A brief academic history...


  • 1994 - 1997 I was introduced to atmosphere, ocean and climate research as an undergraduate in Physics and Meteorology at the University of Reading.

  • 1997 - 1998 I then spent a happy 15 months working with John Marshall in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) at MIT, on coupled ocean-atmosphere processes in the North Atlantic, and the role they play in decadal climate variability.

  • 1999 - 2001 As a PhD student supervised by David Marshall in the Oceanography Group at Reading, I studied the time-dependent dynamics of the thermohaline circulation, learning much about the dynamical adjustment of the overturning circulation to changes at high latitudes.

  • 2002 - 2004 To lean something about smaller-scale oceanography, I worked as a postdoc with Chris Garrett in the Ocean Physics group at the University of Victoria on ocean mixing and the dynamics of flow through straits. I was lucky enough to be involved in several fieldwork campaigns in Japan and the Canadian Arctic. As a result I have become very interested in the dynamics of the Arctic Ocean and its interaction with the rest of the global circulation.

  • 2005 - 2007 As a Royal Society university research fellow in the Meteorology Department at the University of Reading my research focused on the thermohaline circulation and its connection to high-latitude ocean dynamics in both hemispheres...with collaborators in Sweden, Germany, the US and Canada, as well as around the UK.

  • 2007 Now I'm a Royal Society university research fellow and lecturer here at the University of Oxford! My research involves numerical, analytical and observational studies of large scale ocean dynamics and climate.



    Approaches

    I dabble in theory, use models as tools, and spend time at sea (and on the ice!) to collect data. For an idea of what I get up to in the field take a peep at the Canadian Archipelago Throughflow Study page, or follow my diary while I'm on board the CCGS Henry Larsen in August 2007.