Dr Wilma Huneke
Research Fellow
email wilma.huneke@anu.edu.au
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I joined ANU as part of an ARC funded Discovery Project on the Risks of rapid ocean warming at the Antarctic continental margin where I used a global high-resolution ocean model to study the current system around Antarctica in 2020. In 2022, I started an ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CLEX) research fellow position at ANU and became an associated investigator at the Australian Centre of Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) in the same year. I now mostly work with coupled atmosphere-ocean models to study the large-scale ocean circulation and the impact of ocean resolution in the coupled system.

I studied climate physics at GEOMAR, Germany, and received my PhD in 2019 from the University of Tasmania, Australia. My PhD research focused on the dynamics of the Antarctic Slope Front using an ocean-ice shelf model with both idealised and realistic configurations of the ocean around Antarctica.

Find out more at my github profile.

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Teaching information

Teaching at ANU

EMSC4017 Research Methods for Earth Sciences (Semester 2, 2021)

EMSC2021 Fundamentals of Climate Science (Semester 2, 2023)

Student supervision

HDR students

  • Hanyu Meng, ANU, 2022 ongoing
  • Chenhui Wang, ANU, 2021

Undergraduate students

  • Franka List, Geomar, DAAD world wide summer project, 2021
  • John Reilly, UTas, CLEX summer project, 2021
  • Ellen Zheng, ANU, semester-long research project, 2020

Supervised students

Publications

Submitted

Published/Accepted

Bennetts L. G., Shakespeare C. J., Vreugdenhil C. A., ... Huneke W. G. C., ... (2024), Closing the loops on Southern Ocean dynamics: From the circumpolar current to ice shelves and from bottom mixing to surface waves, Reviews of Geophysics, 62, e2022RG000781, doi:10.1029/2022RG000781

Huneke W. G. C., Hobbs W. R., Klocker A., & Naughten K. A. (2023), Dynamic response to ice shelf basal meltwater relevant to explain observed sea ice trends near the Antarctic continental Shelf. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL105435. doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105435

Huneke W. G. C., Morrison A. K., & Hogg A. M. (2023), Decoupling of the surface and bottom-intensified Antarctic Slope Current in regions of dense shelf water export. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL104834, doi:10.1029/2023GL104834

Morrison A. K., Huneke W. G. C. , Neme J., Spence P., Hogg A. McC., England M. H. and Griffies S. M. (2023), Sensitivity of Antarctic shelf waters and abyssal overturning to local winds, Journal of Climate, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0858.1

Huneke W. G. C., Morrison A. K., & Hogg A. M. (2022), Spatial and subannual variability of the Antarctic Slope Current in an eddying oceansea ice model. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52(3), 347–361, doi:10.1175/jpo-d-21-0143.1

Huneke W. G. C., Klocker A., Galton-Fenzi B. K. (2019), Deep bottom mixed layer drives intrinsic variability of the Antarctic Slope Front, Journal of Physical Oceanography, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-19-0044.1

Huneke W. G. C., Huhn O., Schröder M. (2016), Water masses in the Bransfield Strait and adjacent seas, austral summer 2013, Polar Biology, doi:10.1007/s00300-016-1936-8

Herr H., Viquerat S., Siegel V., Kock K-H, Dorschel B., Huneke W. G. C., Bracher A., Schröder M., Gutt J. (2016), Horizontal niche partitioning of humpback and fin whales around the West Antarctic Peninsula: evidence from a concurrent whale and krill survey, Polar Biology, doi:10.1007/s00300-016-1927-9

Dorschel B., Gutt J., Huhn O., Bracher A., Huntemann M., Huneke W., Gebhardt C., Schröder M., Herr H. (2016), Environmental information for a marine ecosystem research approach for the northern Antarctic Peninsula (RV Polarstern expedition PS81, ANT-XXIX/3), Polar Biology, doi:0.1007/s00300-015-1861-2

Segelkern-Voigt A., Bracher A., Dorschel B., Gutt J., Huneke W., Link H., Piepenburg D. (2016), Spatial distribution patterns of ascidians (Ascidiacea: Tunicata) on the continental shelves off the northern Antarctic Peninsula. Polar Biology, doi:10.1007/s00300-016-1909-y