Member Since 2008
Leah Johnson
Senior Oceanographer, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington
Professional Experience
Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington
Senior Oceanographer
2021 - Present
University of Washington Seattle
Student
2011 - 2018
Education
University of Washington Seattle
Doctorate
2018
Honors & Awards
Ocean Sciences Early Career Award
Received December 2024
Publications
Spatiotemporal Topic Modeling Reveals Storm‐Driven Advection and Stirring Control Plankton Community...

Phytoplankton communities in the open ocean are high‐dimensional, sparse, and spatiotemporally heterogeneous. The advent of automated imaging...

November 07, 2024
AGU Abstracts
The impact of mixed layer variability on SST prediction
ARABIAN SEA CIRCULATION AND ITS IMPACT ON AIR-SEA INTERACTIONS, BIOGEOCHEMISTRY, AND ECOLOGY II ORAL
air-sea interactions | 23 february 2024
Leah Johnson, Simon P. de Szoeke, Aneesh Subramani...
Subseasonal to seasonal forecasts are likely to improve from better sea surface temperature (SST) predictions, as SST is the bottom boundary condition...
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Particle dynamics, sinking carbon export and the demise of the North Atlantic spring bloom: Results from the EXPORTS-NA field campaign
NEW THOUGHTS TO OLD QUESTIONS: QUANTIFYING CARBON EXPORT AND ATTENUATION AND THEIR CONTROLLING MECHANISMS IN THE OCEAN I ORAL
ocean biology and biogeochemistry | 22 february 2024
David Siegel, Margaret Estapa, Adrian Burd, Erik F...
The sinking particle flux dominates the export and long-term sequestration of organic carbon by the ocean's biological pump and a myriad of ecological...
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Precipitating Fronts in the Bay of Bengal
ARABIAN SEA CIRCULATION AND ITS IMPACT ON AIR-SEA INTERACTIONS, BIOGEOCHEMISTRY, AND ECOLOGY I POSTER
air-sea interactions | 22 february 2024
Taylor McKie, Leah Johnson, Tamara L. Schlosser, D...
The one-dimensional impacts of precipitation on the surface ocean are known to create complex patterns in vertical stratification and enhance interact...
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