Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, September 2005
Ph.D. Physical Oceanography
Dissertation: North Atlantic Climate Variability in a Hierarchy of Ocean Models
Ocean University of Qingdao, Qingdao, China, July 2000
M.S. Physical Oceanography
Thesis: Long-term Predictions of the Storm Surge Floodings in Huanghe River Delta (in Chinese; English abstract).
Ocean University of Qingdao, Qingdao, China, July 1997
B.S. Oceanography
Bin Zhao
(SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMER/ANALYST)
Org Code: 610.1
NASA/GSFCMail Code: 610.1
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer: SCIENCE APPLICATION INTL CORP
Positions/Employment
Postdoctorate Researcher
Los Alamos National Laboratory - Los Alamos, NM
May 2006 - May 2009
Developing the upper ocean version of the POP2
Senior Scientist – Ocean Modeling
SAIC - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
May 2009 - Present
Sea-ice Model Development
Assessment of sea ice simulations in GEOS-5 coupled model
Land-ice Model Development and Coupling
Education
Professional Societies
AGU
2007 - Present
Publications
Refereed
Cullather, R. I., S. M. Nowicki, B. Zhao, and L. S. Koenig. 2016. A Characterization of Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt and Runoff in Contemporary Reanalyses and a Regional Climate Model Front. Earth Sci. 4 (10): [10.3389/feart.2016.00010]