She has been at NPS since graduating from ODU, first as a postdoctoral researcher, and then in her current position to which she was promoted in August 1995. She is part of a team (NPS, LANL, NCAR) funded by the DOE/CHAMMP program to develop high resolution ocean models for climate studies. Her contribution to this effort is to use many different types of data to verify model behavior and physics. In addition, Julie is the PI of an NSF grant comparing high resolution ocean models with WOCE data, and she is a co-PI on a NASA grant with a goal of using a combination of data and models to understand seasonal to decadal climate changes. Julie was married in 1994 and lives in Monterey with her husband, Toby, stepson Nathan, and Zack, a black Labrador.