Professor Dr. Irina Marinov

Biography

Irina Marinov is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her PhD in Atmospheric Oceanic Sciences from Princeton University in 2005 after completing a Bachelor of Arts in Physics and Mathematics at Middlebury College in 1998. Her postdoctoral research was conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and she held a NOAA Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Since joining the University of Pennsylvania in 2009, she transitioned from a lecturer to an Assistant Professor in 2012. Her research focuses on the interactions between ocean and atmosphere in the context of global climate change, particularly how the ocean controls atmospheric pCO2 and the feedback mechanisms involved in climate change. She is also interested in the modeling of phytoplankton evolution and observing oceanic biological processes through space technology. Irina has taught various courses, including Global Climate Change and Ocean Atmosphere Dynamics.

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