Susan Elizabeth Anne Wijffels (born 3 August 1965) is an Australian oceanographer employed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI); she formerly worked from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia.
[1][2] Wijffels specialises in quantifying global ocean change over the past 50 years, including its anatomy and drivers.
[3][4][5] Wijffels is a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the Physical Oceanography department.
Wijffels, in collaboration with colleagues at NASA, identified and corrected systematic biases, discovered in 70% of measurements in the Global Ocean Observing System.
This led to the observation that the world's oceans have both warmed and risen at an increased rate in the past four decades.