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Cassia Cai

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Graduate Student | Climate Variability, Impacts and Extremes, Outreach and Communication | Oceanography

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I am a fourth-year PhD student in physical oceanography working with Dr. LuAnne Thompson. I study ocean heat extremes and transport such as the physical drivers of marine heatwaves and how clouds affect the strength and variability of large upper-ocean circulation structures called the Subtropical Cells in the Pacific Ocean. These cells have an important role in global heat transport. I also have an interest in clean energy.