Anna Chen陈一语

My research centers on modeling the ocean carbon and biogeochemical cycles. I am most interested in understanding and improving hindcast and forecast models, particularly disentangling impacts from internal variability from that of model structure; in resolving regional-scale biogeochemical fluxes with tractable statistical and algebraic methods; and in understanding how sparse and uneven observational coverage propagates into our model estimates.

For my PhD work, I want to utilize the full range of available data — Argo floats, satellite retrievals, and ship-track and bottle measurements — and to characterize the distinct uncertainties each source carries. The Arctic and the Southern Ocean draw my curiosity most, since both remain sparsely observed and biogeochemically complex. Having also worked in paleoceanographic reconstruction, I would like to potentially bring state-of-the-art modeling methods to bear on constraining uncertainty in the paleo ocean as well.