Abigail Bodner is the X-Window Consortium Career Development Assistant Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with a shared appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). She joined the faculty in 2024, following her tenure as a Simons Society Junior Fellow at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, where she collaborated with Dr. Laure Zanna and served as an affiliate in the Multiscale Machine Learning In Coupled Earth System Modeling (M²LInES) project. Bodner completed her PhD in Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Brown University in 2021 under the supervision of Professor Baylor Fox-Kemper, earning the Community Earth Systems Model Graduate Student Award for her pioneering work on parameterizing the interplay between ocean submesoscales and boundary layer turbulence, which has been integrated into next-generation climate models. She also obtained an ScM in Applied Mathematics from Brown University, an MSc in Atmospheric Sciences from Tel Aviv University—where she studied the effects of topography-generated stationary waves on large-scale atmospheric circulation—and a double-major BSc in Mathematics and Earth Sciences from the same institution.

In the field of Geoscience, Bodner's research centers on physical oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, turbulence, and climate modeling. She examines upper-ocean turbulence across scales from hundreds of kilometers to one meter, employing theoretical frameworks, high-resolution numerical simulations, climate models, and machine learning to enhance representations of unresolved physics critical for ocean-atmosphere interactions and climate prediction. Her investigations extend to drivers of coastal sea level variability. Key publications include "Modifying the Mixed Layer Eddy Parameterization to Include Frontogenesis Arrest by Boundary Layer Turbulence" co-authored with Fox-Kemper et al. in the Journal of Physical Oceanography (2023); "A breakdown in potential vorticity estimation delineates the submesoscale-to-turbulence boundary in large eddy simulations" with Fox-Kemper in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (2020); and "A Data-Driven Approach for Parameterizing Submesoscale Vertical Buoyancy Fluxes in the Ocean Mixed Layer" with Balwada and Zanna (arXiv preprint, 2023). Bodner has been honored with the NASA Transform to Open Science Training Award (2023) and the Simons Society Junior Fellowship (2021). Additionally, she co-founded Climatematch Academy, an online initiative fostering computational skills and diversity in climate science. At MIT, she is committed to mentoring emerging scholars and advancing interdisciplinary research on turbulence and sea level dynamics.

Professional Email: abodner@mit.edu