JuliaÌýMoriarty

  • (She/her)
  • Assistant Professor
  • ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC SCIENCES

Coastal oceanography • Numerical modeling • Sediment transport • Biogeochemistry

My research interests include the transport and fate of sediment and nutrients in estuaries, continental shelves, deltas, and wetlands; as well as coupled hydrodynamic-sediment transport-biogeochemistry 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó and the development of numerical modeling approaches.

I also lead the Coastal Oceanography Modeling Group. For more about me, see an interview I did with INSTAAR news: "Meet Julia Moriarty."

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Education

  • PhD: Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, the College of William & Mary, 2017
  • MS: Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, the College of William & Mary, 2012
  • BS: University of Chicago, 2009

Awards

  • Early Career 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó Program Award, Department of Energy, 2023
  • Mendenhall Postdoctoral 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó Fellowship, U.S. Geological Survey, 2017
  • Student Modeler Award, Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System, 2017
  • Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing, AGU, J. of Geophysical 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó, 2016
  • George R. Healy Fellowship Award, College of William & Mary, 2016
  • Ray Krone Award, International Conference on Cohesive Sediment Transport Processes, 2015
  • Anchor QEA Scholarship Recipient, Anchor QEA, 2016
  • East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute Fellow, NSF, 2013

Current students and postdoc

Courses taught

  • ATOC 1060: Our Changing Environment
    • Introduction to the climate system and past, present, and future climate change.
  • ATOC 4500/5500: Coastal Oceanography
    • Introduction to physical, geological, chemical and biological aspects of coastal oceanography.
  • ATOC 4850/5850: Numerical Methods and Modeling Lab
    • Introduction to numerical methods in ATOC, for undergraduate and graduate students. Learn to create, write, and use numerical 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó of complex systems. Focuses on climate, ocean, and atmospheric 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó. Formerly ATOC 4500/7500.
  • ATOC 5051: Introduction to Physical Oceanography
    • Core course for ATOC graduate students that covers the fundamental concepts of physical oceanography.
  • ATOC 6020: Seminar in Coastal Oceanography
    • Covers selected advanced topics in estuarine and shelf science.

Publications

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