Julius Busecke

About me

I’m a climate scientist and open-source software engineer based in Brooklyn, NY, with over 15 years of experience in interdisciplinary climate research and over a decade of leadership in scientific software development.

My scientific work spans ocean circulation, climate variability, and climate change, while my technical work centers on developing scalable, cloud-native data infrastructure to empower science and machine learning teams.

I specialize in connecting diverse data sources—from in-situ sensors to global Earth system models—and developing tools and workflows that make these data more accessible, usable, and reproducible. Rather than maintaining a single tool, I focus on improving ecosystems: integrating open-source projects, identifying critical gaps, and translating between scientists and engineers to accelerate progress on complex challenges like climate change.

As a longtime contributor to the Pangeo community, I’m committed to open science and inclusive collaboration. I have lead and advised interdisciplinary teams, and regularly speak and teach about data science, visualization, and climate analytics using Python.

If you're interested in collaborating, exploring a shared project, or just talking science and infrastructure—feel free to reach out!

Past Events and Presentations

  1. Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024

    New Orleans, LA

    Presentations
    The missing sub-grid air-sea heat flux in climate models
  2. AMS Meeting 2023

    Virtual

    Presentations
    Reproducible IPCC Science Using Pangeo Tools in the Cloud
  3. Scipy 2022

    Austin, TX

    Presentations
    Cutting Edge Climate Science in the Cloud with Pangeo
  4. Ocean Sciences Meeting 2022

    Virtual

    Presentations
    Oxygen Minimum Zones in the Tropical Pacific - Will they expand or shrink?
    No Supercomputer, no problem! - Analyzing Petabyte scale climate data in your browser with Pangeo.
  5. LANL COSIM Climate and Ocean Group Webinar

    Virtual

    Presentations
    Going both far AND fast as a community - Climate Science with Pangeo
  6. UCLA IDRE Open Science Symposium

    Virtual

    Presentations
    Open Science with Pangeo
  7. AMS Annual Meeting 2022

    Virtual

    Presentations
    CMIP6 in the cloud - Open, fast, and accessible climate science with Pangeo
  8. OCB Science Meeting 2021

    Virtual

    Presentations
    Ocean CDR storage permanence
  9. Dask Distributed Summit 2021

    Virtual

    Presentations
    Dask and the ocean death zones - Lessons from a real life earth science workflow with a ‘fullish’ pangeo stack
  10. Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020

    San Diego, CA

    Presentations
    How important is the Equatorial Undercurrent for biogeochemistry and global climate predictions?
  11. MLSE Conference Columbia 2020

    Virtual

    Presentations
    Open Source Tools for Big Data (Climate) Science
  12. EarthCube Annual Meeting 2020

    Virtual

    Presentations
    CMIP6 without the interpolation: Grid-native analysis with Pangeo in the cloud
  13. GEO/AOS/PEI Climate Seminar 2020

    Princeton, NJ

    Presentations
    When details matter to the earth system - From ocean eddies to the Equatorial Undercurrent
  14. GFDL Lab Review 2019

    Princeton, NJ

    Presentations
    The Equatorial Undercurrent and the Oxygen Minimum Zone in the Pacific
  15. OCB Summer Workshop 2019

    Woods Hole, MA

    Presentations
    The equatorial undercurrent and the Oxygen Minimum Zone in the Pacific
  16. WHOI PO Seminar 2019

    Woods Hole

    Presentations
    A fourth dimension to ocean mixing: Mesoscale mixing related to large scale climate variability
  17. AGU Fall Meeting 2018

    Washington DC

    Presentations
    The importance of the equatorial current system for variability in the oxygen minimum zones
  18. Ocean Deoxygenation Conference 2018

    Kiel, Germany

    Presentations
    How important is the equatorial current system for the extent of the tropical oxygen minimum zones?
  19. OCB Summer Workshop 2018

    Woods Hole

    Presentations
    How important are forced changes in the equatorial current system for the extent of tropical oxygen minimum zones?
  20. Ocean Sciences Meeting 2018

    Portland, OR

    Presentations
    Interannual Variability of Ocean Mesoscale Mixing Correlated with ENSO
  21. AGU Fall Meeting 2016

    San Francisco

    Presentations
    Time variable eddy mixing in the global Sea Surface Salinity maxima
  22. CLIVAR Open Science Conference 2016

    Qingdao, China

    Presentations
    Time variable eddy mixing in the surface salinity maxima of the global ocean
  23. Ocean Sciences Meeting 2014

    Honolulu

    Presentations
    Evidence for the origin of the subsurface salinity maximum in the subtropical North Atlantic

Skills

Documentation & Publishing

Data Analytics & Visualization

Cloud & Data Platforms

Science

Experience

  1. Affiliate Graduate Faculty

    University of Hawaii

  2. Lead of Open Research

    m2lines at NYU

  3. Manager of Data and Computing

    NSF LEAP-STC at Columbia University

  4. Senior Staff Associate

    Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

  5. Associate Research Scientist

    Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

  6. Postdoctoral Research Associate

    Princeton University, Department of Geosciences

  7. Graduate Research Associate

    Columbia University, Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences

  8. Research Assistant

    GEOMAR, Department of Theory and Modeling

Publications

  1. Samudra: An AI Global Ocean Emulator for Climate

    Samudra: An AI Global Ocean Emulator for Climate

    S. Dheeshjith, A. Subel, A. Adcroft, J. Busecke, C. Fernandez‐Granda, S. Gupta, L. Zanna

  2. Computing Extreme Storm Surges in Europe Using Neural Networks

    Computing Extreme Storm Surges in Europe Using Neural Networks

    T.H.J. Hermans, C.B. Hammouda, S. Treu, T. Tiggeloven, A. Couasnon, J.J.M. Busecke, R.S.W.V.D. Wal

  3. The Overlooked Sub-Grid Air-Sea Flux in Climate Models

    The Overlooked Sub-Grid Air-Sea Flux in Climate Models

    J. Busecke, D. Balwada, P. Martin`, T. Nicholas, C. Stern, Z. Johnson, R. Abernathey

  4. Projecting Changes in the Drivers of Compound Flooding in Europe Using CMIP6 Models

    Projecting Changes in the Drivers of Compound Flooding in Europe Using CMIP6 Models

    T.H.J. Hermans, J.J.M. Busecke, T. Wahl, V. Malagón‐Santos, M.G. Tadesse, R.A. Jane, R.S.W.V.D. Wal

  5. ClimSim: A large multi-scale dataset for hybrid physics-ML climate emulation

    ClimSim: A large multi-scale dataset for hybrid physics-ML climate emulation

    NeurIPS 2023

    conference

    S. Yu, W. Hannah, L. Peng, J. Lin, M.A. Bhouri, R. Gupta, B. Lütjens, J.C. Will, G. Behrens, J. Busecke, M. Pritchard

  6. Anomalous Meltwater From Ice Sheets and Ice Shelves Is a Historical Forcing

    Anomalous Meltwater From Ice Sheets and Ice Shelves Is a Historical Forcing

    G.A. Schmidt, A. Romanou, L.A. Roach, K.D. Mankoff, Q. Li, C.D. Rye, M. Kelley, J.C. Marshall, J.J.M. Busecke

  7. Unique ocean circulation pathways reshape the Indian Ocean oxygen minimum zone with warming

    Unique ocean circulation pathways reshape the Indian Ocean oxygen minimum zone with warming

    S. Ditkovsky, L. Resplandy, J. Busecke

  8. Coastal vegetation and estuaries are collectively a greenhouse gas sink

    Coastal vegetation and estuaries are collectively a greenhouse gas sink

    J.A. Rosentreter, G.G. Laruelle, H.W. Bange, T.S. Bianchi, J.J.M. Busecke, W. Cai, B.D. Eyre, I. Forbrich, E.Y. Kwon, T. Maavara, N. Moosdorf, R.G. Najjar, V.V.S.S. Sarma, B.V. Dam, P. Regnier

  9. Diverging Fates of the Pacific Ocean Oxygen Minimum Zone and Its Core in a Warming World

    Diverging Fates of the Pacific Ocean Oxygen Minimum Zone and Its Core in a Warming World

    J.J.M. Busecke, L. Resplandy, S.J. Ditkovsky, J.G. John

  10. GCM-Filters: A Python Package for Diffusion-based Spatial Filtering of Gridded Data

    GCM-Filters: A Python Package for Diffusion-based Spatial Filtering of Gridded Data

    N. Loose, R. Abernathey, I. Grooms, J. Busecke, A. Guillaumin, E. Yankovsky, G. Marques, J. Steinberg, A. Ross, H. Khatri, S. Bachman, L. Zanna, P. Martin

  11. Diagnosing the Scale- and Space-Dependent Horizontal Eddy Diffusivity at the Global Surface Ocean

    Diagnosing the Scale- and Space-Dependent Horizontal Eddy Diffusivity at the Global Surface Ocean

    A. Nummelin, J.J.M. Busecke, T.W.N. Haine, R.P. Abernathey

  12. CMIP6 without the interpolation: Grid-native analysis with Pangeo in the cloud

    CMIP6 without the interpolation: Grid-native analysis with Pangeo in the cloud

    J. Busecke, R. Abernathey

  13. Reflections on the CLIVAR Early Career Scientists Symposium 2016

    Reflections on the CLIVAR Early Career Scientists Symposium 2016

    N.C. Swart, J. Busecke, G. Langendijk, K.A. Reed, S.M. Kang, E. Behrens, A. Frassoni, N.C. Baker, J.V. Durgadoo, V.N. Dike, D. Nath

  14. Differences Among Subtropical Surface Salinity Patterns

    Differences Among Subtropical Surface Salinity Patterns

    , A. Gordon, C. Giulivi, J. Busecke, F. Bingham

Education

  1. 2017 – Ph.D.

    Columbia University

    New York, USA

    Advisor: Prof. Arnold L. Gordon

    Major: Physical Oceanography

  2. 2015 – M.Phil

    Columbia University

    New York, USA

    Advisor: Prof. Arnold L. Gordon

    Major: Physical Oceanography

  3. 2012 – M.A.

    Columbia University

    New York, USA

    Advisor: Prof. Arnold L. Gordon

    Major: Physical Oceanography

  4. 2010 – B.Sc.

    Christians-Albrechts University/GEOMAR

    Kiel, Germany

    Advisor: Prof. Arne Biastoch

    Major: Physics of the earth system: Oceanography-Meteorology-Geophysics

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