Dr. Julie Pullen is an oceanographer, Earth system scientist, and author who has spent her career studying the air and sea through fieldwork across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, expeditions to the icy poles, and high-resolution models that fill in what sensors miss.
She began her career as a naval oceanographer, then led the nation’s Maritime Security Center before becoming an engineering professor. Escalating extreme weather in the Philippines, where she spent a Fulbright sabbatical, motivated her to leave academia and help lead an early startup calculating climate risks. She later co-founded a venture capital fund investing in oceans as a climate solution.
Dr. Pullen serves on the board of Ocean Visions, a nonprofit consortium of research institutions pursuing ideas to stabilize the climate and regenerate the oceans, and is a Fellow of the Explorers Club. Her debut book is forthcoming.
