Research
The topics I care about
Oxygen Minimum Zones
Will they expand or shrink?
Mesoscale Mixing
Small scale dynamics influence the climate
Will they expand or shrink?
Small scale dynamics influence the climate
I consider myself a “hybrid-oceanographer”.
In modern oceanography, observations, modeling and theory must not be seen as competing.
All these elements need to work together to better understand ocean processes to enable us
to make informed predictions of the role of the ocean in a future climate.
Below are my preferred tools to answer scientific questions.
Ocean observations are an irreplaceable asset for science and human society. Contrary to computer models, we have no chance of rerunning this climate scenario we all live in. Thus we have to observe as much as we can! I have worked with a variety of observations, from moored current meters, over shipboard measurements to remotely sensed data, making me appreciate all the hard work that goes into the collection of high-quality data.
From the source code of climate models over analysis notebooks to the visualization of data, oceanographers need to code!
Larger and larger datasets require computational efficiency, while collaboration with other scientists and software developers avoids repetition and encourages widely useable software.
I firmly believe all scientific code needs to be open-source to break down barriers that result from requiring expensive licenses to software.
I aim to make my scientific results 100% reproducible, well documented and integrate with community-driven projects like xarray and xgxm .
This saves people time deciphering appendices, and recoding methods which they can spend on more exciting science and perhaps improving the code to the benefit of everyone.
Modern supercomputers enable us to simulate the earth system with unprecedented detail. Numerical models provide dynamical context for observations and are essential for predicting the future climate. I have worked with idealized model simulations using MITgcm during my grad school. Currently, I am working with both coupled and ocean-only configurations of GFDL's MOM6 including biogeochemical models for the ocean.
I am currently a Postdoc in Prof. Resplandys research group.
I did my PhD with Prof. Gordon at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
My BS thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Arne Biastoch.
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Arnold Gordon
Major: Physical Oceanography
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Arnold Gordon
Major: Physical Oceanography
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Arnold Gordon
Major: Physical Oceanography
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Arne Biastoch
Major: Physics of the Earth System: Oceanography-Meteorology-Geophysics
Responsibilities:
Assistance with sampling strategy
Underway sampling
Data viz/management
Responsibilities:
CTD/LADCP
Underway sampling
Data viz/management
Responsibilities:
CTD/LADCP
Responsibilities:
CTD
Ocean Deoxygenation Conference 2018 Kiel, Germany
Ocean Sciences Meeting 2018 Portland, OR, USA
AMS 21st Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics 2018 Portland, OR, USA
Global Ocean Salinity and the Water Cycle Workshop 2017 Woods Hole, USA
AGU Fall Meeting 2016 San Francisco, USA
CLIVAR Open Science Conference 2016 Qingdao, China
Ocean Sciences Meeting 2016 New Orleans, USA
Open Science Conference: Salinity and Freshwater Changes in the Ocean 2015 Hamburg, Germany
AGU Fall Meeting 2014 San Francisco, USA
ESA workshop - Ocean Salinity Science 2014 Exeter, UK
EGU General Assembly 2014 Vienna, Austria
Ocean Science Meeting 2014 Honolulu, USA
NASA SPURS Webinar Series 2013
AGU Fall Meeting 2012 San Francisco, USA
Working with output from general circulation models using xesmf and xgcm
Junior student colloquium: Plotting maps in python
Invited Guest Lecture
ENV367-GEO367_F2018
Earth Systems - Climate EESCV2100
Intro to Physical Oceanography EESCW4925
Earth Oceans and Atmospheres EESCW4930
