Candice Hall

Candice is the Principle Investigator (PI) of the US Argo AOML Program and the Manager of US Argo Data Assembly Center, which is housed at NOAA AOML. Argo is an international program involving six U.S. NOAA Agencies, eight U.S. Universities & 30 countries. This global array of autonomous, robotic profiling floats is now the dominant source of subsurface ocean data. Argo observations are used to detects long-term changes in sea level, ocean heat, ocean biogeochemistry, ice volume and long-term weather signals. Argo is critical for improved global ocean and weather forecasts, including extreme weather events such as hurricanes, and are used within short-range ocean forecast applications for search and rescue operations, fisheries, shipping, oil and gas, and the military. Dr. Hall uses these Argo and other long-term ocean and atmospheric datasets in her research activities that focus on ocean circulation and mesoscale features, ocean heat storage, and ocean-atmosphere interactions, with a goal of improving short and long-term weather and ocean model predictions.