Carlyn Schmidgall

Program Year:

University:

University of Washington

Field of Study:

Physical Oceanography

Advisor:

Peter Gaube

and LuAnne Thompson

Degree(s):

B.S. Mathematics/Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, 2020

Practicum Experience(s)

Los Alamos National Laboratory (2024)

Practicum Supervisor(s):

Wilbert

Weijer

Practicum Title:

Unraveling the controls on Arctic Ocean salinity stratification through E3SM-Arctic tracer release experiments

Annual Program Review Abstracts

Fellow Poster

: Unraveling the Controls on Arctic Ocean Salinity Stratification Through E3SM-Arctic Tracer Release Experiments (

2024

)

Fellow Poster

: Observations and Modeling of Salinity Variability in the Beaufort Gyre (

2023

)

Publications

Carlyn Schmidgall, Yidongfang Si, Andrew Stewart, Andrew Thompson, and Andrew Hogg. Dynamical Controls on Transport and Transformation of Bottom Waters across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2023.

Elizabeth Westbrooke and 7 coauthors, including Carlyn Schmidgall. Classification of sea-ice concentration from ship-board S-band radar images using open-source machine learning tools. Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems, 2026.

Kyla Drushka and 15 co-authors, including Carlyn Schmidgall. Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE): An oceanographic field campaign in the Beaufort Sea. Earth System Science Data, 2024.

Jean-Luc Margot and 37 co-authors, including Carlyn Schmidgall. A Search for Technosignatures Around 31 Sun-like Stars with the Green Bank Telescope at 1.15-1.73 GHz. Astronomical Journal, 2021.

Awards

UW College of the Environment, Integral Environmental Big Data award (February 2026)
UW Program on Climate Change, Climate Solutions award (September 2024)
DEIXIS Communicate Your Science Essay award winner (July 2023)
AMS Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, Outstanding Student Presentation Award: Poster (July 2022)
University of Washington, Edgvet Scholar Award (April 2022)
Outstanding Student Speaker, California Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Meeting (September 2021)
UCLA Dean's Honors List (2018-2020)
UCLA Achievement Scholarship winner (2016-2020)