Personal profile

Key Research Interests

My research uses slocum gliders, a type of autonomous underwater vehicle, to investigate changes in mixing in seasonally stratified shelf seas around floating wind turbines. Enhanced turbulence around these structures will significantly impact the balance between stratification and mixing, leading to potentially significant impacts on the region’s biogeochemistry with changes to the oxygen and nutrient supplies.

Prior to this position my PhD focussed on a mooring timeseries from within the Weddell Sea to determine how Antarctic Bottom Water was changing in response to surface conditions. This work focussed on the role of wind in forcing boundary current dynamics as well as investigating the interaction of the boundary current with topography and subsequent boundary layer dynamics. Further work included idealised MITgcm simulations of a Weddell-like gyre to see how predicted long timescale changes impact the steady state gyre dynamics 

Career

Feb 2025 - Present: Senior Research Associate in Shelf Sea Oceanography (eSWEETS3), University of East Anglia

October 2024: PDRA (SO-CHIC), British Antarctic Survey (continuation of PhD)

March - June 2023: Communications Assistant, British Antarctic Survey

September - December 2022: Visiting Student Researcher, Stanford University  

Academic Background

2020-25: PhD in Physical Oceanography, British Antarctic Survey and University of Southampton

2015-29: MSci in Physics, Imperial College London

Keywords

  • Climate Change / Climate Science
  • Oceanography
  • Physics