Lisan Yu

{{Short description|Senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution}}

Lisan Yu is an oceanographer, and a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She serves on the Earth Science Advisory Committee (ESAC), a new Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) committee of NASA.{{Cite web |title=Earth Science Advisory Committee {{!}} Science Mission Directorate |url=https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/nac/science-advisory-committees/esac |access-date=2022-09-22 |website=science.nasa.gov}}

In 2020, Yu was one of the researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who received a $500,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Climate Observations and Monitoring program to develop a machine learning framework to improve estimates of air-sea heat exchange in the Arctic Ocean.{{Cite web |title=WHOI-NOAA Partnership Tackles Critical Gap In Climate Knowledge |url=https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/whoi-noaa-partnership-tackles-critical-gap-in-climate-knowledge-1029659096 |access-date=2022-09-22 |website=markets.businessinsider.com |language=en}} Yu's research involves analysing data collected by a Saildrone fleet from a 2019 Arctic mission.{{Cite web |title=NASA study finds close correlation between satellite and Saildrone in-situ data |url=https://www.sailworldcruising.com/news/236204/Correlation-between-satellite-and-Saildrone-data |access-date=2022-09-22 |website=www.sailworldcruising.com}}

Yu has authored over 100 academic publications, which have been cited over 7,800 times, resulting in an h-index and i10-index of 37 and 65 respectively.{{Cite web |title=Lisan Yu |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yaZviHIAAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=2022-09-22 |website=scholar.google.com}} Yu was one of 1,371 peer-reviewers for the JGR-Oceans journal during 2021.{{Cite journal |last1=Beal |first1=Lisa M. |last2=Chambers |first2=Don |last3=Friedrichs |first3=Marjorie A. M. |last4=Gnanaseelan |first4=Chellappan |last5=Goodkin |first5=Nathalie F. |last6=Hetland |first6=Robert D. |last7=Mulligan |first7=Ryan P. |last8=Nagai |first8=Takeyoshi |last9=O’Callaghan |first9=Joanne (Joe) |last10=Padman |first10=Laurence (Laurie) |last11=Pinardi |first11=Nadia |last12=Power |first12=Hannah E. |last13=Singh |first13=Arvind |last14=Umlauf |first14=Lars |last15=Wåhlin |first15=Anna |date=May 2022 |title=Thank You to Our 2021 Reviewers |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JC018761 |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans |language=en |volume=127 |issue=5 |doi=10.1029/2022JC018761 |s2cid=248485026 |issn=2169-9275}}