Barbara Hickey

Barbara Mary Hickey is an Emeritus Professor of Oceanography at the University of Washington. Her research involves field measurements and computational models to understand coastal processes. She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.

Barbara Mary Hickey
Alma materUniversity of California, San Diego
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of Toronto
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Washington
ThesisThe Pacific equatorial undercurrent, a velocity and hydrographic section : a study of the relationship between its driving forces, and a time dependent linear model for its zonal velocity (1975)

Early life and education

Hickey is from Canada.[1] She studied physics at the University of Toronto, where she was encouraged by a Professor to choose a "softer" field, such as Oceanography.[2] She earned her doctoral degree at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1975. Her doctoral research involved studying equatorial processes such as El Niño. She was involved with the first attempt to monitor the equatorial undercurrent using moored buoys.[2]

Research and career

When Hickey started her academic career at the University of Washington she was one of only a handful of women working in physical oceanography in the United States.[3] Hickey combines onshore sampling and offshore measurements with computational models of water movement, salinity and temperature off the coast of Washington. She also studies plankton fluorescence and offshore oxygen.[4] She was involved with several large field and computational programs, including;

Her work resulted in the development of sophisticated computer models that could predict the movement of harmful algal blooms.[9][10] In 1988 Hickey was elected President of the Ocean Sciences Section of the American Geophysical Union.[11]

Hickey was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society in 1992 and the American Geophysical Union in 2014.[4][12]

Selected publications

Her publications include:

  • Hickey, Barbara M. (1979). "The California current system—hypotheses and facts". Progress in Oceanography. 8 (4): 191–279. Bibcode:1979PrOce...8..191H. doi:10.1016/0079-6611(79)90002-8.
  • Hickey, Barbara M.; Banas, Neil S. (2003). "Oceanography of the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coastal Ocean and estuaries with application to coastal ecology". Estuaries. 26 (4): 1010–1031. doi:10.1007/BF02803360.
  • Hickey, Barbara M. (1992). "Circulation over the Santa Monica-San Pedro Basin and Shelf". Progress in Oceanography. 30 (1–4): 37–115. Bibcode:1992PrOce..30...37H. doi:10.1016/0079-6611(92)90009-O.

Personal life

Hickey is married with two daughters.[2][13]

References
  1. "Ann Gargett". MPOWIR. 2010-08-12. 120. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
  2. Delaney, Peggy (2005). "Women in Oceanography" (PDF). The Oceanography Society. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  3. "Barbara Hickey". College of the Environment. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  4. "Barbara Hickey, AGU Fellow". www.ocean.washington.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  5. Hickey, B. M.; Kudela, R. M.; Nash, J. D.; Bruland, K. W.; Peterson, W. T.; MacCready, P.; Lessard, E. J.; Jay, D. A.; Banas, N. S.; Baptista, A. M.; Dever, E. P. (2010-02-03). "River Influences on Shelf Ecosystems: Introduction and synthesis". Journal of Geophysical Research. 115 (C2): C00B17. Bibcode:2010JGRC..115.0B17H. doi:10.1029/2009JC005452. ISSN 0148-0227.
  6. "Project: ECOHAB - Pacific Northwest | BCO-DMO". www.bco-dmo.org. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  7. "NSF Award Search: Award#0234587 - ECOHAB PNW: Ecology and Oceanography of Toxic Pseudo-nitzschia in the Pacific Northwest Coastal Ocean". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  8. "Cascadia Simulations PNWTOX - Pacific NorthWest TOXins project". iodlabs.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  9. "UW researcher helping pinpoint massive harmful algal bloom". UW News. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  10. "Ocean conditions contributed to unprecedented 2015 toxic algal bloom". UW News. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  11. "Barbara Hickey Hickey Barbara A1". photos.aip.org. 2014-02-24. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  12. "List of Fellows". American Meteorological Society. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  13. "Women in Oceanography: A Decade Later" (PDF). The Oceanography Society. 2014. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
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