Overview

  • 2026 Membership :

    • Gael Forget (PI), Yuanyuan Song (Postdoc), Wenrui Jiang (Postdoc), Yueyang Lu (Postdoc)

  • Acknowledgements :

    • Our group's research is supported by funding from NASA (PO, ECCO), NOAA (CVP), ARIA's Forecasting Tipping Points program, and the MIT-Portugal-Program.

Principal Investigator

  • Dr Gael Forget

    • I investigate oceanography and climate within the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, focusing on ocean modeling and analysis of climate observations (e.g., Argo profiles, satellite data). My interests span ocean circulation, climate variability, transport processes, biology-physics interactions, and global cycles of heat, water, and carbon. I employ forward/inverse modeling, observational statistics, and machine learning. Notably, I designed the ECCO version 4 estimation framework.

    • Dr Gael Forget

  • Published Research Overview

Current Group Members

  • Dr Yuanyuan Song (postdoctoral associate)

    • I am a postdoc in Gaël Forget’s group at MIT. My research broadly explores how the ocean, atmosphere, and sea ice interact — connecting tropical variability, mid-latitude extremes, and polar change. I work across a wide range of timescales, including seasonal, interannual, and decadal variability, as well as long-term climate trends. Currently, I’m focusing on mode water temperature change, and ocean heat transport related to ENSO.

    • Dr Yuanyuan Song

  • Dr Wenrui Jiang (postdoctoral associate)

    • I received my Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University (2025). My research interests include tracer transport, Lagrangian dynamics, submesoscale processes, and AMOC. I am an avid open-source software developer.

    • Dr Wenrui Jiang

  • Dr Yueyang Lu (postdoctoral associate)

    • I am a postdoctoral associate at MIT. Prior to this, I worked as a postdoctoral associate at the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University. I completed my Ph.D. in Meteorology & Physical Oceanography at the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Science, University of Miami.

    • Dr Yueyang Lu