Wilma Huneke

Wilma Huneke is a Research Fellow at the Research School of Earth Sciences (RSES) at the Australian National University (ANU). She holds an associated investigator role at the Australian Centre of Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) since 2022 and previously participated in an ARC Discovery Project on Antarctic ocean risks (2020). Her research focuses on coupled atmosphere-ocean models to study large-scale ocean circulation, Antarctic ice shelf dynamics, and the impact of ocean resolution in climate systems.

Wilma completed her PhD in climate physics at the University of Tasmania, Australia (2019), following studies at GEOMAR in Germany. Her doctoral work explored the Antarctic Slope Front using ocean-ice shelf models. She has taught courses such as EMSC4017 (Research Methods for Earth Sciences, 2021) and EMSC2021 (Fundamentals of Climate Science, 2023).

Her research interests span Antarctic ocean dynamics, ice shelf interactions, climate modeling, and the influence of ocean resolution on coupled systems. She also investigates marine ecosystems and their responses to environmental changes in the Antarctic Peninsula region.

Wilma has supervised HDR students Hanyu Meng (ANU, 2022–ongoing) and Chenhui Wang (ANU, 2021), and mentored undergraduate researchers including Franka List (DAAD project, 2021), John Reilly (CLEX summer project, 2021), and Ellen Zheng (ANU, 2020). She is affiliated with the Climate and Fluid Physics research group at ANU and contributes to software development via the COSIMA project.

Her work includes projects like

• Ocean feedbacks to Antarctic ice melt (Supervisor)
• Southern Ocean Circulation (Supervisor)

No scientific awards have been explicitly mentioned in the provided texts. She collaborates through labs/teams including the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CLEX) and maintains an active GitHub profile with repositories on Antarctic ocean modeling and climate science tools.