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

September 2005 - present

Staff scientist, 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 (half-time), 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

Publications

8. 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.
   
   
7. 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.
   
   
6. Lilly, J. M., and E. E. Lettvin (2004). The "switch-on" problem for linear time-invariant operators. Signal Processing 84, 763--784.
   
   
5. 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.
   
   
4. 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.
   
   
3. 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.
   
   
2. Lilly, J. M. and J. Park (1995). Multiwavelet spectral and polarization analysis. Geophysical Journal International 122, 1001--1021.
   
   
1. 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

• 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