Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Anastasia Romanou

(Research AST, Oceanographic Studies)

Anastasia Romanou's Contact Card & Information.
Email: anastasia.romanou@nasa.gov
Phone: 212.678.5520
Org Code: 611
Address:
NASA/GISS
Mail Code 611
New York, NY 10025
Employer:
NASA

Research Interests


Ocean circulation

Earth Science: Theory & Modeling

Meridional Overturning Circulation and its variability


Global carbon cycle

Earth Science: Theory & Modeling

Ocean heat and carbon uptake


Air-sea interactions and variability

gas-exchanges through the air-sea interface


Modeling

ocean and coupled ocean-atmosphere
General Circulation Models
Earth System Models
 

Positions/Employment


NASA Research Physical Scientist, 611

NASA - Goddard Institute for Space Studies

February 2018 - Present


Adjunct Associate Professor

Dept. of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia Univ., and NASA GISS - New York

2018 - Present


Research Scientist

Dept. of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia Univ., and NASA GISS - New York

2009 - 2018


Research Scientist

Academy of Athens - Greece

2006 - 2009


Postdoctoral Associate

Dept. of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia Univ., and NASA GISS - New York

2003 - 2007


Postdoctoral Associate

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York Univ. - New York

2001 - 2003


Postdoctoral Associate

Univ. Miami and Los Alamos National Laboratory - Florida

1999 - 2001


Research Scientist

Florida State University - Florida

1992 - 1999

Current Projects


NASA-GISS ocean carbon cycle model

(in collaboration with Paul Lerner) adding new components, e.g. oxygen, evaluating carbon uptake, looking at variability at natural and perturbed modes


Subpolar N. Atlantic air-sea fluxes associated with mid-latitude cyclones and their effect on AMOC

(in collaboration with Bruno Tremblay, Joy Romanski and James Williams)


Ocean heat and carbon uptake the ocean and climate feedbacks

(in collaboration with John Marshall, MIT)


Modeling and Observations of Atmospheric Circulation,
Cloud and Aerosol Processes, Ocean Circulation and the Carbon Cycle

(APAM-GISS cooperative agreement, PI)


Machine learning and ocean carbon uptake

in collaboration wit Luke Gloege


Sea Level Change projects and impacts


Exoplanet research

Education


Ph.D., Physical Oceanography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 1999
M. Sc., Oceanography, University of Athens, Greece, 1992
B. A. Physics, University of Athens, Greece, 1989
 

Professional Service


Member of the NASA Earth Science Advisory Committee