Group Members
Dr. Rebecca Jackson, Assistant Professor
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth & Climate Sciences at Tufts University and an affiliate of the Department of Marine & Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University. Prior to Tufts, I was an assistant professor at Rutgers, and before that a NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoc fellow at Oregon State University. I received my PhD in physical oceanography from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program.
My research focuses on ocean-glacier interactions, coastal dynamics, and polar processes. Broadly, I am interested in how heat and freshwater are exchanged between the ocean and cryosphere, and I explore these dynamics across a range of scales, from the ocean-ice boundary layer to the continental shelf ocean. See Research section for more details!
Link to CV (Sept 2022)
Bridget Ovall, PhD student
Bridget is a PhD student in the Graduate Program in Oceanography at Rutgers, funded by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. She earned a B.S. in Marine Science from University of Washington. She then spent a year working at WHOI with Bob Pickart at WHOI, where she conducted research exploring the relationship between wind forcing, ice cover, and circulation in the Chukchi Sea. Bridget is interested in polar oceanography and her PhD work investigates ocean-glacier interactions with data collected near the terminus of tidewater glaciers.
Lois Andersen, PhD student
Lois is a PhD student in the Graduate Program in Oceanography at Rutgers. She finished her B.S. in Geophysical Science at the University of Chicago, where she first became interested in the changing cryosphere. As an undergraduate, she studied under the Juneau Icefield Research Program conducting passive seismology fieldwork across the Taku Glacier. At Rutgers, Lois will investigate interaction between marine-terminating glaciers and the ocean through fjord systems in Greenland and Southeast Alaska.
Eli Hunter, Marine Scientist & Technician
Past Members
Jesse Cusack (website)
postdoc, 2020-2022
now: Assistant Professor at Oregon State University
Gabrielle Ricche
undergraduate REU researcher 2021
now: PhD student at University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
Please get in touch if you are interested in research opportunities to join the group as a PhD student, postdoc, or undergraduate!