Lucila Houttuijn Bloemendaal
Physical Scientist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Title Physical Scientist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Email lbloem@bu.edu
- Education Duke University, B.S.
Boston University, Ph.D. in Earth & Environment
Lucila Houttuijn Bloemendaal earned a Ph.D. from the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University in 2023. She is from New Orleans and has lived in Houston and Groningen, The Netherlands. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Earth and Ocean Sciences from Duke University. At Duke, she did her honor’s thesis in paleoceanography, using microfossils to reconstruct historical water temperatures in the tropical North Atlantic to understand past ocean-climate interactions. At BU she was a Clare Boothe Luce Fellow and NOAA Knauss Marine Policy Fellow, and her research focused on East Coast salt marshes and the impact of waves and storms on these ecosystems’ survival. She is currently a physical scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where she coordinates work to develop new and upgraded ocean forecast systems that will improve the nation’s understanding and prediction capabilities of flooding and inundation.
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ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucila-Houttuijn-Bloemendaal
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucila-houttuijn-bloemendaal/