Anneke Sperling

My research interests are large-scale ocean circulations and their impact on Earth's climate, air-sea interactions and polar physical oceanography. In my current research, I am assessing meridional coherence in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation using along-track satellite altimetry in combination with in-situ hydrographic measurements.

I obtained my BScH Marine Science with Oceanography and Robotics at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) in Oban, Scotland in 2023 and started in my current position as PhD student in October of the same year. During my undergraduate, I completed an internship at SAMS, where I analysed and compared bottom-pressure recorder data with sea surface height from gridded satellite altimetry in the subpolar North Atlantic as part of the CLASS (Climate Linked Atlantic Sector Science | National Oceanography Centre (noc.ac.uk)) Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Programme (Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Programme | UK-OSNAP (ukosnap.org)). I completed another internship at the Alfred-Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany, where I analysed seasonal variability of bio-physical parameters in the upper Arctic Ocean. I incorporated the results in my undergraduate dissertation, and part of the results were published in Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 12(1) (https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2023.00103). In July 2024 I participated in a research cruise along the eastern UK-OSNAP array.