Elaine McDonagh

Elaine is a Research Professor at NORCE, and part of the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research in Bergen, Norway. Previously, she was in the Marine Physics and Climate Group at the National Oceanography Centre, UK, for 19 years; and she continues to have a position there. Her undergraduate degree in Environmental Sciences and her PhD were completed at the University of East Anglia. Her research interests are in the oceans’ role in climate, particularly how the ocean takes up heat, freshwater and carbon and the interaction with ocean circulation and water masses. Elaine coordinates the Horizons Europe project EuroGO-SHIP and co-chairs the International GO-SHIP programme that makes the observations on which her research is based. For TRICUSO, she is leading Work Package 5, and also involved in WP3 and WP6.