Curriculum Vitae: Sonya Allayne Legg

ADDRESS

NOAA GFDL
Princeton University
Forrestal Campus, US Route 1
P.O. Box 308
Princeton NJ 08542

EDUCATION

Oxford University, Keble College,UK, 1986-1989, Physics, BA Honours, First Class.

Imperial College , University of London,UK, 1989-1992, Dynamical meteorology and oceanography, PhD.
Thesis title: Open-ocean deep convection: the spreading phase.
Thesis supervisor: John Marshall.

POSITIONS HELD

Royal Aerospace Establishment , Farnborough, UK. 1986-1987.
Student Scientist (summer internship).

Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne , Lausanne , Switzerland. 1989.
Student assistant in fluid mechanics department .

Imperial College, London, UK. 1990-1991.
Student laboratory teaching assistant for physics undergraduate course and summer secondary school workshops.

Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. 1991 - 1992.
Research Fellow, exchange visitor in Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.

University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. Feb 1993 - Jan 1995.
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics.
Funded by National Science Foundation, High Performance Computation and Communication program.

National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA. Feb 1993 - Jan 1995.
Visiting postdoctoral scientist in Climate and Global Dynamics division, Oceanography section.

Universities Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA. Feb 1995 - Feb 1997.
NOAA Climate and Global Change program postdoctoral fellow.
(host institution: University of California Los Angeles)

Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics , UCLA , Los Angeles, USA. Feb 1997- Sept 1997.
Assistant researcher.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Sept 1997 - May 2001.
Assistant scientist.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,  May 2001- August 2006.
Associate scientist. Awarded tenure January 2005.

Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program   Sept 2004- present.
Research Oceanographer.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Keble College, Oxford University,UK, Open Scholarship, 1986-1989.
Ministry of Defence,UK, student sponsorship, 1986-1989.
Natural Environment Research Council,UK, studentship, 1989-1992.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA, post-doctoral fellowhip in Climate and Global Change, 1995.

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Geophysical Union
European Geophysical Society
American Physical Society

PUBLICATIONS

A heton model of the spreading phase of open-ocean deep convection, Legg S. and J. Marshall, 1993. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 23, 1040-1056.

Penetrative convection in rapidly rotating flows: Preliminary results from numerical simulation, Julien K., S. Legg, J. McWilliams, and J. Werne, 1996a. Dyn. Atmos. Oceans, 24 237-249.

Hard-Turbulent heat-transport scaling in rotating Rayleigh-Benard convection: preliminary results from numerical simulation, Julien K., S. Legg, J. McWilliams and J. Werne, 1996b. Phys. Rev. E. 53 R5557.

Rapidly rotating turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection, Julien, K., S. Legg, J. McWilliams, and J. Werne, 1996c. J. of Fluid Mech.322 243-273.

A heton perspective of baroclinic eddy transfer in localized open ocean convection,, Legg S., H. Jones, and M. Visbeck, 1996. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 26 2251-2266.

The influence of the ambient circulation on the spreading of convected fluid, Legg S. and J. Marshall, 1998. J. Mar. Research, 56 107-139.

Localization of deep ocean convection by a mesoscale eddy,Legg S.,  J. McWilliams,  and J. Gao, 1998. J. Phys. Oceanogr.28 944-970.

The Labrador Sea Deep Convection experiment. The LabSea Group, 1998. Bull. American Met. Soc., 79 2033-2058.

Plumes in rotating convection. Part I: ensemble statistics and dynamical balances , Julien K., S. Legg, J. McWilliams, J. Werne, 1999. J. Fluid Mech.  391 151-187.

Modeled radar surface signature of deep ocean convection,Fischer K.W., S. Legg, W.H. Munk, R.M. Shuchman, R.W. Garwood, and J.P.Palshook, 1999. IEEE Transactions of geosciences and remote sensing, 37 2050-2067.

Temperature and salinity variability in heterogeneous ocean convection . Legg, S., and J. McWilliams, 2000. J. Phys Oceanogr. 30 1188-1206.

Convective modifications of a geostrophic eddy field, S. Legg,  and J. McWilliams, 2001. J. Phys Oceanogr. 31 874-891.

Vertical transport by convective plumes: modification by rotation., S. Legg, K. Julien, J. McWilliams, J. Werne, 2001. Phys. and Chem. of the Earth.  26  259-262.

Sampling characteristics from isobaric floats in a convective eddy field, S. Legg,  and J. McWilliams, 2002. J. Phys Oceanogr. 32 527-544.

Internal wave breaking at concave and convex continental slopes, S. Legg,  and A. J. Adcroft, 2003. J. Phys Oceanogr. 33 2224-2246.

Internal tides generated on a corrugated continental slope. Part I: Cross-slope barotropic forcing, S. Legg, 2004. J. Phys Oceanogr. 34 156-173.

Internal tides generated on a corrugated continental slope. Part II: Along-slope barotropic forcing, S. Legg, 2004. J. Phys Oceanogr. 34 1824-1838.

A simple criterion to determine the transition from a localized convection to a distributed convection regime, S. Legg, 2004. J. Phys Oceanogr. 34 2843-2846.

Comparison of entrainment in overflows simulated by z-coordinate, isopycnal and nonhydrostatic models, S. Legg, R.W. Hallberg and J.B. Girton, 2006. Ocean Modelling, 11 69-97.

Preliminary simulations of internal waves and mixing generated by finite amplitude tidal flow over isolated topography,  S. Legg, and K.M.H. Huijts, 2006. Deep Sea Research, part II, 53, 140-156. 

Regional simulations of the Faroe Bank Channel Overflow in a level model,  U. Riemenschneider and S. Legg, 2006. Accepted for publication in Ocean Modelling. 

Internal waves, baroclinic energy fluxes and mixing at the European shelf edge,   J.A.M. Green, J.H. Simpson, S. Legg and M.R. Palmer, 2007. Submitted to Continental Shelf Research. 

Internal Hydraulic Jumps and Overturning generated by a tidal flow over a tall steep ridge,   S. Legg, and J. Klymak, 2007. Submitted to J. Phys. Oceanogr.. 
 

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