My research uses buoyancy driven autonomous gliders 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