The ocean plays a crucial role in the global
climate by transporting enormous amounts of heat, freshwater
and other tracers on a large range of spatial and temporal scales.
As part of the NASA-SPURS program I am interested in the
character and variability of these transports and their
relevance to the global climate system specifically with
respect to the transport of freshwater. I use a combination
of in situ data, remote sensing products and numerical model
output to quantify the influence of mesoscale eddies on near
surface mixing and their importance for the global surface
salinity which is inherently tied to the global freshwater cycle.
My research is currently supported by the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship.
Ocean Salinity, Global Hydrological cycle, Mesoscale Eddies, Mixing, Shallow overturning circulation
PhD Candidate - Physical Oceanography
Columbia University
BSc - Physics of the Earth System
Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany
2010
NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
2014
Outstanding Student Presentation Award
Ocean Science Meeting - Honolulu, 2014
Antarctica Service Medal
2011
Gordon, A. L., C. F. Giulivi, J. Busecke, and F. M. Bingham (2015), Differences among subtropical surface salinity patterns, Oceanography, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2015.02.
Gordon, A. L., B. A. Huber, and J. Busecke (2015), Bottom water export from the western Ross Sea, 2007 through 2010, GRL, doi:10.1002/2015GL064457.
Busecke, J., A. L. Gordon, Z. Li, F. M. Bingham, and J. Font (2014), Subtropical surface layer salinity budget and the role of mesoscale turbulence, JGR: Oceans , doi:10.1002/2013JC009715.
Bingham, F. M., J. Busecke, A. L. Gordon, C. F. Giulivi, and Z. Li (2014), The North Atlantic subtropical surface salinity maximum as observed by Aquarius, JGR: Oceans, doi:10.1002/2014JC009825.