Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA
2017-2022, Ph.D., Physical Oceanography
Columbia University, New York, NY
2013-2017, B.A., Earth Science and Mathematics
Southern Ocean dynamics, air-sea-ice interactions, global carbon cycle, biophysical interactions, large-scale ocean circulation, submesoscale variability
2023-2024 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award, Department of State
2022 Jean Fort Dissertation Prize, UC San Diego
2022-2024 NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship
2021 Outstanding Student Presentation Award, EGU General Assembly
2020-2022 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation Fellowship
2020 Chateaubriand Fellowship, French Embassy to the U.S.
2019 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellowship, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
2017-2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
2017 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship (declined)
2017 Walter C. Pitman III Award, Columbia University
2016 Young Investigator Award, Columbia University
2016 Summer Student Fellowship, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Prend, C.J., G.A. MacGilchrist, G.E. Manucharyan, R.Q. Pang, R. Moorman, A.F. Thompson, S.M. Griffies, M.R. Mazloff, L.D. Talley, S.T. Gille (2024). Ross Gyre variability modulates oceanic heat supply toward the West Antarctic continental shelf, Communications Earth & Environment, 5. doi: 10.1038/s43247-024-01207-y
Sauvé, J., A.R. Gray, C.J. Prend, S.M. Bushinsky, S.C. Riser (2023). Carbon outgassing in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current supported by Ekman transport from the sea ice zone in an observation-based mixed-layer budget, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128. doi: 10.1029/2023JC019815
Lévy, M., D. Couespel, C. Haëck, M.G. Keerthi, I. Mangolte, C.J. Prend (2023). Impact of fine-scale currents on biogeochemical cycles in a changing ocean, Annual Review of Marine Science, 16. doi: 10.1146/annurev-marine-020723-020531
Brand, S.V., C.J. Prend, L.D. Talley (2023). Modification of North Atlantic Deep Water by Pacific/Upper Circumpolar Deep Water in the Argentine Basin, Geophysical Research Letters, 50. doi: 10.1029/2022GL099419
Keerthi, M.G., C.J. Prend, O. Aumont, M. Lévy (2022). Annual variations in phytoplankton biomass driven by small-scale physical processes, Nature Geoscience, 15, 1027-1033. doi: 10.1038/s41561-022-01057-3
Prend, C.J., A.R. Gray, L.D. Talley, S.T. Gille, F.A. Haumann, K.S. Johnson, S.C. Riser, I. Rosso, J. Sauvé, J.L. Sarmiento (2022). Indo-Pacific sector dominates Southern Ocean carbon outgassing, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36. doi: 10.1029/2021GB007226
Prend, C.J., M.G. Keerthi, M. Lévy, O. Aumont, S.T. Gille, L.D. Talley (2022). Sub-seasonal forcing drives year-to-year variations of Southern Ocean primary productivity, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36. doi: 10.1029/2022GB007329
Prend, C.J., J.M. Hunt, M.R. Mazloff, S.T. Gille, L.D. Talley (2022). Controls on the boundary between thermally and non-thermally driven pCO2 regimes in the South Pacific, Geophysical Research Letters, 49. doi: 10.1029/2021GL095797
Prend, C.J., G.R. Flierl, K.M. Smith, A.K. Kaminski (2021). Parameterizing eddy transport of biogeochemical tracers, Geophysical Research Letters, 48. doi: 10.1029/2021GL094405
von Berg, L., C.J. Prend, E.C. Campbell, M.R. Mazloff, L.D. Talley, S. T. Gille (2020). Weddell Sea phytoplankton blooms modulated by sea ice variability and polynya formation. Geophysical Research Letters, 47. doi: 10.1029/2020GL087954
Uchida, T., D. Balwada, R. Abernathey, C.J. Prend, E. Boss, S.T. Gille (2019). Southern Ocean phytoplankton blooms observed by biogeochemical floats. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124, 7328-7343. doi: 10.1029/2019JC015355
Prend, C.J., S.T. Gille, L.D. Talley, B.G. Mitchell, I. Rosso, M.R. Mazloff (2019). Physical drivers of phytoplankton bloom initiation in the Southern Ocean's Scotia Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124, 5811-5826. doi: 10.1029/2019JC015162
Weller, R.A., J.T. Farrar, H. Seo, C.J. Prend, D. Sengupta, J. Sree Lekha, M. Ravichandran, R. Venkatsen (2018). Moored observations of the surface meteorology and air-sea fluxes in the northern Bay of Bengal in 2015. Journal of Climate, 32, 549-573. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0413.1
Prend, C.J., H. Seo, R.A. Weller, J.T Farrar (2018). Impact of freshwater plumes on intraseasonal upper ocean variability in the Bay of Bengal. Deep Sea Research II, 161, 63-71. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2018.09.007
Spatiotemporal variability of submesoscale dynamics in the Southern Ocean seasonal ice zone, Ocean Sciences Meeting, Feb. 2024, oral.
Pathways of ocean heat transport to the Antarctic Ice Sheet, Comer Climate Conference, Oct. 2023, oral.
Sea ice-ocean interactions in Southern Ocean marginal ice zones, UW Program on Climate Change (PCC) Summer Institute, Sep. 2023, oral.
Seasonal variability of submesoscale dynamics in Southern Ocean marginal ice zones, Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) Symposium, Aug. 2023, poster.
Impact of submesoscale dynamics on ocean biogeochemistry in a changing climate, US Climate Variability and Predictability Program (CLIVAR) Summit, Aug. 2023, oral.
Subpolar gyre variability modulates oceanic heat delivery to the Antarctic continental shelf, Gordon Research Conference on Polar Marine Science, Mar. 2023, poster.
Remote sources of oceanic heat delivery to the Antarctic continental shelf, AGU Fall Meeting, Dec. 2022, oral.
Seasonal variability of deep chlorophyll maxima in an oligotrophic regime, Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling (SOCCOM) Annual Meeting, Jun. 2022, oral.
Year-to-year variations of Southern Ocean primary productivity driven by sub-seasonal forcing, EGU General Assembly, May 2022, oral.
Sub-seasonal forcing at eddy scales drives interannual variability of Southern Ocean primary productivity, Ocean Sciences Meeting, Feb. 2022, oral.
Indo-Pacific sector dominates Southern Ocean carbon outgassing, Graduate Climate Conference, Oct. 2021, oral.
Boundary between regimes of pCO2 seasonality in the South Pacific, Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling (SOCCOM) Annual Meeting, Jun. 2021, oral.
Zonal asymmetry of Southern Ocean air-sea carbon fluxes, EGU General Assembly, Apr. 2021, vPICO.
Phytoplankton blooms in the Weddell Sea seasonal ice zone, Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling (SOCCOM) Annual Meeting, Jun. 2020, oral.
Zonal asymmetries in Southern Ocean primary productivity and carbon uptake, Ocean Sciences Meeting, Feb. 2020, poster.
Parameterizing turbulent transport of reactive tracers, AGU Fall Meeting, Dec. 2019, poster.
Southern Ocean biogeography from autonomous floats, Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling (SOCCOM) Annual Meeting, May 2019, oral.
Physical drivers of phytoplankton bloom initiation in the Southern Ocean, AGU Fall Meeting, Dec. 2018, oral.
Physical processes driving persistently shallow mixed layers in the southern Scotia Sea, Ocean Sciences Meeting, Feb. 2018, poster.
Impact of freshwater plumes on intraseasonal upper ocean variability in the Bay of Bengal from moored observations, AGU Fall Meeting, Dec. 2016, poster.
Quantifying the total marine sedimentary carbonate budget, Columbia Undergraduate Student Showcase, Apr. 2016, poster.
• Anna Lopez, Stanford University. Project: Seasonality of the Antarctic Coastal Current in the Bellingshausen Sea.
• Isabella Checa, Princeton University. Project: Joint variability of air-sea carbon and oxygen fluxes in the Southern Ocean.
• Rachel Pang, Princeton University. Project: Remote sources of oceanic heat delivery to the Antarctic continental shelf (Prend et al., 2024).
• Jess Hunt, Princeton University. Project: Boundary between regimes of pCO2 seasonality in the South Pacific (Prend, Hunt, et al., 2022).
• Hanne Borstlap, Princeton University. Project: Seasonal variabilitiy of deep chlorophyll maxima in an oligotrophic regime.
• Sawyer Brand, UCSD. Project: Lateral mixing of Pacific and North Atlantic Deep Waters in the Argentine Basin (Brand et al., 2023).
• Lauren von Berg, Princeton University. Project: Weddell Sea phytoplankton blooms modulated by sea ice variability and polynya formation (von Berg et al., 2020).
• Guest Lecturer: ATMS588/Global Carbon Cycle and Climate (Winter 2024)
• Guest Lecturer: OCEAN512/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics I (Winter 2023)
• Guest Lecturer: MARBIO301/Topics in Marine Biology (Winter 2023)
• Guest Lecturer: OCEAN510/Physics of Ocean Circulation (Fall 2022)
• Math Tutorial Instructor: OCEAN510/Physics of Ocean Circulation (Fall 2022)
• Teaching Assistant: SIO210/Physical Oceanography (Fall 2020) TA Evaluations
• Guest Lecturer: SIO176/Observational Physical Oceanography (Spring 2020)
• Math Tutorial Instructor: SIO210/Physical Oceanography (Fall 2019, 2020, 2021)
• Department Tutor: SIO212B/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics II (Spring 2019)