Education

  • 2002 Ph. D. University of Washington, School of Oceanography
  • 1997 M. S. University of Washington, School of Oceanography
  • 1994 B. S. Yale University, Department of Geology and Geophysics

Professional Experience

May 2010 – present
Senior Research Scientist, NorthWest Research Associates, Redmond
September 2005 – April 2010
Research Associate, Earth and Space Research, Seattle
September 2003 – August 2005
Postdoctoral research fellow, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
June & July 2003
Guest researcher, Institut für Meereskunde, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel
June 2002 – May 2003
Postdoctoral research associate, School of Oceanography & Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle
June 2001 – June 2002
Research assistant, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle
September 1994 – June 2001
Graduate research assistant, School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle

Honors and Awards

  • 2004 Conseil Scientifique de l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 2002 Chateaubriand Fellowship for scientific research in France
  • Embassy of France in the United States / 2003- 2004 tenure
  • 1995 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate
  • Fellowship, Department of Defense / 1995-1998 tenure
  • 1994 Hammer Award for outstanding senior thesis presentation
  • Yale University, Department of Geology and Geophysics

Journal Publications

  1. Lilly, J. M., and S. C. Olhede (2012). Analysis of modulated multivariate oscillations. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 60 (2), 600–612.

  2. Lilly, J. M., R. K. Scott, and S. C. Olhede (2011). Extracting waves and vortices from Lagrangian trajectories. Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L23605, 1–5.

  3. Lilly, J. M. (2011). Modulated oscillations in three dimensions. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 59 (12), 5930–5943.

  4. Lilly, J. M., and S. C. Olhede (2010). On the analytic wavelet transform. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 56 (8), 4135–4156.

  5. Lilly, J. M., and S. C. Olhede (2010). Bivariate instantaneous frequency and bandwidth. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 58 (2), 591–603.

  6. T. Rykova, F. Straneo, J. M. Lilly, and I. Yashayaev, (2009). Irminger Current anticyclones in the Labrador Sea observed in the hydrographic record, 1990–2004. Journal of Marine Research, 67 (3), 361–384.

  7. Lilly, J. M., and S. C. Olhede (2009). Higher-order properties of analytic wavelets. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 57 (1), 146–160.

  8. Lagerloef, G, F. R. Colomb, D. Le Vine, F. Wentz, S. Yueh, C. Ruf, J. Lilly, J. Gunn, Y. Chao, A. deCharon, G. Feldman, and C. Swift (2008). The Aquarius/SAC-D mission: Designed to meet the salinity remote- sensing challenge. Oceanography, 21 (1), 69–81.

  9. Rilling, G., P. Flandrin, P. Gonçalves, and J. M. Lilly (2007). Bivariate empirical mode decomposition. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 14 (12), 936–939.

  10. Lilly, J. M. and J.-C. Gascard (2006). Wavelet ridge diagnosis of time-varying elliptical signals with application to an oceanic eddy. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 13, 467– 483.

  11. Bunge, L., C. Provost, J. M. Lilly, M. D'Orgeville, A. Kartavtseff, and J.-L. Mélice (2006). Variability of the horizontal velocity structure in the Upper 1600 m of the water column on the Equator at 10° W. Journal of Physical Oceanography 36, 1287– 1304.

  12. Lilly, J. M., and E. E. Lettvin (2004). The "switch-on" problem for linear time-invariant operators. Signal Processing 84, 763–784.

  13. Lilly, J. M., P. B. Rhines, F. Schott, K. Lavender, J. Lazier, U. Send, and E. D'Asaro (2003). Observations of the Labrador Sea eddy field. Progress in Oceanography 59, 75–176.

  14. Lilly, J. M. and P. B. Rhines (2002). Coherent eddies in the Labrador Sea observed from a mooring. Journal of Physical Oceanography 32, 585–598.

  15. Lilly, J. M., P. B. Rhines, M. Visbeck, R. E. Davis, J. R. N. Lazier, F. Schott and D. Farmer (1999). Observing deep convection in the Labrador Sea during winter 1994–95. Journal of Physical Oceanography 29, 2065–2098.

  16. Lilly, J. M. and J. Park (1995). Multiwavelet spectral and polarization analysis. Geophysical Journal International 122, 1001– 1021.

  17. Bolton, E. W., K. A. Maasch and J. M. Lilly (1995). A wavelet analysis of Plio- Pleistocene climate indicators: A new view of periodicity evolution. Geophysical Research Letters 22, 2753–2756.

Invited Talks and Conference Presentations

02 Nov. 2009 IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers
01 July 2009 Capstone Conference, University of Warwick
10 Nov. 2008 Labrador Sea Workshop, Bedford Institute of Oceanography
03 Mar. 2008 ASLO 2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando
20 Oct. 2007 Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bergen
21 Sept. 2007 Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT
18 Sept. 2007 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
18 May 2006 Institutt for Fysikk og Teknologi, Universitetet i Tromsø
16 May 2006 Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bergen
19 Feb. 2004 Laboratoire des Ecoulements Géophysique et Industriels, Grenoble
16 Mar. 2004 Laboratoire d'Océanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie, Paris
23 June 2003 Institut für Meereskunde, Christian- Albrechts-Universität, Kiel
22 May 2003 University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory
25 Apr. 2003 Florida State University Department of Oceanography
25 Oct. 2002 University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography
22 Oct. 2002 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
18 Oct. 2002 Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
25 July 2001 Institut für Meereskunde, Christian- Albrechts-Universität, Kiel
08 July 2001 Laboratoire d'Océanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie, Paris