Dillon Amaya

Position
Research Scientist
Division
Atmosphere-Ocean Processes and Predictability
Affiliation
NOAA
Contact
About
Dillon Amaya is a research physical scientist at the Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) of the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratories in Boulder, Colorado. Dillon came to PSL as a CIRES postdoctoral research fellow from 2020 to 2021. His main interests involve the physical understanding of climate variability on seasonal-decadal timescales with an emphasis on ocean-atmosphere interactions and extremes. Most recently, Dillon has researched the dynamical drivers behind Northeast Pacific marine heatwaves. He has also worked to understand climate predictability in the past, present, and future, with the goal of assisting decision makers responsible for managing sensitive marine ecosystems along the U.S. west coast.
Research Interests
- Air-Sea Interactions
- Climate Dynamics
- Climate Variability
- Climate Extremes
- Marine Ecosystems
Education
- Ph.D., Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Sep 2019
- M.S., Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Jun 2015
- B.S., Meteorology, Texas A&M University , May 2014
Professional Memberships
- US CLIVAR Predictability, Predictions, and Applications Interface (PPAI) Panel
- American Meteorological Society Committee on Air-Sea Interactions
- American Geophysical Union
- American Meteorological Society
Honors and Awards
- CIRES Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Colorado Boulder
- Editor's Award, Atmospheric Science Letters
- Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation