Professor Jennifer MacKinnon

Dr. MacKinnon is a seagoing physical oceanographer and part of the Multiscale Ocean Dynamics group at SIO/UCSD. She studies small-scale dynamical processes in the ocean, primarily internal waves, turbulence, sub-mesoscale instabilities, and their often complex interplay.  Part of her work involves going to sea to observe these processes, using the ocean as a natural laboratory.   Simultaneously, she working with collaborators to turn this dynamical understanding into better parameterizations of small-scale processes to improve global climate models. 

Research Interests

• Physical Oceanography

• Internal Waves and Ocean Mixing

• Coastal Oceanography

• Sub-mesoscale instabilities

• Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions

• Applied Ocean Sciences

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