Marion Stössel is Senior Research Associate in the Department of Oceanography at Texas A&M University and a member of the GCOOS Data Management and Communications team, working mainly on data processing and data review.

She received her Masters from the University of Hamburg, Germany, 1985, in physical Oceanography and has since worked with all types of data, including:

• Remote sensing data from Landsat Thematic Mapper, for a NASA Study at the Helmholtz-Zentrum, Geesthacht, Germany (former GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht, Germany).
• Analysis of Modular Ocean Model Global Circulation Model (MOM GCM) output data for an Equatorial Atlantic Circulation study.”
• Model input and output data for Antarctic-Sea-Ice modeling studies, providing higher resolution input data to the regional part of the Global Circulation Model (GCM) and analysis of  the output data.
• Since 2008 she has mainly reviewed, processed and analyzed observational data for the Arabian sea and the Gulf of Mexico projects at Texas A&M.