Claudie Beaulieu, Principal Investigator

Claudie is an associate professor in the Ocean Sciences Department at UC Santa Cruz. Her research aims to quantify ocean & climate variability and change through a data science lens. She received a NSF CAREER award to investigate space-time variations in the pace of temperature change. Before moving to Santa Cruz, she spent five years in the School of Ocean and Earth Sciences at the University of Southampton in the UK. She did a postdoc with Jorge Sarmiento at Princeton University and worked with Taha Ouarda at INRS Eau Terre Environnement and Ousmane Seidou at University of Ottawa during her PhD.

Email: beaulieu at ucsc dot edu
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Dongran Zhai, Research Fellow

Dongran is a Research Fellow in Ocean Sciences at UCSC. She received a PhD in Ocean Sciences from UCSC in May 2025. She is working on trends in satellite ocean color using Bayesian space-time modeling. She was awarded a scholarship from the China Scholarship Council to conduct her research.

Email: dzhai at ucsc dot edu
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Adelicia Johnson, PhD student

Adelicia is a PhD student in Ocean Sciences at UCSC. She joined the group after receiving a Bachelor’s in Geology from UC Davis and working as an analytical chemist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Adelicia is working on detection and attribution of regional changes in the pace of surface temperature.

Email: adfjohns at ucsc dot edu

Nicolas Chavez, Environmental Sciences major student

Nico is an undergraduate student in Environmental Sciences at UCSC. He has won an Undergraduate Research in Science and Technology Award and a Richard Libby Award to monitor changes in the rate of surface warming. He is developing a Shiny app to visualize regional changes in the pace of surface warming.

Email: ninchave at ucsc dot edu

Lab alumni

Graduated students

Courtney Stratton (Master’s)
Katerina Giamalaki (Postdoc, PhD, Master’s), now at Moody’s Analytics, London
Delphine Lobelle (PhD), now at Fugro
Stephanie Allen (PhD), now at Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Matthew Hammond (PhD), now at National Oceanography Centre Southampton
Renata Stella Khouri (PhD), now at University of Cambridge
Gayatri Dudeja (PhD)
Andrew Gravelle (PhD)
Monica Hanley (Master’s), now at British Oceanographic Data Centre
Lindan Zhang (Master’s)
Douglas Warden (Master’s)

Research interns

Kimberly Porras, Environmental Sciences major class of 2024, work-study
Courtney Stratton, Environmental Sciences major class of 2023, awarded the outstanding ESCI student 2023, recipient of a Undergraduate Research in Science and Technology Award
Kathryn Anderson, Environmental Sciences major class of 2022, awarded the outstanding ESCI student 2022, UC Leads student, recipient of a Undergraduate Research in Science and Technology Award and Koret Scholars, now graduate student at CSU
Amy Wu, Environmental Sciences major class of 2022, recipient of a Undergraduate Research in Science and Technology Award
Valeria Galindo-Eguiarte, UC Leads student
Kamil Kisielewicz, Computer sciences class of 2021, recipient of a Undergraduate Research in Science and Technology Award
Bruno Lopez, Earth Sciences class of 2020, recipient of a Student Research & Education Award from the Seymour Center and completed a senior thesis with Honors, now a data scientist at PG&E
Logan Grady, Environmental Sciences class of 2020, now graduate student at Moss Landing Marine Lab
Anthony Mazzini, Environmental Sciences class of 2020, recipient of the Gunderson Family Research Award in Coastal Sustainability, now at Minnesota GreenCorps
Harriet Cole, research assistant, now at Marine Scotland