Biography
Galen McKinley is a Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Professor McKinley is an ocean, carbon cycle, and climate scientist who studies the physical, chemical, and ecological drivers of the ocean’s anthropogenic carbon sink at regional to global scales. Her research tools include models of the ocean and climate, in situ and satellite datasets, and machine learning.
Professor McKinley earned a BS in Civil Engineering from Rice University and a PhD in Climate Physics and Chemistry from MIT. From 2004-2017, she was a Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. She is active in scientific service, including at the National Academies of Sciences and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. In 2020, the American Geophysical Union presented her with the Ocean Science Voyager Award for her leadership in the scientific community.