Lia Siegelman

Assistant Professor
lsiegelman@ucsd.edu

As a physical oceanographer, I aim to understand how ocean dynamics impact our climate. I have a penchant for the high-latitudes and a keen interest in understanding how scale interactions affect the dynamics of geophysical fluids. I also study planetary atmospheres. My research leverages a combination of in situ data, remote sensing observations as well as realistic and idealized numerical simulations.

Kylie Kinne

Graduate Student
kykinne@ucsd.edu

I am a PhD student in physical oceanography. I study how icebergs affect fjord circulation both as sources of buoyancy and as mechanical barriers toflow. I’m also interested in the way that glacially-modified water exits fjords and participates in the large-scale overturning circulation. My research uses field observations from Sermilik fjord in combination with numerical modeling techniques.

Lucie Reymondet

Graduate Student
lureymondet@ucsd.edu

I am a PhD student in Applied Ocean Sciences. I am interested in how small-scale dynamicscontribute to heat fluxes between the ocean and atmosphere, how they can be estimated from combining satellite observations, models, and in situ data, and eventually what their impact is on larger-scale weather and climate. My current area of study is the Southern Ocean, which I investigate using a coupled, high resolution ocean-atmosphere simulation ran at NASA/JPL.

Katya Sumwalt

Undergraduate researcher
ksumwalt@ucsd.edu

I am an undergraduate student majoring in oceanic and atmospheric sciences and computational physics. My goal is to better understand submesoscale dynamics in the Southern Ocean through data collected by elephant seals as part of the MEOP project. I am particularly interested in vertical heat transport and understanding how the classical description of submesoscale dynamics deviates from what is seen in empirical data.

Past Lab Members

Graduate Students

  • Félix Vivant (2024, visiting MSc student, now PhD student at LMD, ENS Paris, France)
  • Elisa Carli (2023, visiting graduate student, now postdoc at ESA Centre for Earth Observation, Rome, Italy)

Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Lily Dove (2023-2025, NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow, now Assistant Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology)

Undergraduate Students

  • Victoria Lopez-Villa (2025, GeoPath undergraduate researcher,  San Diego Mesa College)
  • Summer Lenhart (2025, undergraduate researcher, UCSD)