PEOPLE

Paola Rizzoli

Academic Preparation:

Lyceum "Benedetti," Venice, Italy B.S. Physics and Mathematics, highest honors, 1963
University of Padua, Italy, Ph.D., Physics, summa cum laude, 1968
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, Ph.D., Physical Oceanography, 1978

Appointments:

Professor, Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, MIT, 1981-present
MIT Director of the Joint Program in Oceanography and Ocean Engineering between MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), 1997-present

Selected Honors:

Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 2006
Fellow, American Meteorological Society, 2002
Winner of the 1998 Masi of the Italian government for excellence in environmental sciences

Four Recent Publications:

P.Lionello-, P. Malanotte-Rizzoli, R. Boscolo, P. Alpert, V. Artale, L. Li, J.Luterbacher, W. May, R. Trigo, M. Tsimplis, U. Ulbrich, E. Xoplai, "The Mediterranean climate: an overview of the main characteristics and issues," in Mediterranean Climate Variability, Elsevier Publishing Company Oceanographic Series, P. Lionello, P. Malanotte-Rizzoli, R. Boscolo, eds, 1-25, 2006
M. Jochum, R. Murtugudde, R. Ferrari and P. Malanotte-Rizzoli, "The impact of horizontal resolution on the tropical heat budget in an Atlantic ocean model," J. Climate, 18, 841-851, 2005
M. Jochum and P. Malanotte-Rizzoli, "A new theory for the generation of the Equatorial Subsurface Countercurrents," J. Phys. Oceanogr., 34, 755-771, 2004
M. Jochum, P. Malanotte-Rizzoli and A. Busalacchi, "Tropical instability waves in the Atlantic Ocean," Ocean Modeling, 7,145-163, 2004

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