Education
Ph.D. student, Earth and Space Sciences
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Ph.D. advisor: Eric Steig
2017 - present
B.S. Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Honors Program, Cooperative education program
Research advisor: Kim Cobb
2012 - 2017
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Ph.D. advisor: Eric Steig
2017 - present
B.S. Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Honors Program, Cooperative education program
Research advisor: Kim Cobb
2012 - 2017
Publications
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2022
2022 2021 2021 2020 |
Hills, B.H., Christianson, K., Hoffman, A., Fudge, T.J., Holschuh, N., Kahle, E.C., Conway, H., Christian, J., Horlings, A., O’Connor, G.K., Steig, E.J. Geophysics and thermodynamics at South Pole Lake indicate stability and a regionally thawed bed. (2022). Geophysical Research Letters, 49, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL096218.
Hitt, N.T., Sayani, H.R., Atwood, A.R., Grothe, P.R., Maupin, C., O’Connor, G.K., Walter, R., Gebregiorgis, D., Hardt, M., Lu, Y., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H., Cobb, K.M. Central equatorial Pacific warming and freshening in the 20th century: Insights from a coral ensemble approach. (2022). Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2021GL094051. doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094051 O’Connor, G.K. Steig, E.J., Hakim, G.J. Strengthening Southern Hemisphere westerlies and Amundsen Sea Low deepening over the 20th century revealed by proxy-data assimilation. (2021). Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL095999. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL095999 O’Connor, G.K., Cobb, K.M., Sayani, H.R., Atwood, A.R., Grothe, P.R., Stevenson, S., Baum, J., Chen, T., Claar, C., Hitt, N., Lynch-Stieglitz, J., Mortlock, R., Schmidt, G., Walter, R. Coral oxygen isotopic records capture the 2015/16 El Niño event in the central equatorial Pacific. (2021). Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL094036. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094036 Grothe, P. R., Cobb, K. M., Liguori, G., Di Lorenzo, E., Capotondi, A., Lu, Y., Cheng, H., Edwards, R. L., Southon, J. R., Santos, G. M., Deocampo, D. M., Lynch-Stieglitz, J., Chen, T., Sayani, H. R., Thompson, D. M., Conroy, J. L., Moore, A. L., Townsend, K., Hagos, M., O’Connor, G., Toth, L. T. (2019). Enhanced El Niño–Southern Oscillation Variability in Recent Decades. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(7). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083906 |
Awards
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2017 - 2021
2017 - 2021 2021 2021 2019 2017 2017 2012 - 2017 2012 |
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (3 year RA)
Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Fellowship ($18,000) Boeing International Research Fellowship (1 quarter RA abroad) UW Earth and Space Sciences Peter Misch Fellowship (1 quarter RA) Best Student Talk, West Antarctic Ice Sheet Workshop UW Top Scholar Award (1 quarter RA) Georgia Tech President's Undergraduate Research Salary Award (1 semester RA) Zell Miller Scholarship (100% tuition covered) NSF Mentoring through Critical Transition Points (MCTP) Scholarship ($2,000) |
Teaching Experience
Fall 2020 ESS 431/505 Principles of Glaciology
Teaching assistant (shared appointment) and guest lecturer
Spring 2020 ESS 102 Space and Space Travel
Teaching assistant
2013 - 2015 Yoga instructor and instructor trainer
Georgia Tech Campus Recreation Center
Teaching assistant (shared appointment) and guest lecturer
Spring 2020 ESS 102 Space and Space Travel
Teaching assistant
2013 - 2015 Yoga instructor and instructor trainer
Georgia Tech Campus Recreation Center
Leadership and Service
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2022
2019 - 2021 2020 - 2021 2021 2020 2018 2018 |
Reviewer, Nature Communications Earth and Environment
Earth and Space Sciences DEI Committee graduate representative College of the Environment peer mentor Undergraduate research mentor Project: Geothermal flux constraints at Hercules Dome, Antarctica Earth and Space Sciences JEDI reading group co-founder Cryosphere session chair, Graduate Climate Conference 2018 Planning committee member, Graduate Climate Conference 2018 |
