Summary
Cheryl Harrison is an assistant professor and biophysical ocean modeler with nine years of research and academic experience studying ocean circulation impacts on marine biology and extreme climate-forcing events like nuclear winter and asteroid impacts. She has held positions at LSU, UT Rio Grande Valley, NCAR, and several research universities, bringing deep expertise in Lagrangian coherent structures, larval transport, and shelf hypoxia modeling. Her work blends theoretical fluid dynamics with applied ecological forecasting, often using numerical models to link mesoscale processes to biological outcomes. Based in Baton Rouge, she maintains an active public-facing science communication presence and a research portfolio that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries between oceanography, planetary impacts, and climate perturbations.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz