Julie Pullen

Dr. Julie Pullen is an oceanographer and meteorologist working on climate resilience and climate solutions. Her expertise spans climate, weather and water with a particular focus on earth system modeling and observing. Currently an ocean climate tech investor with Propeller Ventures, she previously was the Climate Strategist (and before that, Director of Product) with Jupiter Intelligence, an early climate risk analytics startup. Prior to that she was an ocean engineering professor at Stevens Institute of Technology where she held a joint appointment with the Department of Energy’s Environmental and Climate Sciences division and was a Fulbright Visiting Professor in the Philippines.

A former oceanographer with the Navy, she was also a Science Fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation and led the Department of Homeland Security’s Maritime Security Center of Excellence.

Dr. Pullen serves on the U.S. Government’s National Climate Security Roundtable and the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) advisory committee for the Sustainability and Climate Risk program. She is also on the board of Waterfront Alliance and an advisor to Resilience Rising.

Dr. Pullen was a member of the National Academy of Sciences committee peer-reviewing the most recent National Climate Assessment, as well as committees on Earth System Prediction and Ocean Observations. She was a chapter co-author of the New York City Panel on Climate Change report. She has been elected to the leadership council of both the American Meteorological Society and The Oceanography Society.