About Sarah Dewey
I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Arctic Initiative of Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
I hold a PhD and MS in Oceanography from the University of Washington. Supervised by Dr. Jamie Morison, my graduate research focused on the seasonal ice zone in the Beaufort Gyre ocean circulation system north of Alaska. Extending from the ice-covered ocean to the open water, the seasonal ice zone occupies a complicated intersection of ocean, atmosphere, and ice physics. To understand these processes, I conducted fieldwork as part of the Seasonal Ice Zone Reconnaissance Surveys (SIZRS) program at the UW Applied Physics Lab's Polar Science Center (PSC); working with the United States Coast Guard, PSC researchers deploy measurement probes from aircraft flying above the Arctic Ocean’s surface.
I arrived at PSC 2012 from the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, where I worked with NOAA’s Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array group. In addition to my graduate degrees, I hold a BS in Geology & Geophysics from Yale University, where I was introduced to Arctic oceanography during a senior research project that employed ice-tethered profiler data.
Besides my passion for fieldwork, a background in journalism and environmental education has fed my interest in science education and outreach. While in graduate school, I volunteered regularly at city-wide events to share the work of the Polar Science Center with the Seattle community; I look forward to conducting similar outreach in Cambridge.
I hold a PhD and MS in Oceanography from the University of Washington. Supervised by Dr. Jamie Morison, my graduate research focused on the seasonal ice zone in the Beaufort Gyre ocean circulation system north of Alaska. Extending from the ice-covered ocean to the open water, the seasonal ice zone occupies a complicated intersection of ocean, atmosphere, and ice physics. To understand these processes, I conducted fieldwork as part of the Seasonal Ice Zone Reconnaissance Surveys (SIZRS) program at the UW Applied Physics Lab's Polar Science Center (PSC); working with the United States Coast Guard, PSC researchers deploy measurement probes from aircraft flying above the Arctic Ocean’s surface.
I arrived at PSC 2012 from the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, where I worked with NOAA’s Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array group. In addition to my graduate degrees, I hold a BS in Geology & Geophysics from Yale University, where I was introduced to Arctic oceanography during a senior research project that employed ice-tethered profiler data.
Besides my passion for fieldwork, a background in journalism and environmental education has fed my interest in science education and outreach. While in graduate school, I volunteered regularly at city-wide events to share the work of the Polar Science Center with the Seattle community; I look forward to conducting similar outreach in Cambridge.
