Staff Profile

ALICE REN

Preferred Name: Alice Ren

Postdoctoral Investigator

Physical Oceanography

Email: alice.ren@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 3023

Office: Clark Laboratory-3rd Floor PO 

Address:
 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,   Mail Stop 21
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543

Website: https://arenscripps.github.io/home/

Lab/Group Site: http://gliders.whoi.edu/

Some Info During my PhD, I worked with large ocean datasets collected by underwater gliders (https://spraydata.ucsd.edu/). At WHOI, I am continuing to work with gliders in the Gulf Stream. I also work on dissolved oxygen observations collected autonomously with gliders (see https://boom.science/team/).

Education

  • B.S. Duke University 2010
  • M.S. University of Maine, Orono 2016
  • Ph.D. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, 2022

Publications

  1. Ren, A.S., Rudnick, D.L., and Nicholson, D.P. (2025). Seasonal dissolved oxygen gas exchange in the California Current Upwelling System. Progress in Oceanography, 103473. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2025.103473
  2. Alford, M. H., Le Boyer, A., Ren, A. S., Voet, G., Bellerjeau, C., Whalen, C. B., et al. (2025). Observations of turbulence generated by a near-inertial wave propagating downward in an anticyclonic eddy. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2024GL114070. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL114070
  3. Ren, A.S., and Todd, R.E. (2025). Springtime warming by ocean advection in the Gulf Stream. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2024GL111000. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL111000
  4. Ren, A.S., Rudnick, D.L., and Twombly, A. (2023). Drift characteristics of Sea-Bird dissolved oxygen optode sensors. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 40(12), 1457-1468. https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-22-0103.1
  5. Todd, R.E. and Ren, A.S. (2023). Warming and lateral shift of the Gulf Stream from in situ observations since 2001. Nature Climate Change, 13, 1348–1352. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01835-w
  6. Ren, A.S., Rudnick, D.L. (2022). Across-shore propagation of subthermocline eddies in the California Current System. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52(1), 39-51. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-21-0137.1
  7. Ren, A.S., Rudnick, D.L. (2021). Temperature and salinity extremes from 2014-2019 in the California Current System and its source waters. Communications Earth & Environment, 2(62). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00131-9
  8. Ren, A. S., Chai, F., Xue, H., Anderson, D. M., & Chavez, F. P. (2018). A Sixteen-year Decline in Dissolved Oxygen in the Central California Current. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 7290. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-25341-8
  9. Chavez, F. P., Pennington, J. T., Michisaki, R. P., Blum, M., Chavez, G. M., Friederich, J., … & Ren, A. S. (2017). Climate Variability and Change: Response of a Coastal Ocean Ecosystem. Oceanography, 30(4), 128-145. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2017.429