Staff Spotlight: Christy Sims
Research Scientist
Christy Sims has worked with NOAA’s Marine Mammal Lab at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center since 1998 first as a volunteer, then a student worker, a contractor, and finally as a JISAO employee since July 2015.
Staff Spotlight – Karin Bumbaco
Assistant State Climatologist
Karin joined JISAO’s Office of the Washington State Climatologist (OWSC) in November 2008 as the Assistant State Climatologist.
Staff Spotlight – Rachel White
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Rachel joined JISAO as a postdoc at the beginning of 2015. She works in atmospheric dynamics, playing with coupled climate models to study large scale circulation.
Staff Spotlight: Erin Richmond
Research Scientist
Erin has worked for NOAA since 2008 and joined JISAO in October of 2015 as a Research Scientist in the Polar Ecosystems Program with the Marine Mammal Lab at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Seattle.
Science for Kids
Arctic Mission
This video shows how researchers from the University of Washington collect data to help understand how melting sea ice in the Arctic is affecting weather patterns around the world.
Staff Spotlight: Heather Tabisola
Research Coordinator
Heather Tabisola recently joined JISAO as a Research Coordinator after spending most of her career life offshore, on a boat either working as a deck hand and research assistant or watching and listening for whales.
Staff Spotlight: Casey Saenger
Research Scientist
As indicated by his austere office furnishing, Casey is a fresh face around JISAO having recently relocated from the mountains and strip malls of Anchorage, Alaska.
Staff Spotlight: Bonnie Chang
Postdoctoral Researcher
Bonnie joined JISAO in November 2013 as one of the three early career scientists who have been awarded JISAO Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in 2013.
Staff Spotlight: Jim Osse
Research Engineer: Engineering Development Division
After a 3-year hiatus in Italy, Jim Osse returned to the Seattle area and joined the Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Ocean at the beginning of the year.
Staff Spotlight: Adrienne Sutton
Research Scientist – Marine Carbon Group
Adrienne Sutton joined JISAO in January 2012 as a Research Scientist in the marine carbon group at the Pacific Marine Environmental Lab (PMEL).