04 March 2015. Giddings briefly spoke at a STAY COOL event where Dr. Ron Flick was the lead speaker. Dr Flick discussed climate change impacts as they relate to sea level on a global and regional scale, including his recent work in Antarctica. Dr. Giddings described her work on local estuarine response to extreme sea level events including her PhD … Read More

19 February 2015. Giddings (holding poster) helps lead a tour of Scripps Pier and a discussion of sea level change with sea level expert Dr. Ron Flick (with the ballcap) for the group, STAY COOL. STAY COOL is a non-partisan organization of grandparents working to help protect their grandkids from global warming by staying informed and expanding education. The group visit was planned to … Read More

Giddings’ group received an Environment Blaskar Grant from the San Diego Foundation to examine the response of local lagoons to extreme events through numerical models. The work will be used to consider these system’s response to future change. See the press-release here.

Check out The Oceanography Society (TOS) special issue on women in oceanography for a series of inspiring profiles and information on how far oceanography has come in the past decade.

Check out the exciting Ignite! talks at the 2013 Coastal Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) conference, 1 year ago in San Diego. I was invited to give one of these talks, you can see me at minute 19:40 but it is well worth watching the whole bunch! [vimeo 87912397 w=500 h=375] Ignite Session: What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger (Or at … Read More

Giddings et al. 2014 publication “Hindcasts of potential harmful algal bloom transport pathways on the Pacific Northwest coast” was featured as the weekly highlighted publication by Scripps Institution of Oceanography in July and was recently featured in the University of Washington news!

Angelica Gilroy and Madeleine Harvey are recent PhD students joining the lab. They both will be working on local Southern California estuaries and their interactions with the ocean. Gilroy and Harvey have both completed 1 year of coursework at SIO and are actively starting their research projects this summer.

If you have visited this site, you may notice some oddities and a lot of things missing, please be patient as this site is under construction and check back in a couple of weeks!

After three lovely years as a postoc at the University of Washington, I just moved to San Diego to start an Assistant Professor position at Scripps Institution of Oceanography