
Marine Heatwaves in the Northwest Atlantic Coastal Ocean, coastal ocean modeling seminar series, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) of New Zealand (virtual), 2021 (invited).
Vertical Velocity and Nutrient Delivery in Warm Core Rings, PO department seminar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, 2020.
Heat Balance in the Northeast US Coastal Ocean: Extreme event, Interannual variability, and Pacific-Atlantic connection, School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2019.
Heat balance and temperature variability in the Northeast US coastal ocean, College of Marine Science seminar, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, 2017 (invited).
Heat balance and temperature variability in the Northeast US coastal ocean, PO department seminar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, 2016 (invited).
Heat balance and temperature variability in the Northeast US coastal ocean, University of Maine, Orono, ME, 2016.
Shelfbreak Biophysical Interactions and Recent Extreme Climate Variability in the Middle Atlantic Bight, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2015 (invited).
Shelfbreak Circulation in the Middle Atlantic Bight and Its Interaction with the Gulf Stream Warm Core Ring, University of Miami & Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, FL, 2015 (invited).
Middle Atlantic Bight Shelfbreak Circulation Dynamics and Biophysical Interactions, Graduate School of Oceanography/University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, 2013 (invited).
Numerical investigation of the Middle Atlantic Bight shelfbreak frontal circulation and its interaction with a Warm Core Ring, School for Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, 2013 (invited).
Numerical investigation of the Middle Atlantic Bight shelfbreak frontal circulation and its interaction with a Warm Core Ring, PO department seminar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, 2013.
Middle Atlantic Bight Shelfbreak Circulation Dynamics and Biophysical Interactions, AOPE department seminar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, 2012.
Numerical Investigation of the Middle Atlantic Bight Shelfbreak Frontal Circulation, Marine Earth and Atmospheric Science department seminar, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 2010.
Conference Presentations (selected):
Chen, K., Physics of Marine Heatwaves in the Northwest Atlantic Coastal Ocean, Ocean Outlook 2024, University of Bergen, Norway, 2024 (invited keynote).
Chen, K., Marine Heatwaves in the Northwest Atlantic Coastal Ocean, US CLIVAR Summit, Seattle, WA, 2023 (invited talk).
Chen, K., A large-magnitude cross-shelfbreak intrusion driven by wind and offshore eddies, Gordon Research Conference Coastal Ocean Dynamics, Bryant University, RI, 2023 (poster).
Chen, K., Mesoscale and submesoscale shelfbreak exchange drives a subsurface marine heatwave in the Northwest Atlantic coastal ocean, NOAA CPO CVP webinar series (virtual), 2023.
Chen, K., A localized large-magnitude cross-shelfbreak intrusion driven by wind and offshore eddies, Western Boundary Currents – Continental Shelf Interactions workshop, Savannah, GA, 2023 (poster).
Chen, K., Synchronization of cyclonic eddies and wind initializes a subsurface heatwave in the Mid-Atlantic Bight, Mid-Atlantic Bight Physical Oceanography and Meteorology (MABPOM) Meeting, University of Delaware, DE, 2022.
Chen, K., Drivers of a subsurface advective Marine Heatwave in the Northwest Atlantic coastal ocean, OOI and Extreme Events town hall meeting (virtual), 2022 (invited speaker).
Chen, K., Mesoscale and submesoscale shelf-ocean exchanges initialize an advective Marine Heatwave, Ocean Sciences Meeting (virtual), 2022.
Chen, K., The 2012 extreme heat in NW Atlantic: from understanding to predictability, NOAA ESSM workshop “Climate Research to Enhance Resilience to Extreme Heat”, Silver Spring, MD, Dec 2019.
Chen, K., Does Pacific Variability Influence the Northwest Atlantic Shelf Temperature?, Middle Atlantic Bight Physical Oceanography and Meteorology meeting, Woods Hole, MA, 2018 (poster).
Chen, K., Does Pacific Variability Influence the Northwest Atlantic Shelf Temperature?, Ocean Sciences meeting, Portland, OR, 2018 (poster).
Chen, K., Atmospheric and offshore forcing of temperature variability at the shelfbreak, OOI Facility Board Ocean Sciences Town Hall meeting, Portland, OR, 2018.
Chen, K., Interannual Variability of Winter-Spring Temperature in the Middle Atlantic Bight, Gordon Research Conference Coastal Ocean Dynamics, Biddeford, ME, 2017 (poster).
Chen, K., Interannual temperature variability in the Middle Atlantic Bight, Middle Atlantic Bight Physical Oceanography and Meteorology Meeting, New Bedford, MA, 2016.
Chen, K., G. Gawarkiewicz, S. Lentz, J. Bane, Y. -O. Kwon, and W. G. Zhang, Heat Balance in the Northwest Atlantic Coastal Ocean: The Role of Atmospheric Forcing versus Ocean Advection during an Extreme Warming, Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2016 (invited author to the session "Coastal Seas and Deep Ocean Connections: Observing and Modeling for Process and Climate Studies").
Chen, K., Recent Extreme Temperature Variability in the Middle Atlantic Bight, Middle Atlantic Bight Physical Oceanography and Meteorology Meeting, Cape May, NJ, 2015.
Chen, K., G. Gawarkiewicz, Y.-O. Kwon, and G. W. Zhang, Heat balance in the Northeast U.S. coastal ocean: the role of atmospheric forcing versus ocean advection during an extreme case in 2012, Gordon Research Conference, Biddeford, ME, 2015 (poster).
Chen, K., G. Gawarkiewicz, S. Lentz, J. Bane, Diagnosing the Warming of the Northeastern U.S. Coastal Ocean in 2012: Integrated Data Analysis and Numerical Modeling, Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI, 2014 (poster).
Chen, K., G. Gawarkiewicz, S. Lentz, J. Bane, Diagnosing the warming in the Northeast US coastal ocean in 2012: Atmospheric forcing or ocean advection?, MABPOM meeting, Narragansett, RI, 2013.
Chen, K., G. Gawarkiewicz, S. Lentz, J. Bane, Diagnosing the warming in the Northeast US coastal ocean in 2012: Atmospheric forcing or ocean advection?, RARGOM meeting, Portsmouth, NH, 2013.
Chen, K., G. Gawarkiewicz, S. Lentz, J. Bane, Diagnosing the warming in the Northeast US coastal ocean in 2012: A linkage between remote atmospheric forcing and local response, Gordon Research Conference, Biddeford, ME, 2013 (poster).
Chen, K., and R. He, Data-Assimilative Modeling Investigation of Gulf Stream Warm-Core Ring Interaction with the Mid-Atlantic Bight Continental Shelf and Slope, Ocean Science Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 2012 (poster).
Chen, K., R. He, B. Powell, A.Moore, Data-Assimilative Modeling Investigation of Gulf Stream Warm-Core Ring Interaction with the Mid-Atlantic Bight Continental Shelf and Slope, Gordon Research Conference, South Hadley, MA, 2011 (poster).
Chen, K., R. He, K. Fennel, Numerical Investigation of the Middle Atlantic Bight Shelfbreak Circulation and Ecosystem Dynamics, Ocean Science Meeting, Portland, OR, 2009 (poster).
Chen, K. and R. He., Investigation of MAB Shelfbreak Circulation and Biophysical Interactions, Mid-Atlantic Bight Physical Oceanography Meteorology & Southeast Coastal Oceanography and Meteorology Conference, Raleigh, NC, 2009.
Chen, K. and R. He, Investigation of Northeastern North America Coastal Circulation Using a Nested Regional Circulation Hindcast Model, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2008 (poster).
Chen, K. and R. He, High Resolution, Coupled biophysical Modeling Experiments for the MAB Shelfbreak: 2006 Hindcast, MABPOM Meeting, Woods Hole, MA, 2008.