LuAnn Thompson
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Washington
ThesisFlow over finite isolated topography (1991)

LuAnn Thompson is the Walters Endowed Professor at the University of Washington. She is known for her work in modeling the movement of heat and chemicals via ocean currents.

Education and career

Thompson grew up in northern California and was interested in astrophysics.[1] She received a B.S. in physics from the University of California, Davis (1983), an M.A. in physics from Harvard University (1986), and a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1990). Following her Ph.D. she moved to the University of Washington first as a post-doctoral fellow, and then she joined the faculty in 1993. She was promoted to professor in 2010 and named the Walters Professor of Oceanography in 2016.[2]

Research

Thompson's early research developed models of water flow[3] and used laboratory experiments to examine the production of eddies.[4] Subsequent research examined the factors controlling sea surface height,[5][6] which she measures using data from satellites,[7] and the physical conditions in the ocean that lead to the formation of water masses.[8][9] Through collaborative projects she has examined how changes in water circulation alter the oxygen levels in seawater[10][11] and how marine heatwaves will impact marine ecosystems.[12][13] In ongoing policy discussions, Thompson seeks to use science to support discussions on climate change[14][15] and analyzes factors limiting promotion of women in science.[16][17][18]

Selected publications

Awards and honors

Thompson was named a fellow of the American Meteorological Society in 2014.[19]

References

  1. ^ "Autobiographical sketches". Oceanography. 27 (4): 236. December 17, 2015.
  2. ^ "Thompson CV" (PDF). October 2021. Retrieved February 13, 2022.
  3. ^ Thompson, Luanne (1993-07-01). "Two-Layer Quasigeostrophic Flow over Finite Isolated Topography". Journal of Physical Oceanography. 23 (7): 1297–1314. Bibcode:1993JPO....23.1297T. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1993)023<1297:TLQFOF>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0022-3670.
  4. ^ Thompson, Luanne; Young, W. R. (1989-02-01). "An Upper Bound on the Size of Sub-mesoscale Coherent Vortices". Journal of Physical Oceanography. 19 (2): 233–237. Bibcode:1989JPO....19..233T. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1989)019<0233:AUBOTS>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0022-3670.
  5. ^ Vivier, Frédéric; Kelly, Kathryn A.; Thompson, LuAnne (1999-09-15). "Contributions of wind forcing, waves, and surface heating to sea surface height observations in the Pacific Ocean". Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 104 (C9): 20767–20788. Bibcode:1999JGR...10420767V. doi:10.1029/1999jc900096. ISSN 0148-0227.
  6. ^ Thompson, Lu Anne; Kelly, Kathryn A.; Darr, David; Hallberg, Robert (2002-12-01). "Buoyancy and Mixed Layer Effects on the Sea Surface Height Response in an Isopycnal Model of the North Pacific". Journal of Physical Oceanography. 32 (12): 3657–3670. Bibcode:2002JPO....32.3657T. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(2002)032<3657:BAMLEO>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0022-3670.
  7. ^ Hersher, Rebecca (November 19, 2022). "NASA Satellite To Measure Global Sea Level Rise". NPR. Retrieved February 13, 2022.
  8. ^ Thompson, LuAnne (2000-03-15). "Ekman layers and two-dimensional frontogenesis in the upper ocean". Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 105 (C3): 6437–6451. Bibcode:2000JGR...105.6437T. doi:10.1029/1999jc900336. ISSN 0148-0227.
  9. ^ Ladd, Carol; Thompson, Lu Anne (2000-05-01). "Formation Mechanisms for North Pacific Central and Eastern Subtropical Mode Waters". Journal of Physical Oceanography. 30 (5): 868–887. Bibcode:2000JPO....30..868L. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(2000)030<0868:FMFNPC>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0022-3670.
  10. ^ Deutsch, Curtis; Brix, Holger; Ito, Taka; Frenzel, Hartmut; Thompson, LuAnne (15 July 2011). "Climate-Forced Variability of Ocean Hypoxia". Science. 333 (6040): 336–339. Bibcode:2011Sci...333..336D. doi:10.1126/science.1202422. PMID 21659566. S2CID 11752699.
  11. ^ Deutsch, Curtis (2005). "Fingerprints of climate change in North Pacific oxygen". Geophysical Research Letters. 32 (16). Bibcode:2005GeoRL..3216604D. doi:10.1029/2005gl023190. ISSN 0094-8276. S2CID 55921065.
  12. ^ Guo, Xiuwen; Gao, Yang; Zhang, Shaoqing; Wu, Lixin; Chang, Ping; Cai, Wenju; Zscheischler, Jakob; Leung, L. Ruby; Small, Justin; Danabasoglu, Gokhan; Thompson, Luanne (2022). "Threat by marine heatwaves to adaptive large marine ecosystems in an eddy-resolving model". Nature Climate Change. 12 (2): 179–186. Bibcode:2022NatCC..12..179G. doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01266-5. ISSN 1758-678X. PMC 7612885. PMID 35757518. S2CID 246492876.
  13. ^ Scannell, H. A.; Johnson, G. C.; Thompson, L.; Lyman, J. M.; Riser, S. C. (2020). "Subsurface Evolution and Persistence of Marine Heatwaves in the Northeast Pacific". Geophysical Research Letters. 47 (23): e2020GL090548. Bibcode:2020GeoRL..4790548S. doi:10.1029/2020GL090548. ISSN 1944-8007. S2CID 228922216.
  14. ^ Sanders, Julia-Grace (April 2017). "How Seattle's March for Science came to be | Crosscut". crosscut.com. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  15. ^ Radke, Bill; Martin, Matt (November 29, 2016). "Climate scientist recommendation to her own kind: 'Be a little bit braver'". kuow.org. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  16. ^ Thompson, LuAnne; Perez, Renellys C.; Shevenell, Amelia E. (April 2011). "Closed ranks in oceanography". Nature Geoscience. 4 (4): 211–212. Bibcode:2011NatGe...4..211T. doi:10.1038/ngeo1113.
  17. ^ Thompson, LuAnne; Perez, Renellys C.; Shevenell, Amelia E. (June 2011). "Reply to 'Not just family matters'". Nature Geoscience. 4 (6): 346. Bibcode:2011NatGe...4..346T. doi:10.1038/ngeo1165.
  18. ^ Duncombe, Jenessa (2019-06-06). "Women in Oceanography Still Navigate Rough Seas". Eos. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  19. ^ "List of Fellows". American Meteorological Society. Retrieved 2022-02-13.

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