Chris Hill

Chris Hill is a principal research engineer in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT. Hill specializes in Earth and planetary computational science, with a focus on applying large-scale computation to oceanography and climate. His work has included multi-physics, multi-scale models of fluid problems that have relevance to improved modeling of flows in inhomogeneous porous media. Hill co-leads the research, education, and outreach committee of the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC).

Selected Publications

• Ashkezari , M. D., Hagen, N. R., Denholtz, M., Neang, A., Burns, T. C., Morales, R. L., Lee, C. P., Hill, C. N., Armbrust, E. V. (2021). Simons Collaborative Marine Atlas Project (Simons CMAP): An open‐source portal to share, visualize, and analyze ocean data. Limnology and Oceanography, Methods 19(7).
• Sonnewald, M., Dutkiewicz, S., Hill, C., Forget, G. (2020). Elucidating ecological complexity: Unsupervised learning determines global marine eco-provinces. Science Advances 6(22).
• Wilson, S. T., Hawco, N. J., Armbrust, E. V, Barone, B., Hill, C. N., et. al. (2019). Kīlauea lava fuels phytoplankton bloom in the North Pacific Ocean. Science 365(6457):1040-1044.
• Heimbach, P., Fukumori, I., Hill, C. N., Ponte, R. M., Stammer, D., Wunsch, C., et. al.(2019). Putting It All Together: Adding Value to the Global Ocean and Climate Observing Systems With Complete Self-Consistent Ocean State and Parameter Estimates. Frontiers in Marine Science.

Media

February 11, 2020: MIT News, Brainstorming energy-saving hacks on Satori, MIT’s new supercomputer.
March 9, 2019: MIT News, Taking the world by storm.
February 21, 2014: MIT News, A brave new ocean world.