Dr Joshua Lanham
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
About
Joshua is a postdoctoral researcher in Physical Oceanography. His work focuses on Southern Ocean and Atlantic water-mass dynamics, with particular interest in Antarctic Bottom Water, Circumpolar Deep Water, and shelf processes in the Bellingshausen Sea near the Antarctic Peninsula.
Research
Research interests
- Physical oceanography
- Southern Ocean processes
- Climate science
- Inverse methods
- Machine learning
- Mapping
Joshua combines observations (GO-SHIP, Argo, and autonomous gliders), inverse methods and machine learning to study ocean water masses and their variability. Using both observational datasets, models, and ocean state estimates (e.g. ECCO/MITgcm), he investigates the processes controlling ocean circulation and its interaction with Antarctic ice shelves.
Joshua's current work focuses on meltwater pathways in the Bellingshausen Sea and on developing data-driven approaches to map transient tracers such as CFCs, with the aim of better understanding ocean ventilation and heat transport.