Carol Anne Clayson is an American physical oceanographer. Her research studies the processes connecting the ocean to the atmosphere through both high-resolution

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and computer models, including the transport of heat, fresh water, and water vapor through the ocean and atmosphere, and the effects of these processes on climate and weather. She is a part time senior scientist at the

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Education and career

Clayson majored in physics and astronomy at

Brigham Young University Brigham Young University (BYU) is a Private education, private research university in Provo, Utah, United States. It was founded in 1875 by religious leader Brigham Young and is the flagship university of the Church Educational System sponsore ...

, graduating in 1988. She continued her studies in aerospace engineering science at the

University of Colorado The University of Colorado (CU) is a system of public universities in Colorado. It consists of four institutions: the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, the University of Colorado Denver, and the U ...

, where she received a master's degree in 1990 and completed her Ph.D. in the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences in 1995. She became an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at

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in 1995, and was tenured as an associate professor in 2001. In 2002, she moved to the Department of Meteorology at

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, where she became director of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute. She took her present position at the

in 2011. She was promoted to senior scientist in 2014, and became director of the Center for Air-Sea Interaction and Marine Atmospheric Sciences in 2018.

Books

Clayson is the author of: *''Numerical Models of Oceans and Oceanic Processes'' (2000) *''Small Scale Processes in Geophysical Fluid Flows'' (2000)

Recognition

Clayson received a

National Science Foundation CAREER Award The National Science Foundation CAREER award is the most prestigious award presented by the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the United States Federal Government to support junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through rese ...

in 1996, an

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Young Investigator Award in 2000, and the

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in 2000. She was the 2021

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Distinguished Climate Lecturer.

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