Gaël Forget

About Me

My research group focuses on ocean modeling and the analysis of climate observations, including Argo profile collections and satellite data products.


Title: Research Scientist
Research Group: Forget Group, Follows Group

Room: 54-1422
Phone: 617-452-2977
Email: gforget@mit.edu


Research Interests

My scientific interests include ocean circulation, climate variability, transport processes, interaction of biology and physics, global cycles of heat, water, and carbon. I use forward and inverse modeling, observational statistics, and machine learning methods. I have notably designed and produced the ECCO version 4 estimation framework.

Current members of the Forget Group:

  • Dr. Yuanyuan Song
  • Dr. Wenrui Jiang
  • Dr. Yueyang Lu

Research acknowledgement:

Our group’s research is supported by funding from NASA (PO, ECCO), NOAA (CVP), ARIA’s Forecasting Tipping Points program, the MIT-Portugal-Program, and the Simons Foundation CBIOMES project (Follows Group award).