Photograph of Dr Alejandra Sanchez-Franks
Group
Marine Physics and Ocean Climate
Site
Southampton
Email
alsf at noc.ac.uk

Research Interests

  • Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC)

  • volume and property transports, ocean heat content

  • monsoon processes in the tropical Indian Ocean 

  • impacts of climate change on the global oceans

PhD students:

  • Anneke Sperling (2023-present; supervisor): Do ocean currents stick together? AMOC proxies and processes
  • Harry Ashton-Key (2023-present; co-supervisor): AMOC and tipping points
  • Jack Giddings (2017-2020; co-supervisor): ocean processes triggering monsoon rainfall

Recent fieldwork:

Education:

  • PhD, Marine and Atmospheric Science (2015), Stony Brook University
  • B. Math, Honours Applied Mathematics (2010), University of Waterloo

Links:

Google scholar profile

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Member of the IAPSO executive committee (2019-present), http://iapso.iugg.org 

Chair and founder of the IAPSO Early Career Scientists working group (2018-present), https://www.iapsoecs.org 

Member of the Challenger Society council (2017-2020), https://www.challenger-society.org.uk 

MEZCAL (PI; 2023-2026) - Methods for Extending the horiZontal Coverage of the Amoc Latitudinally and retrospectively

ALPACA (co-I; 2023-2026) - Advancing the Long-range Prediction, Attribution, and forecast Calibration of Amoc and its climate impacts

LEGACY (co-I; 2022-2023) - Labrador Current Governs North Atlantic Climate System?

NEW NORMAL (PI; 2021-2023) - NEar surface Warming in the INdian Ocean and Rainfall Monsoon Anomaly Links

SNAPDRAGON - investigating the dynamics of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in the subpolar N. Atlantic

RAPID - programme monitoring the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation from a mooring array at 26N

BoBBLE - the role of Bay of Bengal in South Asian monsoon variability