Sonya Legg

Legg earned a bachelor’s in physics from Oxford University and a PhD in dynamical meteorology and physical oceanography from Imperial College. Following postdoctoral research at the University of Colorado and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the latter as a NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellow, she worked as a scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for seven years before moving to Princeton University. At Princeton she was the Associate Director of the Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System, and served on the faculty of the graduate program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science. She is currently serving on the Scientific Steering Group of the World Climate Research Programme CLIVAR project and as an associate editor of the Journal for Advances in Modeling the Earth System. Legg was previously co-chair of MPOWIR (Mentoring Physical Oceanography Women to Increase Retention), a mentoring program committed to improving gender balance in the oceanography field.