Chelle Gentemann, Ph.D.

Chelle is a passionate advocate for open science, open source software, and inclusivity. As a physical oceanographer focused on remote sensing, she has worked for over 25 years on retrievals of ocean temperature from space and using that data to understand how the ocean impacts our lives. Her more recent research focuses on interdisciplinary science using cloud computing, open source software algorithm development, air-sea fluxes, biophysical interactions, and upper ocean physical processes. She currently is on an Interagency Personnel Appointment (IPA) appointment to NASA headquarters, and has served on scientific committees, notably as co-chair of a standing committee for the National Academy of Sciences. Chelle has also presented to a federal house committee on NASA's implementation of scientific community priorities.

Selected publications

• Gentemann, CL, CA Clayson, S Brown, T Lee, R Parfitt, JT Farrar, M Bourassa, PJ Minnett, H Seo, ST Gille, and V Zlotnicki. 2020. FluxSat: Measuring the ocean-atmosphere turbulent exchange of heat and moisture from space. Remote Sensing 12:1796. [pdf]

• Gentemann et al. 2017. Satellite sea surface temperatures along the West Coast of the United States during the 2014-2016 northeast Pacific marine heat wave. Geophysical Research Letters [pdf]

Connect

Twitter: @chellegentemann
Github: cgentemann