About Me
I’m a Physical Oceanography PhD candidate in the MIT–WHOI Joint Program, where I study how the deep ocean evolves over decades to centuries. My research focuses on understanding how global ocean circulation has and will change over the 20th and 21st centuries, the mechanisms driving those changes, and their detectability in observational records. More broadly, I’m interested in all research that combining models and observations to improve our understanding of Earth’s ocean dynamics, climate variability, and impacts of anthropogenic forcing.
Before starting my PhD, I earned a B.S. in Mathematics and Data Science from the University of California, Irvine.
Publications
- Meza, A., & Gebbie, G. (2025). Wind-driven mid-depth Pacific cooling in a dynamically consistent ocean state estimate. Journal of Geophysical Research. Oceans, 130(10), e2025JC022462. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JC022462
Software
- SpectralCorr: power spectrum-based correlation significance testing for autocorrelated time series
Summer Schools & Workshops
- ECCO Summer School 2025, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA, USA — May 19–30, 2025
- Tracer Mixing in Fluids Across Planetary Scales Summer School, Brin Mathematics Research Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA — July 8–19, 2024
Outreach and Leadership
- Student Member of the American Meterological Society Committee on Climate Variability and Change (2025 - Present)
- Co-organizer of High Performance Data Analysis In Oceanography Workshop (2024, workshop repository can be found here)
- JP ASK Graduate Application Mentor (2021 - Present)
- MIT-WHOI Joint Program Student Representative and Vice President (2022 - 2024)
- MIT-WHOI Summer Math Refresher Instructor (2023 - 2024)
- Co-organizer of the Graduate Climate Conference (2023)