Dr Denise Fernandez

Biography

• I use modern observations and model output to help interpret ocean processes at multiple time and spatial scales. My latest interests involve ocean dynamics and biogeochemistry, particularly I am investigating how the oxygen content in the ocean is changing in parallel with increasing ocean temperatures.
• In my role as an Objective Leader for the Antarctic Science Platform I have produced a synthesis report on the currently available ocean observations and models in the Ross Sea. 

• My most recent publications on New Zealand and Southern Ocean dynamics and change are:

  • Thomalla, S., Beadling, R.L., du Plessis, M., De Souza, E., Fernandez, D., Gille, S.T., Josey, S.A., MacGilchrist, G.M., Marouchos, A., McMahon, C.R., Pezzi, L, Schultz, C., Shi, J-R., Tripathy, S.C., Turner, K. (2024), State of the Climate in 2023. Chapter 6: Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (in press).

     

  • Robinson, N., Stevens, C., Rack, W., Bowen, M., Chapman, R., Cummings, V., Fernandez, D. ... & van Uitregt, V. (2023). The 2023 Aotearoa New Zealand Sea Ice Emergency Summit. New Zealand Science Review, 79

   

  • Silvano, A., Purkey, S., Gordon, A. L., Castagno, P., Stewart, A., Rintoul, S., ...Fernandez, D., … & Lee, W. S. (2023). Observing Antarctic bottom water in the Southern Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10.

     

  • Zilberman, N. V., Thierry, V., King, B., Alford, M., André, X., Balem, K., ... Fernandez D., … & Van Wijk, E. M. (2023). Observing the full ocean volume using Deep Argo floats. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10.

     

  • Fernandez, D., Bowen, M., & Sutton, P. (2022). South Pacific Ocean dynamics redistribute ocean heat content and modulate heat exchange with the atmosphere. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL100965 https://doi. org/10.1029/2022GL100965

    See my google scholar link for more articles