Julia Neme

Physical Oceanographer

Postdoctoral research fellow at University of Tasmania, Australia.

I am a physical oceanographer interested in large scale ocean dynamics and processes driving variability across different timescales. My main region of interest is the Southern Ocean and Antarctic margins, particularly in the context of climate change. I have worked with low and high resolution global ocean/sea models, atmospheric reanalysis data and CMIP6 model output. I have also brought into my work theoretical frameworks (e.g. a barotropic vorticity budget) to further study ocean dynamics.

Currently based in nipaluna, the land of the muwinina people. I pay my respects to the traditional owners of this land who did not survive British colonisation and to the Tasmanian Aboriginal people who are the custodians of this land, as well as Indigenous Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded and this always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.

Photo by Andy Esho

Weddell Gyre

A bit on the dynamics of the Weddell Gyre from my PhD research.

Publications

Published

  • Bennetts, Luke G and Shakespeare, Callum J and Vreugdenhil, Catherine A and others. (2024). Closing the loops on Southern Ocean dynamics: From the circumpolar current to ice shelves and from bottom mixing to surface waves. Review of Geophysics, 62(3), https://doi.org/10.1029/2022RG000781.
  • Neme, J., M. H. England, A. M. Hogg, H. Khatri, and S. M. Griffies (2023). The role of bottom friction in mediating the response of the Weddell Gyre circulation to changes in surface stress and buoyancy fluxes. Journal of Physical Oceanography, https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-23-0165.1, in press.
  • Morrison, A. K., Huneke, W. G., Neme, J., Spence, P., Hogg, A. M., England, M. H., & Griffies, S. M. (2023). Sensitivity of Antarctic shelf waters and abyssal overturning to local winds. Journal of Climate, 1-32, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0858.1.
  • Neme, J., England, M. H., & McC. Hogg, A. (2022). Projected changes of surface winds over the Antarctic continental margin. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(16), https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098820.
  • Neme, J., England, M. H., & Hogg, A. M. (2021). Seasonal and interannual variability of the Weddell gyre from a high‐resolution global ocean‐sea ice simulation during 1958–2018. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126(11), https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC017662.

CV

Employment

  • Postdoctoral research fellow (2025-present), Australian National University.
  • Postdoctoral research fellow (2024-2025), University of Tasmania.
  • Research assistant (2023-2024), University of New South Wales.
  • Research assistant (2022), University of New South Wales.

Education

  • PhD in Climate Science (2020-2024): "Variability and forcing mechanisms of the Weddell Gyre"
  • Licenciatura in Physical Oceanography (2014-2019): "Surface variability of the Brazil Current in the period 2009 - 2015"

Teaching experience

  • Course development (2024), University of Tasmania.
  • Teaching assistant (2021-2023), University of New South Wales.
  • Teaching assistant (2018-2021), University of Buenos Aires.

Sea-going experience

  • R/V Investigator, Multidisplinary Investigations of the Southern Ocean (2024), 10 weeks.
  • R/V Investigator, Eastern Australia Current (2022), 3 weeks.
  • Puerto Deseado, South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (2019), 2 weeks.