The world’s climate is complex — land, oceans, atmosphere, all in a constant state of change. Feedback loops, seasonal cycles, complicated energy exchange mechanisms … how do you make sense of it all to figure out what’s going on?
Alex is a climate scientist and a physical oceanographer working on the role of the ocean in the climate system, in particular how the ocean will change in the future and what effect this has on the critters that live there. His research includes understanding how the East Australian Current will accelerate in the future, simulating how we can use virtual tuna in ocean simulations to guide sustainable fisheries and explain how a rising air in the tropical Indian Ocean can generate a marine heatwave in the South Atlantic.
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Associate Prof. Alex Sen Gupta, climate researcher at the University of UNSW, speaking to students at the 40th Professor Harry Messel International Science School, ISS2019: Frontier Science — The University of Sydney, Australia, July 2019.