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HYODAE SEO CV
Associate Scientist with Tenure
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
Webpage: http://hseo.whoi.edu

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

2018.07 – Present: 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/

CURRENT PROJECTS

WHOI Francis E. Fowler IV Ocean and Climate Fellow (2022-2023): Western boundary currents and air-sea interaction: towards skillful predictive understanding and modeling of extreme storms and short-term climate events.
NSF PO (2022-2026): Improving understanding of coupled impacts of oceans and waves on air-sea fluxes in the US Northeast Coast. PIs: Seo, Sauvage, Edson and Clayson. 830K to WHOI
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, Edson, Clayson (all at WHOI), Braun & Shi (NASA GSFC).
DOE WFIP3 (2021-2016): Improving High Resolution Offshore Wind Resource Assessments and Forecasts using Observations in the MA/RI Lease Areas. Kirincich et al.
NSF PO/CLD (2020-2023): Collaborative Research: Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Feedbacks Affecting California Coastal Climate: Current Conditions and Future Projections. PIs: Seo (WHOI) and Miller (SIO).
NOAA CVP (2020-2023): Regional multi-year prediction for the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf. PIs: Kwon, Seo, Chen (all at WHOI), Frantantoni, Saba, and Alexander (all at NOAA)
NOAA CVP (2019-2022): Coupled Ocean-atmosphere interaction mediated by ocean mesoscale eddies in the Northwestern Tropical Atlantic Ocean. Seo and Clayson (all at WHOI)
NOAA CVP (2017-2021): Upper ocean processes in the Maritime Continent and their impact on the air-sea interaction and MJO predictability. PI: Shinoda (TAMU-CC), Seo (WHOI), Wang (NCEP).
ONR MISO-BoB (2017-2021): Coupled Air-Sea Interactions in the Bay of Bengal: Dynamics and Predictability of Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillation. PI: Seo.

AWARDS AMD HONORS

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

MIT/WHOI JOINT PROGRAM TEACHING

Fall 2021: Guest Lecture on “Mesoscale Air-Sea Interaction”. 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

Postdocs

Dr. Cesar Sauvage (2020-). ATOMIC coupled air-sea-wave modeling in the tropical northwestern Atlantic Ocean
Dr. John Steffen (2019-2021). MJO Predictability in the Maritime Continent
Dr. Rhys Parfitt (2016-2018, now Assistant Professor at Florida State University)

Students

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. Thesis Committee Chair for Hanyuan Liu (MIT-WHOI Joint Program), 2021
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: US CLIVAR Air-Sea Interaction Working Group, 2019-Present
Member US CLIVAR Air-Sea Transition Zone Study Group, 2022-Present
AMS STAC Committee on Air-Sea Interaction, 2019-Present
US CLIVAR Process Study and Model Improvement (PSMI) Panel Member, 2016-2019
Associate Editor, Atmospheric Science Letters, 2015-2018
AMS STAC Committee on Coastal Environment, 2011-2018

Agency proposal review panels

NASA SWOT (2012); DOE ESMD (2020)

Reviewer:

Atmospheric Science Letters, Bulletin of American Meteorological Society, Climate Dynamics, Continental Shelf Research, Dynamics of Atmosphere and Oceans, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Journal of Climate, Journal of Marine Systems, Journal of Physical Oceanography, Progress in Oceanography, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmosphere/Oceans, Nature Geosciences, Nature Communications, Ocean Dynamics, Ocean Modelling, Remote Sensing, Scientific ReportsProposal Reviewer:

NOAA (CPO); NSF (OCE Physical Oceanography, ATM Climate and Large-scale Dynamics, ATM Physical and Dynamic Meteorology); The Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT); The French Research Agency (ANR); Programme on National Monsoon Mission (India), FONDECYT Program (Chile)

WHOI Committee and Service:

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: 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

LECTURES, SEMINARS, AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2022

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.

2021

Mesoscale Air-Sea Interaction Working Group: Motivation, Science goals, and Recommendations. US CLIVAR POS Panel Meeting, 08/21/2021
Mesoscale/Frontal-scale Air-Sea Interaction: Review. 12.860 Guest Lecture. 5/13/2021
Impacts of ocean currents on the extratropical storm track through the “relative wind” effect. International Workshop on Midlatitude Air-Sea Interaction. 06/10/2021
Impacts of ocean-atmosphere coupled feedback on weather and climate. NOAA Priorities for Weather Research (PWR) Observations and Data Assimilation Task Team Symposium. 07/08/2021
Mesoscale Air-Sea Interaction Working Group Motivation, Science goals, and Recommendations. US CLIVAR POS Panel. 08/02/2021

2020

Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions over Oceanic Boundary Currents. Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego, February 2020
Small-scale upper ocean processes in the Bay of Bengal: Do they matter to air-sea interaction and monsoon? MISO-BoB Discussion Meeting, Ahmedabad, India, January 2020

2019

Review of Mesoscale and frontal-scale air-sea interactions: physics, diagnostics, and impacts. US CLIVAR Summit, Long Beach, Aug. 6, 2019.
Coupled ocean-atmosphere interaction mediated by the ocean mesoscale eddies in the Northwest Tropical Atlantic Ocean. ATOMIC PI Meeting, Boulder, July 29, 2019
Coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions over the oceanic boundary currents. IAPSO IUGG, Montreal, July 13, 2019.
Distinct influence of coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions mediated by sea surface temperature and current. Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, March 5, 2019.
Coupled ocean-atmosphere interaction mediated by SST and surface current: Distinctive impacts and scale dependence. OFES Meeting, Japan, Feb 28, 2019.
Coupled effects of ocean current on wind stress in the Bay of Bengal: EKE and ML stratification. MISO-BoB Meeting, ICTS, Bangalore, Feb 22-23, 2019
Coupled ocean-atmosphere interaction mediated by SST and surface current: Distinctive impacts and scale dependence. OFES Meeting, Japan, Feb 28-Mar 1, 2019

2018

Modulation of wind work by surface current; eddy energetics and mixed layer stratification in the Bay of Bengal. MISO-BoB meeting, APL/UW, November 8-9, 2018
My air-sea coupling study at Scripps. Multi-modal Oscillation in Ocean Basin in honor of Art Miller. La Jolla, August 24, 20148
Distinct Influence of air-sea coupling mediated by SST and current, Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, February, 2018
Coupled modeling of air-sea interactions and MISO in the Bay of Bengal. ICO-BoB2. Columbo, Sri Lanka, Jan. 10-11, 2018

2014

Eddy-wind interaction in the California Current System – Eddy kinetic energy and Ekman pumping, Korean Insitute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST), Dec. 19, 2014
Eddy-wind interaction in the California Current System â€” Eddy kinetic energy and Ekman pumping, Kyushu Univ., Dec. 15, 2014
Coupled impacts of the diurnal cycle of sea surface temperature on the Madden-Julian Oscillation, International Regional Spectral Meeting, JAMSTEC, Japan, Nov. 27-28, 2014
Coupled impacts of the diurnal cycle of sea surface temperature on the Madden-Julian Oscillation, Korean Oceanographic Society Meeting, Jinhae, Korea, Nov. 7, 2014
Regional coupled modeling of eddy-wind interaction in the California Current System: Eddy kinetic energy and Ekman pumping, PICES Annual Meeting, Yeosu, Korea, Oct. 21, 2014
Effect of Eddy-Wind Interaction on Ekman pumping and Eddy Kinetic Energy in the California Current System: A Regional Coupled Modeling Study, OFES International Workshop, Aizu University, Oct. 2-3, 2014
Coupled impacts of the diurnal cycle of sea surface temperature on the Madden-Julian Oscillation, Kyushu Univ, Sep. 26, 2014
Mesoscale Air-Sea Interactions, WHOI Summer Lecture Series, Jul. 28, 2014
Effect of the East Asian Marginal Sea SST variability on the North Pacific atmospheric circulation: East/Japan Sea case study, European Geophysical Union, Vienna, Austria, Apr. 28 – May 1, 2014
Surface wind response to Arctic sea ice in a regional weather model, WHOI Physical Oceanography Seminar, Apr. 15, 2014
Effect of the East/Japan Sea SST variability on the North Pacific atmospheric circulation, Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, Feb. 24-28, 2014

2013

Dynamics of near-surface winds over ocean eddies and sea ice: Regional modeling studies of tropical and arctic atmospheres, University of Rhode Island, GSO Seminar, Dec. 6, 2013
Predictability and Coupled Dynamics of MJO during DYNAMO: Role of diurnal cycle in the intensity of MJO2, ONR Physical Oceanography Peer Review Program, Monterey, Sep. 23-24, 2013
(Invited) Ocean mesoscale eddies, air-sea interactions and regional climate: regional coupled climate modeling, APEC Climate Center, Busan, Sep. 13, 2013
(Invited) Effect of East/Japan Sea SST variability on the North Pacific atmospheric circulation, International Workshop on Regional Climate Models-II. Busan, Korea, Sep. 10-12, 2013
Dynamical response of the Arctic surface winds to sea ice variability, Climate Implications of Frontal Scale Air-Sea Interaction. NCAR Aug. 5-7, 2013 Recorded Presentation
Dynamical response of the Arctic atmospheric boundary layer process to uncertainties in sea ice concentration, AMS Polar Meeting, Seattle WA, Apr. 29 – May 1, 2013. Recorded Presentation
What determines the spatial pattern in summer upwelling trends on the U.S. West Coast? AMS Annual Meeting, Austin, Jan. 9, 2013. Recorded Presentation

2012

Role of Ocean Mesoscale Eddies in Air-Sea Interaction and Regional Climate Change. MIT MSEAS Seminar. Nov. 16. 2012. MIT.
Role of the East/Japan Sea SST variability in the atmospheric circulation in the North Pacific. AMS 18th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction, Boston, Jul. 12, 2012. Recorded Presentation
(Invited) Mesoscale air-sea interactions and regional climate change: the Tropical Instability Waves example, KORDI, May 30, 2012
Role of the East/Japan Sea SST variability in the atmospheric circulation in the North Pacific. KORDI-WHOI Workshop, May 25, 2012
(Invited) Role of the East-Asian marginal sea SST in the regional predictability and the North Pacific climate variability Japan Geoscience Union Meeting, May 23, 2012
Regional modeling of ocean-atmosphere interaction: from tropics to mid-latitudes. Kyushu University, Japan, May 21, 2012

2011

Effect of Seasonal Freshwater Forcing on the Indian Monsoon: A Regional Coupled Modeling Study Bay of Bengal Monsoon Workshop, WHOI, November 16-18, 2011
Mesoscale air-sea interactions and regional climate change: Tropical Instability Waves in a regional coupled model. Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. October 14, 2011
(Invited) Regional coupled downscaling: Role of mesoscale ocean eddies in climate- Tropical Instability Waves. International Workshop Development and Application of Regional Climate Models. Korea. October 11-12
Tropical Instability Waves in the Atlantic: Air-sea interactions and climate change, Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Land Processes in the Tropical Atlantic, Miami, Mar 24, 2011

2010

Regional coupled downscaling of climate and weather, NRL-Stennis Space Center, May 26, 2010
Regional coupled downscaling: mesoscale air-sea interaction and regional climate change, UT-Austin, April 26, 2010
Regional coupled-downscaling of climate and weather, WHOI, March 23, 2010
Applications of a regional coupled model to studies of global warming and hurricane-ocean interaction, NCAR, March 04, 2010

2009

Downscaling Global Warming with a Regional Ocean-Atmosphere Model over the Tropical Atlantic Role of equatorial ocean dynamics, AGU Fall, 2009
Tropical Atlantic response to global warming: Equatorial upwelling and tropical instability waves, International RSM Workshop, Maui, Aug 4, 2009
Seasonal effects of Indian Ocean freshwater forcing in a regional coupled model-Barrier Layers and Indian Monsoon, IPRC Annual Symposium, Jun 2, 2009
Mesoscale air-sea interaction and feedback in the western Arabian Sea: CLIVAR Western Boundary Current Workshop, Phoenix, Jan. 15, 2009
Mesoscale air-sea interaction and feedback in the western Arabian Sea: AMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Jan. 14, 2009

2008

Overview of the Scripps Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Regional Model: ONR Coupled Modeling Workshop, Ballston, VA, Dec 12, 2008
Mesoscale ocean-atmosphere interaction due to the ocean mesoscale eddies: Physical Oceanography Dissertation Symposium V, October 6, 2008
Coupled modeling of mesoscale ocean-atmosphere interactions: tropical instability waves and ocean eddies: NOAA C&GC Summer Institute, July 14, 2008
Mesoscale ocean-atmosphere interaction in the western Arabian sea: Dynamic and thermodynamic feedback to the ocean: NCAR CGD Seminar, May 23, 2008
Mesoscale coupled ocean-atmosphere Interaction; Tropical Instability Waves and Atmospheric Feedback: ESSIC Seminar, University of Maryland. January 18, 2008

2002-2007

Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction in a High-Resolution Regional Coupled Model: Oceanography Seminar, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Aug. 23, 2007
Effect of Coupling of Wind and Current on Tropical Instability Waves in the Atlantic Ocean: CLIVAR Tropical Atlantic Variability Meeting, Paris, Oct. 18, 2006
Tropical Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction in a Regional Coupled High-Resolution GCM: NCAR CGD Seminar, Aug. 23, 2006
Regional Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in the Eastern Pacific: TIWs, Mesoscale Eddies and Gap Winds: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Seminar (given by Art Miller), Apr. 2006
Air-sea coupling associated with the TIWs; high-resolution coupled-model study: Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, Feb. 24, 2006
Atmospheric Boundary Layer Response to SST in the Eastern Pacific: AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 2005
Tropical Instability Waves and Ocean-Atmosphere Feedback: ROMS/TOMS User Workshop, La Jolla, Oct. 2005
Regional Ocean-Atmospheric Feedback in the Eastern Pacific; Gap Winds, TIWs, and Mesoscale Eddies: UCLA AOS 270 Seminar, UCLA, Oct. 12, 2005
Regional Air-Sea Interaction in the Eastern Pacific: 6th International RSM workshop, New York, Aug., 2005
Development of the Regional Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model: 85th AMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, Jan. 2005
Preliminary Simulation of the Regional Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Model in the Southern California Coastal Region: Regional Spectral Model Workshop, Yonsei Univerisity, Seoul, Korea, Aug. 2004

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