I am an incoming graduate student working with Dr. Madeleine Youngs.  My research interests include meridional overturning circulation, ocean mixing, water mass transformation, and the ocean's role in climate.

Research Papers/Presentations/Posters:

Gnanadesikan, A., Fabiani, G., Liu, J., Gelderloos, R., Brett, G. J., Kevrekidis, Y., Haine, T., Pradal, M. A., Siettos, C. & Sleeman, J. (2024). Tipping points in overturning circulation mediated by ocean mixing and the configuration and magnitude of the hydrological cycle: A simple model. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 54(7), 1389-1409.

Gnanadesikan, A., Liu, J., Dutta, S., Feole, B., McCarthy, F., & Qian, J. (2025). Machine learning methods suggest that large regional changes in phytoplankton biomass produced by Earth System Models do not reflect realistic responses to changing climate. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 39(10), e2025GB008761.

Liu, J. & Gnanadesikan, A. (2024). Using Random Forests to Emulate and Understand the Phytoplankton Dynamics in High Latitudes in 2 Earth System Models under Climate Change. Abstract (GC13B-0202) presented at AGU24, 9-13 Dec.