About Me

Laura Gruenburg is a physical oceanographer in the Ecosystem Dynamics and Assessment Branch at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Sandy Hook, NJ. She is interested in how changes in the physical environment affect biological systems and human populations, as well as the exchange and redistribution of physical properties between ocean regions at many scales. She received her undergraduate degree from Vassar College and her Ph.D. from Columbia University studying the Indonesian Seas. As a postdoc at Stony Brook University Laura developed Indicators of ecosystem health in the New York Bight. Laura is currently working as an ocean modeler for the northeast region as part of the NOAA Climate, Ecosystems, and Fisheries Initiative where she aims to use ocean models to inform fisheries management. She has experience at sea, in research computing, data analysis, and open science, and in classroom teaching, science outreach, and mentorship.

Ph.D. Ocean Climate Physics 2021
M.Phil Ocean Climate Physics 2019
M.A. Ocean Climate Physics 2017
Columbia University, New York, NY
Advisor: Arnold L. Gordon

B.A. Earth Science 2012
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

Recent Publications

Weisberg, S.J., S.M. Roberts, L.K. Gruenburg, T.G. Schwemmer, T. Menz, I.F. Fenwick, J.A. Nye, and R.G. Asch. in press. Gulf Stream Intrusions Associated with Extreme Seasonal Fluctuations among Larval Fishes. Marine Ecology Progress Series

Gruenburg, L.K., A.L. Gordon, and A.M. Thurnherr. 2023. Indonesian Throughflow partitioning between the Leeuwin and South Equatorial Currents. Journal of Physical Oceanography 53 2159-2170, https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-22-0205.1

Sprintall, J., A. Biastoch, L.K. Gruenburg, and H.E. Phillips. 2022. Ocean Basin Connections. In: The Indian Ocean and its role in the global climate system. , ed. by C.C. Ummenhofer, and R.R. Hood, Raleigh. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, n.n.. ISBN 978-0-12-822698-8

Li, M., D. Yuan, A.L. Gordon, L.K. Gruenburg, X. Li, R. Li, X. Yin, Y. Yang, C. Corvianatie, J. Wei, and S. Yang. 2021. A Strong sub-thermocline intrusion of the North Equatorial Subsurface Current into the Makassar Strait in 2016-2017. Geophysical Research Letters https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL092505.

Li, M., A.L. Gordon, L.K. Gruenburg, J. Wei, and S. Yang. 2020. Interannual to decadal response of the Indonesian Throughflow verical profile to Indo-Pacific forcing. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087679.

A.L. Gordon, A. Napitu, B.A. Huber, L.K. Gruenburg, K. Pujiana, T. Agustiadi, A. Kuswardani, N. Mbay, and A. Setiawan. 2019. Makassar Strait Throughflow Seasonal and Interannual Variability, an Overview. JGR Oceans https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC014502

Gruenburg, L.K., and A.L. Gordon. 2018. Variability in Makassar Strait heat flux and its effect on the eastern tropical Indian Ocean. Oceanography 31(2), https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2018.220

Li, M., A.L. Gordon, J. Wei, L.K. Gruenburg, and G. Jiang. 2018. Multi-decadal timeseries of the Indonesian Throughflow. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans 81(2018) 84-95, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2018.02.001

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