Elizabeth Yankovsky

Elizabeth Yankovsky joins the FAS as Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Elizabeth received her BS in physics and geophysics from the University of South Carolina in 2015 and her PhD in atmospheric and oceanic sciences from Princeton University in 2020. As a graduate student, Elizabeth worked within the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory on improving climate models, Arctic oceanography, and turbulent processes in the ocean. From 2020 to 2023 she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, where she participated in a multi-institutional project aimed at studying ocean eddies. She then spent a year in Boulder, Colorado working at [C]Worthy – a research organization aimed at developing software and knowledge to enable safe & effective ocean-based carbon dioxide removal. Elizabeth’s research uses modeling and theoretical approaches to understand the role of ocean turbulence in setting the state of the physical and biological systems within the ocean and broader climate. She is also interested in applying oceanographic modeling to inform geoengineering projects such as marine carbon dioxide removal.