I am a researcher at Northumbria University in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences. I have an interest in understanding the physical processes in the ocean, and how they interact with different elements of the earth system. In particular, I research the processes surrounding the ice in the polar oceans, investigating the interactions between ice shelves ice and buoyant meltwater plumes in the laboratory (and laboratory scale numerical modelling).
Research Interests
My research focuses on understanding how the cryosphere and oceans interact in a variety of scales. Currently my focus is on understanding ice shelf ocean interactions by conducting experiments in a laboratory setting. My PhD Project, “Experimental and Numerical Simulations of Boundary Effects on Internal Solitary Waves” employed a process-based approach. This project investigates how oceanic internal solitary waves (which are waves travel along density interfaces within the water column, and act in a “solitary” manner) interacts with sea ice. This was primarily a laboratory based study, utilising a 7m long flume tank in our laboratory, complelemeted with numerical simulations. Within all of these studies, diapycnal mixing of fluids is an important process to understand, and I have worked on tools to better understand this.
About Me
I am currently the Antarctic President of the UK Polar Network (UKPN), organising training, networking, education and outreach opportunities to support the next generation of early career polar researchers. I have outreach experience delivering sessions and organising larger projects as part of the ONE Planet Outreach project. In my spare time, I am a keen trombone player, playing with a local 2nd section brass band, Felling Band, and acting as charity trustee of the UniBrass Foundation to support university level brass banding.