HYODAE SEO CV
Senior Scientist
Physical Oceanography Department
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
266 Woods Hole Road, MS#21, Woods Hole, MA 02543
Email: hseo@whoi.edu, Tel: 508-289-2792, Fax: 508-457-2181

Francis E. Fowler IV Ocean and Climate Center Fellow
US CLIVAR Mesoscale Air-Sea Interaction Working Group Co-chair
ONR  Young Investigator Award, 2015
NOAA C&GC Postdoc Fellow, 2007

EDUCATION

• 2007 Ph.D., Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
  • Dissertation: Mesoscale Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction
• 2002 B.S., Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

POSITIONS HELD

• Since 2023.08: Senior Scientist
• 2018.07 – 2023.08: Associate Scientist with Tenure
• 2014.09 – 2018.06: Associate Scientist
• 2010.10 – 2014.08: Assistant Scientist, Physical Oceanography Department, WHOI
• 2009 – 2010: Visiting Assistant Researcher, IPRC, Univ. Hawaii, Manoa (With Prof. Shang-Ping Xie)
• 2008 – 2009: NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow, IPRC, Univ. Hawaii, Manoa (with Prof. Shang-Ping Xie)
• 2007 – 2008: NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA (with Prof. Roberto Mechoso)
• 2007: Visiting Scientist, International Pacific Research Center, Univ. Hawaii, Manoa (With Prof. Niklas Schneider)
• 2002 – 2007: Graduate Research Assistant, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

PUBLICATIONS:

https://hseo.whoi.edu/pubs/

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Francis E. Fowler IV Ocean and Climate Center Fellow, 2022-2023
• Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award, 2015 (WHOI News Release)
• NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship, Class 17, 2007-2009
• Physical Oceanography Dissertation Symposium (PODS) V, Honolulu, 2008
• NCAR Advanced Study Program (ASP) Graduate Student Visiting Fellowship, 2006
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography Frieman Director’s Prize for Excellence in Graduate Student Research, 2006 (UCSD News Release)
• Outstanding Student Paper Award, Ocean Sciences Meeting, 2006

ONGOING FUNDED PROJECTS

• ONR ASTraL DRI (2022-2027): Improving the model simulation of surface wave impacts on air-sea fluxes, turbulent boundary layers, and their impacts on Indian monsoons in the Arabian Seo. lead PI: Seo, $688,863
• NOAA CVP (2022-2025): Exploiting coupled ocean-atmosphere-wave model simulations to identify observational requirements for air-sea interaction studies across the tropical Pacific. PI: H. Seo and S. Wijffels, $773,753
  
• NSF PO (2022-2026): Improving understanding of coupled impacts of oceans and waves on air-sea fluxes in the US Northeast Coast. PIs: H. Seo, C.. Sauvage, J. Edson, C.-A. Clayson, $831.828
• NASA MAP (2021-2024): Improving coupled atmosphere-ocean processes in NU-WRF for the simulation of coast-threatening extratropical cyclones in the northeastern US. PI: Seo; Co-Is: J. Edson, C.-A. Clayson, R. Braun (NASA GSFC), $1,166,106
• DOE WFIP3 (2021-2016): Improving High Resolution Offshore Wind Resource Assessments and Forecasts using Observations in the MA/RI Lease Areas. PIs: A. Kirincich et al., including H. Seo ($10M)
• NSF PO/CLD (2020-2024): Collaborative Research: Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Feedbacks Affecting California Coastal Climate: Current Conditions and Future Projections. PIs: H. Seo (WHOI) and A. Miller (SIO). $497,273
• NOAA CVP (2020-2024): Regional multi-year prediction for the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf. PIs: Y.-O. Kwon, H. Seo, K. Chen (WHOI), P. Frantantoni, V. Saba, and M. Alexander (NOAA), $658,442
• NOAA CVP (2019-2024): Coupled Ocean-atmosphere interaction mediated by ocean mesoscale eddies in the Northwestern Tropical Atlantic Ocean. PIs: H. Seo and C.-A. Clayson, $767,746

MIT/WHOI JOINT PROGRAM TEACHING

• Spring 2024: Climate Variability and Diagnostics, MIT/WHOI Joint Program Course 12.860, Co-teaching with C. Ummenhofer
  Fall 2023: Air-Sea interaction and Boundary Layers, MIT/WHOI Joint Program Course 12.870, Co-teaching with Tom Farrar
• Fall 2021: Guest Lecture on “Mesoscale Air-Sea Interaction”. MIT/WHOI Joint Program Course 12.870
• Fall 2021: Climate Variability and Diagnostics, MIT/WHOI Joint Program Course 12.860, Co-teaching with C. Ummenhofer
• Fall 2019: Introduction to Physical Oceanography, MIT/WHOI Joint Program Course 12.808, Co-teaching with J. Toole
• Fall 2019: Climate Variability and Diagnostics, MIT/WHOI Joint Program Course 12.860, Co-teaching with C. Ummenhofer
• Fall 2018: Introduction to Physical Oceanography, MIT/WHOI Joint Program Course 12.808, Co-teaching with L. Pratt and J. Toole
• Fall 2017: Climate Variability and Diagnostics, MIT/WHOI Joint Program Course 12.860, Co-teaching with C. Ummenhofer
• Fall 2017: Introduction to Physical Oceanography, MIT/WHOI Joint Program Course 12.808, Co-teaching with L. Pratt and J. Toole
• Fall 2016: Introduction to Physical Oceanography, MIT/WHOI Joint Program Course 12.808, Co-teaching with M. Andres and L. Pratt
• Fall 2015: Guest Lecture on “Intraseasonal Variability in the Tropics”. Climate Variability and Diagnostics, MIT/WHOI Joint Program Course 12.860

MENTORING AND ADVISING ACTIVITIES

Research Associate

• Dr. César Sauvage (2023-2023), RA3

Postdocs

• Dr. Benjamin Barr (2023 August - Present)
• Dr. Shikhar Rai (2023 July - Present)
• Dr. Christoph Renkl (2023 January - Present)
• Dr. Alma Carolina Castillo-Trujillo (2021 - Present)
• Dr. César Sauvage (2020-2023), now RA3 at WHOI
• Dr. John Steffen (2019-2021, now at NOAA)
• Dr. Rhys Parfitt (2016-2018, now Assistant Professor at Florida State University)

Students

• Yoo-Jun Kim (Tokyo University) November 2023-March 2024. Yoo-Jun is working on coastal and estuary circulation around Japan, looking into LES-scale winds and circulation.
• Peisen Tan (University of Miami), Summer of 2023: Laboratory and numerical modeling of short wind waves and swell interactions.
• Sam Bartusek (Princeton University, Summer Student Fellow, 2019, now in Columbia Univ.). Coastal ocean responses to landfalling ARs (Bartusek et al. 2021), See also WHOI Research News
• Yuqing Liu (Bremen University, Guest Student, 2018, now at AWI, Germany): Submesoscale air-sea coupling
• Manthan Shah (Northeastern University, Guest Student 2018): Scale-dependence of SST-wind coupling in the western tropical Indian Ocean
• Yuan Xu (University of Twente, Guest Student 2018): Decadal variability in the southern Indian Ocean (Xu et al. 2020)
• Xiaolin Jin (Tsinghua University, Visiting Student 2017), Decadal Subsurface Ocean Heat Content Variations in the Indian Ocean. (Jin et al. 2018a, Jin et al. 2018b)
• Samuel Coakley (Rutgers University, Summer Student Fellow 2017): Southeast Asian monsoon variability in the CESM-Last Millennium Ensemble
• David Smith (Northeastern University, Guest Student 2016): Decadal predictability of the North Atlantic Blocking
• Channing Prend (Columbia University, Summer Student Fellow, 2016, now at Scripps): Impact of freshwater plumes on intraseasonal SST variability from moored observations in the Bay of Bengal (Prend et al. 2018, Weller et al. 2019)
• Siraput Jongaramrungruang (University of Cambridge, Summer Student Fellow, 2015, now at Caltech): Interannual modulation of intraseasonal air-sea coupling in the Bay of Bengal (Jongaramrungruang et al. 2017)
• Alicia Camacho (Valparaiso University, UCAR SOARS student 2015, now at Stony Brook University): North Atlantic Oscillation, Jet and Blocking in CESM1 Large Ensemble Simulations. (Kwon et al. 2018)
• Carlos Martinez (Texas A&M University, UCAR SOARS student 2014, now at Columbia University): North Atlantic Atmospheric Blocking and Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation in CESM1 Large Ensemble Simulations. Carlos won the Grand Prize at the Virtual Poster Showcase, AGU 2014!

Dissertation Committee

• Ph.D. General Exam Advisor for Anthony Meza (MIT-WHOI Joint Program), 2022-2023
• Ph.D. Thesis Committee Chair for Hanyuan Liu (MIT-WHOI Joint Program), 2021-2023
• Ph.D. External Examiner for Christoph Renkl (Dalhousie University, Oceanography), 2020
• Ph.D. Thesis committee for Jared Buckley (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth), 2015-2019
• M.S. Thesis Committee for Xin Zhou (Florida Institute of Technology), 2015-2016
• MS. Thesis committee for Sara Bosshart (MIT-WHOI Joint Program), 2013

Society Memberships:

• American Geophysical Union (2002-Present)
• American Meteorological Society (2002-Present)
• The Oceanography Society (2012-Present)

Community Activities:

• WHOI Representative of UCAR, 2018-Present
• Associate Editor in Journal of Climate, 2018-Present
• Co-chair of the US CLIVAR Air-Sea Interaction Working Group, 2019-Present
• Member of the US CLIVAR Air-Sea Transition Zone Study Group, 2022-Present
• Member of the AMS STAC Committee on Air-Sea Interaction, 2019-2022
• Member of the US CLIVAR Process Study and Model Improvement (PSMI) Panel, 2016-2019
• Associate Editor, Atmospheric Science Letters, 2015-2018
• Member of the AMS STAC Committee on Coastal Environment, 2011-2018

Agency proposal review panels

• NASA SWOT (2012); DOE ESMD (2020)

WHOI Committee and Service:

• WHOI Physical Oceanography Recruitment Committee for Scientific Staff (2020-2021)
• WHOI High-Performance Computing Strategy Committee (2022-2023)
• WHOI Summer Student Fellowship (SSF) Physical Oceanography Department Coordinator, 2017-2019
• Advisory Committee for the WHOI High-Performance Computing: 2010-2017
• Physical Oceanography Department Weekly Seminar, Organizer, 2010-2011

Meeting Convener:

• Co-chair: Mesoscale and Submesoscale Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions and Influence on Earth’s Climate. AGU Fall Meeting, December 2022
• Co-chair: Prediction and Variability of Air-Sea Interactions: the South Asian Monsoon. ICERM, Brown University, August 2021
• Co-chair: International workshop for mid-latitude air-sea interaction: Advancing Predictive Understanding of Regional Climate Variability and Change across Timescales. Japan, 2021
• Co-chair: Atmospheric and Oceanic Processes Governing the Trade-wind Regions. AGU 2020
• Co-chair, Extratropical oceans and atmosphere, JGPU Meeting, Japan 2020
• Co-chair, Influence of mesoscale and submesoscale ocean-atmosphere interactions on Earth’s climate. Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego, 2020
• Lead Chair: IUGG IAPSO Ocean Boundary Current System, Montreal, 2019
• Organizing Committee: Surface Currents in the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere System Workshop, Feb. 22-23, 2020, Scripps
• Organizing Committee: Atmospheric Convection and Air-Sea Interactions of the Tropical Oceans, May 7-9 2019, NCAR
• Organizing Committee: Sources and Sinks of Ocean Mesoscale Eddy Energy, March 12-14, 2019, FSU
• Co-chair: CLIVAR Climate Process Teams for Developing Improved Parameterization of Atmosphere and Ocean Climate Model Processes: Why, When, Where, and How. AGU 2018
• Lead Chair: Air-Sea Interaction from Tropics to Extratropics: Ocean Mesoscales, Teleconnections, and Climate Predictions, AGU 2018
• Program Chair for 14th Symposium on the Coastal Environment, AMS Annual Meeting, 2016
• Air-sea interactions in coastal environments, AMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, 2015
• Regional climate modeling in the North Pacific, PICES Annual Meeting, Yeosu, 2014
• East Asian Marginal Seas: sea surface temperature variability and ocean-atmosphere process, OSM, Honolulu, 2014
• Climate Trends and Projections in the Coastal Environment, AMS Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, January 2013
• Marine Regional Integrated Assessments: Observations, Predictions, and Uncertainty, WCRP Open Science Conference, Denver, CO, 2011
• Regional and Mesoscale Coupled Air-Sea Modeling, OSM, 2010

RECENT LECTURES, SEMINARS, AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (See the whole list here)

2024

• Improving wave-mediated air-sea momentum flux parameterization; Geophysical Flows: From the Field to the Lab Discussion meeting (January 10 - 12, 2024), Chennai, India, 01/11/2024 pdf

2023

• (Invited) Ocean Mesoscale Air-Sea Interactions: Physics, Impacts, and Role of Surface Waves, AOGS, Singapore, 08/04/2023
• (Invited) Surface waves, aerodynamic roughness & air-sea momentum flux: Mesoscale Air-Sea Interactions & Offshore Wind Energy, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, 07/20/2023
• (Invited) Surface Waves, Aerodynamic Roughness, and Air-Sea Momentum Flux in the Context of Mesoscale and Frontal-Scale Air-Sea Interaction. Mid-latitude Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions: Their Processes and Predictability. Toyama, Japan, 06/16/2023
• Wind-Current Coupling in the Context of Mesoscale and Frontal-Scale Air-Sea Interaction. Odysea winds and currents Webinar, June 6, 2023 pdf
• (Invited) Surface Waves, Aerodynamic Roughness, and Air-Sea Momentum Flux, Japan Geosciences Union (JpGU), May 21, 2023. pdf
• (Invited) Air-Sea Interaction and Offshore Wind energy, Korean Meteorological Agency (KMA), virtual, January 27, 2023 pdf
  2022
• Coupled Modeling of Mesoscale Air-Sea Interaction: Physics, Impacts, and Role of Surface Waves. Seoul National University, Korea, invited, 09/22 pdf
  Ocean Mesoscale Air-Sea Interaction over Gulf Stream: Drivers, Physics, and Influence. US CLIVAR Wither the Gulf Stream Workshop. Wither the Gulf Stream Workshop, 06/22 pdf
  Surface wave impacts on air-sea momentum flux in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean: coupled modeling and bulk formula. Workshop on Air-Sea Interaction and Implications for Offshore Wind Energy, 02/10/2021.