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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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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

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Samarth Jayadev, PhD student

Samarth is a PhD student in Ocean Sciences at UCSC. He earned his B.S. in Marine Science from California State University, Monterey Bay and is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program awardee. His research focuses on developing ecologically relevant approaches to characterize and predict marine heatwave events.

Email: sjayadev 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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Lab alumni

Graduated students and postdocs

  • Dongran Zhai (PhD), now postdoc at Tsinghua University
  • Courtney Stratton (Master’s), now at Integral Consulting
  • Grace Pearsall (Master’s)
  • Katerina Giamalaki (Postdoc, PhD, Master’s), now at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
  • Delphine Lobelle (PhD), now at Fugro
  • Stephanie Allen (PhD), now at Plymouth Marine Laboratory
  • Matthew Hammond (PhD), now at CEAZA, Chile
  • Renata Stella Khouri (PhD), now at University of Cambridge
  • Gayatri Dudeja (PhD), now at Full Stack
  • Andrew Gravelle (PhD), now at MetOcean Norway
  • Harriet Cole (Postdoc), now at Marine Scotland
  • Monica Hanley (Master’s), now at British Oceanographic Data Centre
  • Lindan Zhang (Master’s)
  • Douglas Warden (Master’s)

Undergraduate researchers

  • Nicolas Chavez, Environmental Sciences major class of 2026, recipient of a Undergraduate Research in Science and Technology Award and a Richard Libby Award, now at PollenPal
  • Kimberly Porras, Environmental Sciences major class of 2024, work-study, now at Tec Accutite
  • Courtney Stratton, Environmental Sciences major class of 2023, awarded the outstanding ESCI student 2023, recipient of a Undergraduate Research in Science and Technology Award and a Richard Libby Award, now at Integral Consulting
  • 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, now at PG&E
  • Valeria Galindo-Eguiarte, UC Leads student
  • Kamil Kisielewicz, Computer sciences class of 2021, recipient of a Undergraduate Research in Science and Technology Award, now at Citadel
  • 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 at Intersect
  • Logan Grady, Environmental Sciences class of 2020, now at MBARI
  • Anthony Mazzini, Environmental Sciences class of 2020, recipient of the Gunderson Family Research Award in Coastal Sustainability, now at Minnesota GreenCorps
  • Chloe Williams, Oceanography BSc (Southampton), now at Liberty Special Markets
  • Manaf Alkuzhaei, Oceanography BSc (Southampton), now at Arabian Gulf University
  • William Stokes, Oceanography BSc (Southampton)
  • Maxime Jullian, Oceanography BSc (Southampton), now at Ibex Earth
  • Sam Faithfull, Oceanography BSc (Southampton), now at Jan de Nul Group
  • Nathan Serota, Geosciences major (Princeton), now at Blue Owl Capital
  • Julia Branderberg, Visiting student (Princeton), now at Swiss re
  • Brian Huang, Computer sciences major (Princeton)