Amundsen and Bellingshausen Sector (ABS) Working Group Welcomes New Co-Chair

The Amundsen and Bellingshausen Sector (ABS) Regional Working Group (RWG) welcomes Hilde Oliver as its new Co-chair. Hilde will join Andy Thompson in leading the group. The working group would also like to thank outgoing Co-chair Pierre Dutrieux for his valuable contributions and efforts during his time in the role.

Hilde Oliver is an interdisciplinary oceanographer whose work centers on understanding physical–biological interactions in rapidly changing marine environments. She investigates these systems using a combination of ship-based in-situ measurements, global ocean observing datasets, and process-oriented numerical models.

Her current research explores how increasing glacial meltwater influences phytoplankton growth in the subpolar North Atlantic and Southern Ocean; how evolving Gulf Stream dynamics shape primary productivity across the U.S. northeast continental shelf and slope; and the environmental and ecological factors that govern blooms of coccolithophores, Phaeocystis, and diatoms.

Hilde earned her Ph.D. in Marine Sciences from the University of Georgia in 2019. She subsequently joined the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering Department as a postdoctoral scholar and became a member of the WHOI scientific staff in 2021.