About Sarah Dewey
Sarah Dewey holds a PhD and MS in Oceanography from the University of Washington. Supervised by Dr. Jamie Morison, her 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, Dr. Dewey 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.
Dr. Dewey arrived at PSC 2012 from the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, where she worked with NOAA’s Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array group. In addition to her graduate degrees, she holds a BS in Geology & Geophysics from Yale University, where she was introduced to Arctic oceanography during a senior research project that employed ice-tethered profiler data.
Besides her passion for fieldwork, a background in journalism and environmental education has fed Dr. Dewey's interest in science education and outreach. She volunteers regularly at city-wide events to share the work of the Polar Science Center with the Seattle community.
Dr. Dewey arrived at PSC 2012 from the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, where she worked with NOAA’s Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array group. In addition to her graduate degrees, she holds a BS in Geology & Geophysics from Yale University, where she was introduced to Arctic oceanography during a senior research project that employed ice-tethered profiler data.
Besides her passion for fieldwork, a background in journalism and environmental education has fed Dr. Dewey's interest in science education and outreach. She volunteers regularly at city-wide events to share the work of the Polar Science Center with the Seattle community.
