About Me
I’m a Physical Oceanography PhD candidate in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, studying how the deep \((\geq 2000 \textrm{ meters})\) ocean evolves on timescales ranging from decades to centuries. My research is primarily focused on understanding how global ocean circulation has changed and will change over the 20th–21st centuries, what drives those changes, and whether they can be detected in available observations. More broadly, I’m drawn to all projects that combine models and observations to advance our understanding of Earth’s climate variability and long-term change. 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)