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Sheekela Baker-Yeboah
Sheekela Baker-Yeboah is a physical oceanographer and a research scientist at the University of Maryland. She currently focuses on Physical and Biological Implications of Ocean Eddies and product development using Ocean Color, Altimetry, and Sea Surface Temperature data with the SOCD at NOAA. Dr. Baker-Yeboah is known for her accomplishments in the early deployment of the NOAA Jason-3 Satellite Ground System.

Biography
Sheekela Baker- Yeboah got her PhD at the University of Rhode Island and gained her post doctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After her post doctoral training she became a visiting Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute of Massachusetts, and then visiting Professor at Lesley University of Cambridge, Massachusetts. She also won multiple awards including the 2018 NOAA Bronze Medal Career Award for early deployment of the NOAA Jason-3 Satellite Ground System, as well as winning the 2019 Women of Color STEM Outstanding Achievement Award. Finally, Dr. Baker-Yeboah held the position of Satellite Team Lead at NOAA with the University of Maryland.

Publications
* Baker-Yeboah, S., D. A. Byrne, E. Leuliette, and P. DiGiacomo, ‘Physical and Biological Implications of Eddy Signatures in the Benguela and California Regions’, (in prep: presented at AGU, 2018).

* Baker-Yeboah, S., K. Arzayus, K. S. Casey, M. B. Jones. National Centers for Environmental Information Arctic Data Integration with the NSF Arctic Data Center. Arctic Research Consortium of The United States, Fall 2016 Issue 3. https://www.arcus.org/witness-the-arctic/2016/3/article/26070.

* Baker-Yeboah, S., T. Boyer, L. K. Shay, E M. Maturi, and D. Donahue (2015). Sea Surface Temperature and Ocean Heat Content from Space. NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI White Paper Submitted 2015.

* Beal, L. M., W. P. M. de Ruijter, A. Biastoch, R. Zahn, Meghan Cronin, Juliet Hermes, Johann Lutjeharms, Graham Quartly, Tomoki Tozuka, Sheekela Baker-Yeboah, Thomas Bornman, Paolo Cipollini, Henk Dijkstra, Ian Hall, Wonsun Park, Frank Peeters, Pierrick Penven, Herman Rid- derinkhof, and Jens Zinke (2011), On the role of the Agulhas System in Ocean Circulation and Climate, Nature, 472, 429-436, doi:10.1038/Nature 09983. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v472/n7344/full/nature09983.html

* Baker-Yeboah, S., D. A. Byrne, and D. R. Watts. Observations of Mesoscale Eddies in the South Atlantic Cape Basin: Baroclinic and Deep Barotropic Eddy Variability, J. Geophys. Res., VOL. 115, C12069, doi:10.1029/2010JC006236, 2010. http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2010/2010JC006236.shtml

* Baker-Yeboah, S., G. R. Flierl, G. G. Sutyrin, and Y. Zhang. Transformation of an Agulhas Eddy Near the Continental Slope. Ocean Sci., 6, 143-159, 2010. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/66177

* Baker-Yeboah, S., D. R. Watts, and D. A. Byrne. Baroclinic and Barotropic Sea Surface Height Variability in the Southeast Atlantic from Pressure-Sensor Equipped Inverted Echo Sounders. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 26, 2593-2609, 2009. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/64409

* Baker-Yeboah, S., 2008: Sea Surface Height Variability and the Structure of Eddies in the South Atlantic Cape Basin. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett 308 pp. http://www.sheekelabaker.com/

* Waring, G. T., T. Hamazaki, D. Sheehan, G. Wood, S. Baker. Characterization Of Beaked Whale (Ziphiidae) And Sperm Whale (Physeter Macrocephalus) Summer Habitat in Shelf-Edge and Deeper Waters off the Northeast U. S. Marine Mammal Science.Vol. 17 Issue 4, 703 -717. October 2001.

* Baker, S., D. Sheres, and R. Arnone. Characteristics of double vortices in the Northwestern Arabian Sea and the North Atlantic Gulf Stream region as observed by AVHRR imagery. Ocean Technology. Stennis Space Center, Proceedings of the Gulf Coast Section Marine Technology Society. Navel Oceanographic Office, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi (1997): 32-39.