Christina Holland, Ph.D.

Marine Scientist
Specialty: Physical Oceanography

3616 Far West Blvd #117-145
Austin, TX 78731
cholland@oceansci.net

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Christina Holland is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Institute for Geophysics of the University of Texas, working under the supervision of Dr. Rob Scott and Dr. Charles Jackson. She earned her Ph.D. in Marine Science at the University of South Florida, working with Dr. Gary Mitchum. After completing her Ph.D, she worked as a postdoctoral research assistant and GK-12 Fellow at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg, Florida. Her Masters of Science is in physical oceanography from the University of Hawaii, Manoa.

Dr. Holland's M.S. work described the mesoscale variability in the northern hemisphere Pacific ocean, including eddies spun up at the tip of the Big Island of Hawaii. This work was further explored during her time at USF. Her Ph.D. and more recent research concerns pathways of heat and water mass between the tropics and higher latitudes on ENSO (El Nino / Southern Oscillation) and decadal time scales using the Gent and Cane (1989) sigma-coordinate model in the Pacific, as well as in situ and satellite data (mainly TOPEX/Poseidon altimetry) . Since arriving at the University of Texas, she has been studying decadal variability in the tropical Pacific using modern coral records as proxies for sea surface temperature, and millennial-scale changes in ENSO to decadal scale climate variability using climate models and proxies.

Poster presented at Harrington Fellows Program Symposium on Abrupt Climate Change

Selected publications and class notes

Propagating Decadal SST Signal Identified in Modern Proxy Records of the Tropical Pacific
Christina L. Holland, Rob Scott, Soon-Il An, and Fred Taylor, Submitted to Climate Dyn., October, 2005.

Interannual Temperature Variability in the Tropical Pacific and Lagrangian Heat Transport Pathways
Christina L. Holland and Gary T. Mitchum
Journal of Geophysical Research, vol 110, doi:10.1029/2004JC002466, 3/17/2003.

Interannual Volume Variability in the Tropical Pacific
Christina L. Holland and Gary T. Mitchum
Journal of Geophysical Research, vol 108, no. C11, 11/28/2003.

Propagation of Big Island Eddies - Christina L. Holland and Gary T. Mitchum
Journal of Geophysical Research, vol 106, no. C1, pp. 935-944, 1/15/2001.

Altimetry lab for Remote Sensing Class - last taught Spring 2001.

Beaches Under Assault: Storms and Sea Level Rise - Christina Holland and Rich Young.

The Oceans In Motion: El Nino and its Effects - Jyotika I. Virmani and Christina Holland.


Participation in outreach programs

GK-12 Oceans
The Oceanography Camp Especially for Girls
The Making Waves project