Staff Profile

Alison Macdonald

Preferred Name: Alison Macdonald

Preferred Pronouns: she/her

Senior Research Specialist

Physical Oceanography

Email: amacdonald@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 3507

Website: https://www2.whoi.edu/staff/amacdonald/

Some Info I am a physical oceanographer who enjoys going to sea and working with observations. My research focuses on large-scale currents, transport of heat and carbon throughout the global ocean, and climate scale changes in water characteristics in the deep ocean. I am particularly interested in how deep currents move water properties that are changing with time around the globe.

Education

A.B. Bryn Mawr College, 1981, Astronomy
S.M. MIT/WHOI Joint Program, 1991, Physical Oceanography
Ph.D. MIT/WHOI Joint Program, 1995, Physical Oceanography

Research Interests

Ocean circulation and variability as it relates to the transport of mass, heat, freshwater, nutrients and carbon; heat and carbon cycles of the oceans and their role in predicting future atmospheric carbon levels.