About Me
I am a Physical Oceanography PhD candidate in the MIT–WHOI Joint Program. My research focuses on how global ocean circulation and its drivers influence the distribution of heat and other tracers. I am particularly interested in identifying, quantifying, and understanding abyssal circulation variability over the modern era through numerical simulations and observations.
Before starting my PhD, I earned an A.S. in Mathematics from Fullerton College and a B.S. in Mathematics 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)