Past Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Seminars
School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia

Date Speaker Title
Spring 2013 (Organiser: Rob Hall)
11 January Julia Slingo (Met Office) Society's growing vulnerability to natural hazards and implications for weather and climate research
18 January Chris Steele (UEA) Testing a new sea breeze selection method: A WRF simulated climatology for the southern North Sea
25 January Andrew Orr (BAS) High-resolution model strong wind event in Antarctica
1 February Andy Elvidge (UEA) Polar foehn warming over the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica
8 February Peter Cook (UEA) Heat flux from the sea due to wind-shear and convection
22 February Richard Greatbatch (Kiel) Combining observed wind stress with a coupled ocean model
1 March Mingxi Yang (PML) Inhale, exhale, how much (fast) does the ocean breathe?
8 March Gillian Damerell (UEA) Direct observations of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current transport on the northern flank of the Kerguelen Plateau
15 March Piers Forster (Leeds) 20th C warming - have the latest generation of climate models got it wrong?
22 March Vijay Tymms (Imperial College) Some remarks on darts
Autumn 2012 (Organiser: Manoj Joshi)
10 September Patrick Hyder (Met Office) Diagnosing potential causes of the HADGEM3 Southern Ocean warm sea surface temperature bias
28 September Dave Stevens (MTH) Decadal forecasts using the high-resolution HiGEM model
5 October Maarten Ambaum (Reading) On hypothesis testing and significance tests in science- the global warming example
12 October Elaine McDonagh (NOC) Ocean freshwater flux in the Atlantic Ocean
19 October Andrew Schurer (Edinburgh) Detection and attribution of climate change
2 November Stephen Lewis (Open) The meteorology of the Martian atmosphere
9 November Amanda Maycock (Cambridge) Stratospheric influences on climate
16 November Dave Chandler (Bristol) Meltwater flow in Greenland
23 November Chris Brierley (UCL) The climate of the Pliocene era
30 November Clare Goodess (ENV) Regional climate change scenarios
7 December Juni-Ichi Yano (Cambridge) Large-scale tropical atmospheric dynamics
14 December Chris Hughes (NOC) The joy of bottom pressure
Monday 17 December Colin Goldbatt Atmospheric physics of the apocalypse: the runaway greenhouse revisited
Summer 2012 (Organiser: ?)
Thursday 19 April Alberto Naveira Garabato (Southampton Univ) Is the Southern Ocean overturning circulation sensitive to decadal changes in wind forcing
20 April Dongliang Yuan (Qingdao, China) Tropical Pacific ENSO forced by Indian Ocean dipole through Indonesian throughflow
4 May Andrew Meijers (BAS) Journeys in the Southern Ocean: Dynamics from satellites, dense water formation and the inverse modelling of mixing. A grab-bag of research highlights
11 May Sunke Schmidtko (ENV, UEA) MIMOC - a new Monthly Isopycnal and Mixed-layer Ocean Climatology
18 May Jeff Ridley (Hadley Centre) Irreversible changes in the southern ocean with a warming climate
25 May Alex Brearley (Univ of Southampton) The East Greenland Boundary Current System South of Denmark Strait
1 June Sophie Fielding (BAS) Scotia Sea Antarctic krill dynamics and distribution, an acoustic perspective
8 June James Madison (Univ of Oxford) Eddy parameterisation and conservation principles: A geometric framework
15 June Manoj Joshi and Mark Claire (ENV, UEA) Astrobiology, habitability, and the climates of planets orbiting M-stars
Monday 18 June Jiuxing Xing (NOC Liverpool) Modelling processes in shelf seas
29 June Stephanie Waterman (NOC)
Wednesday 1 August Laura Herraiz-Borreguero (Univ of Tasmania) Sub-Amery Ice Shelf circulation: New results from borehole observations
Tuesday 14 August Toby Sherwin (SAMS) North Atlantic SeaGlider Surveys
Spring 2012 (Organiser: Tim Osborn)
20 January Dave Schultz (Manchester) Things your meteorology professor told you that were wrong
27 January Roger Braithwaite (Manchester) Increased glacier melt under a warming climate
3 February Paul Myers (University of Alberta) Labrador Sea variability and links to higher and lower latitutdes
10 February Peter Cook Measuring heat flux from the sea
17 February Rob Hall Internal tide energetics in Monterey Submarine Canyon
24 February Doug Smith (Hadley Centre, Met Office) Predicting the climate of the coming decade
2 March Rob Wilson (St Andrews) Not just wet feet: The multiple challenges of Scottish Dendroclimatology
9 March Xiaoming Zhai Exploring the role of eddies in the ocean
23 March Stuart Cunningham (NOC) Interannual variability in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation at 26.5oN
30 March Manoj Joshi Climate models and Earth system models - what the differences are and why they're important
Autumn 2011 (Organiser: Steve Dorling)
30 September Chris Bell (Weatherquest), Steve Dorling, Nick Earl, Chris Steele Sea breezes, energy density and extreme events - the wind climate of the UK
7 October Karen Assmann (BAS) Variability of circumpolar deep water transport onto the Amundsen Sea shelf
14 October Helene Hewitt (Hadley Centre) Arctic sea ice: What happened this year and what is projected for the future
21 October John Taylor (MIT) Turbulence, mixing, and blooms at ocean fronts
28 October Stephen Belcher (University of Reading) The wind in the willows: The fluid mechanics of forest-atmosphere CO2 exchange
4 November Peter Knippertz (University of Leeds) Predicting European windstorms from days to decades [Abstract]
11 November Nathan Bindoff (University of Tasmania) Consequences of climate change for Tasmania
18 November Ben Harden Greenland barrier winds: Impacts on ocean circulation in the windiest region of the World's oceans
Monday 21 November Helen Phillips (University of Tasmania) Observations of the non-equivalent barotropic structure of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
2 December Nathan Bindoff (University of Tasmania) The Southern Ocean's evolving state over the last three decades inferred from ocean salinity, temperature, oxygen and altimetry
9 December Sunke Schmidtko Tropical Oxygen Minimum Zones (ventilation, trends and consequences for pelagic fish)
16 December PhD Students
Summer 2011 (Organiser: Dave Stevens)
6 May Ed Hawkins (University of Reading) Uncertainty in future climate and the risk of a collapse of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation
13 May John Turner (BAS) Polar climate variability
20 May Jonathan Gregory (University of Reading) FAMOUS simulations of glacial inception and the last glacial cycle
27 May Jean-Baptiste Sallee (BAS) Mean-flow and topography control on surface eddy mixing
3 June Anca Brookshaw (Met Office) Seasonal forecasting: the good, the bad... and the rest
7 June James Screen (University of Melbourne) Recent changes in Arctic storm activity and snowfall, and their impacts on the sea ice
10 June Jon Robson (University of Reading) The rapid warming of the North Atlantic in the mid 1990s: Mechanisms and predictions
17 June Mat Collins (University of Exeter) Techniques for dealing with uncertainties in climate change projections
24 June Martin Wadley Mixing in the Southern Ocean - Tracer modelling within the DIMES project
7 July Penny Holliday (NOC) Changing fluxes of freshwater from the Arctic Ocean to the North Atlantic
8 July POSTPONED Andy Sturman (University of Canterbury, New Zealand Assessing the sustainability of vineyard regions in a changing climate: an application in mesoscale meteorology and climatology
19 July Alan Condron (University of Massachusetts) Assessing the effectiveness of different freshwater drainage pathways at triggering past abrupt climate change
Spring 2011 (Organiser: Ian Renfrew)
21 January 1st year PhD students Various
Thursday 27 January POSTPONED Penny Holliday (NOCS) Changing fluxes of freshwater from the Arctic Ocean to the North Atlantic
4 February Agatha de Boer (ENV) The Atlantic overturning circulation is not driven by meridional density gradients
11 February Cathryn Birch (Univ of Leeds) Atmospheric observations and model evaluation over the central Arctic Ocean
18 February Katharine Giles (UCL) Exploring the polar oceans with satellite radar altimetry
Thursday 24 February Penny Tranter (Met Office)
25 February Nick Klingaman (Univ of Reading) Climate drivers of rainfall variability in Queensland, Australia
4 March Ed Hanna (Univ of Sheffield) Use of Twentieth Century Reanalysis data in the construction of a new Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance record 1871-2010
11 March Adrian Jenkins (BAS) Ocean forcing on ice sheet evolution in West Antarctica
18 March Gillian Damerell (ENV) Temporal variability of diapycnal mixing in Shag Rocks Passage, Southern Ocean
25 March Stewart Hall (ENV) Wind Forcing of Denmark Strait Overflow Salinity Anomalies
1 April Yi Wang (Univ of Sussex) Lessons learned from high-resolution simulations of the Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment
8 April Roger Smith (Univ of Hamburg) Tropical cyclone formation and intensification
Autumn 2010 (Organiser: Karen Heywood)
1st October Andy Mahoney
(University of Alaska) 		Sea ice and its global and local importance
8th October Robin Tokmakian
(Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey) 		Examining and quantifying uncertainty in climate models
15th October
In LGMAC Seminar Room! 		Jorge Vazquez
(ENV) 		Climate variability, instrumental data and climate change in Mexico
22nd October Ben Webber
(ENV) 		Ocean dynamics and the Madden-Julian Oscillation
29th October Andrew Turner
(Meteorology, Reading) 		The Arabian Sea and the Indian summer monsoon: Model SST biases, their impact, and possible solutions
5th November Barney Love
(ENV) 		The diurnal cycle of precipitation over the Maritime Continent in high resolution atmospheric model
12th November Joel Hirschi
(NOC Southampton) 		Chaotic and predictable variability of the meridional overturning circulation on subannual to interannual timescales
19th November Adrian Matthews
(ENV) 		Multi-scale interaction in the South Pacific Convergence Zone
26th November Helen Wells
(Met Office) 		Representation of gravity wave effects in atmospheric models
THURSDAY 2nd November at 1 pm Sunke Schmidtko
(NOAA-PMEL, Seattle) 		Subantarctic Mode Water (SAMW) and Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW): Observations of annual mode water anomalies and long term (40-85yr) intermediate water trends
3rd December Tim Woollings
(Meteorology, Reading) 		Dynamical influences on European climate: An uncertain future
MONDAY 6th December at 4 pm Nicholas Beaird
(University of Washington, Seattle) 		The Eastern Nordic Seas Overflows: Recent Seaglider Observations
10th December Paul Linden
(DAMTP, Cambridge) 		The role of internal waves in the dynamics of gravity currents and intrusions
17th December Matt Thomas
(ENV) 		Sverdrup balance and potential future changes in the meridional overturning circulation
Summer 2010 (Organiser: Cedric Chavanne)
7th May Corinne Le Quere
(UEA) 		Recent trends in the ocean CO2 sink
14th May Katy Sheen
(University of Cambridge) 		Acoustic imaging of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
21st May Abigail Phillips
(CEFAS) 		Working at Cefas for a year in industry: Research and project work
28th May
In LGMAC Seminar Room! 		Bob Plant
(Reading) 		Boundary layer controls on extratropical cyclone development
4th June Hayder Salman
(UEA) 		Towards Nonlinear Filtering in Lagrangian Data Assimilation: The Hybrid/ Grid Particle Filter
11th June Rosalind Cornforth
(Reading) 		Making Waves in Africa:
Easterly Wave Fundamentals, Forecasts and Applications
18th June
In LGMAC Seminar Room! 		CANCELLED
25th June
In LGMAC Seminar Room! 		Peter Baines
(University of Melbourne) 		Patterns of decadal climate variability and their impact on global rainfall
2nd July
In LGMAC Seminar Room! 		Chris Taylor
(Centre for Ecology & Hydrology) 		Understanding land surface on rainfall
9th July
Joint GLC/MOC seminar at 11am in LGMAC Seminar Room 		Azizan Abu Samah
(Univ of Malaya, Malaysia) 		Observations and Simulations of the Borneo Vortex
(and a briefing on a new marine-atmospheric observatory on the Malaysian east coast)
9th July
1pm, ZICER 		Shane Elipot
(National Oceanographic Centre, Liverpool) 		Meridional Transport estimates from the Rapid WAVE array
Wed 14th July
1pm, ZICER 		Paul Dodd
(Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromso) 		The Freshwater Composition of the East Greenland Current Derived From d18O and N:P Ratio Measurements
Wed 28th July
In LGMAC Seminar Room, 1pm 		Simon Josey
(National Oceanographic Centre, Southampton) 		Impacts of Changing Surface Fluxes on the North Atlantic
Spring 2010 (Organiser: Adrian Matthews)
15 Jan Zhaomin Wang
(British Antarctic Survey) 		Response of ACC transport to climate change in coupled climate models
22 Jan Chris Holloway
(University of Reading) 		The interaction between moisture and convection in the tropics
29 Jan Des Barton
(Instituto Investigationes Marines, Vigo, Spain) 		Canaries upwelling - more or less? Note different location: LGMAC seminar room
5 Feb Louise Sime
(British Antarctic Survey) 		Kinks in the Antarctic ice-core thermometer
12 Feb Andrew Dawson
(UEA) 		Rossby wave dynamics of the North Pacific extra-tropical response to El Nino: importance of the basic state in coupled GCMs
19 Feb Brian Hoskins
(Imperial College / University of Reading) 		Mid-latitude storm-tracks and blocking
26 Feb Emma Irvine
(University of Reading) 		Improving weather forecasts for Northern Europe using targeted observations: cases from the Greenland Flow Distortion Experiment
5 Mar Dave Sproson
(UEA) 		The oceanic impacts of Greenland's tip jets
12 Mar Pierre Dutrieux
(British Antarctic Survey) 		Tropical western Pacific currents and the origin of intraseasonal variability below the thermocline
19 Mar Dan Bernie
(Met Office) 		The impact of diurnal ocean-atmosphere coupling on tropical climate variability
Wed 31 Mar Ming Feng
(CSIRO, Perth, Australia) 		Decadal variability of the Pacific subtropical cell and its influence on the southeast Indian Ocean
23 Apr Cedric Chavanne
(UEA) 		Ocean surface observations of submesoscale processes: interactions between an anticyclonic vortex and a front
30 Apr Jenny Graham
(UEA) 		Climate responses to perturbations in Antarctic Intermediate Water
Autumn 2009 (Organiser: Agatha de Boer)
25 Sep Lesley Allison
(Reading) 		Spin-up and adjustment of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and the global pycnocline.
2 Oct Karen Heywood (with Chris Brown and Bastien Queste)
(UEA) 		What can ocean gliders do for you? - a discussion session
9 Oct Herbert Huppert
(Cambridge University) 		The grounding line problem: where ice meets the polar ocean
16 Oct Marion Bandet Chavanne
(Hawaii/UEA) 		Dynamics of wave-induced boundary layers over very rough boundaries: field observations over a stretch of coral reef
23 Oct Rob Scott
(NOCS) 		What phenomena of geostrophic turbulence exist in the real ocean?
30 Oct Phil Hosegood
(Plymouth) 		The enhancement of surface mixed layer restratification by submesoscale lateral density gradients
6 Nov Laure Zanna
(Oxford University) 		Non-normal perspectives on Atlantic ocean variability and predictability.
13 Nov Alberto Naveira Garabato
(Southampton Oceanography Centre) 		Theory and observations of eddy-induced mixing in the Southern Ocean.
Th 19 Nov Alexey Karpechko
(UEA) 		Southern Hemisphere circulation in an era of ozone recovery
20 Nov Emma Irvine
(Reading) 		Improving weather forecasts for Northern Europe using targeted observations: cases from the Greenland Flow Distortion Experiment.
27 Nov Daniel Grosvenor
(Manchester University) 		Modelling the weather over the Antarctic Peninsula - do mountain waves increase surface melting on the Larsen Ice Shelf?
11 Dec First Year PhD students talks
- Johanna Gloël: Triple oxygen isotopes and oxygen/argon ratio measurements to enhance coastal and open ocean production/respiration comparisons
- Bastien Queste: Understanding and predicting the development of low oxygen regions in the North Sea
- Mike Newland: Modelling a Century Long Record of Climatically Important Trace Gases from the NEEM Ice Core Drilling Project in Greenland.
- Chris Steele: Wind Power Meteorology in Complex Coastal Environments
- Nick Earl: Towards a better understanding of extra-tropical windstorms for the insurance industry
- Andy Elvidge: Mesoscale Modelling of Topographic Flow over the Antarctic Peninusla
- Phil Underwood: drawing the line between abstraction and extraneousness: the computational barriers of physical ocean ecosystem modelling
Spring 2009 (Organiser: Karen Heywood)
8 May Jim Ledwell
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 		A Tracer Experiment on the East Pacific Rise: Mixing, Plume Entrainment, and Connectivity Between Vent Sites
15 May First Year PhD students (i) Gillian Damerell (ii) Matt Thomas (iii) Ben Harden (iv) Suriyani Awang (i) Temporal variability in Diapycnal mixing in Shag Rocks Passage (Southern Ocean) (ii) Investigating the role of linear vorticity balance in determining the MOC (iii) The air-sea interactions of East Greenland barrier winds (iv) Water quality modelling in lower and estuary of Selangor River, Malaysia
22 May Stephanie Waterman
NOC Southampton and Imperial College 		Eddy-Mean Flow Interactions in Western Boundary Current Jets: An Observationally-Driven Theoretical Study
29 May Kevin Oliver
Open University 		Ocean circulation and atmospheric CO2 at the last glacial maximum
5 June Stephen Belcher
School of Maths, Meteorology and Physics, University of Reading 		Surface wave processes in air-sea interaction
12 June Cedric Chavanne
UEA 		Observations of the Impact of Mesoscale Currents on Internal Tide Propagation
26 June Barbara Maher
Lancaster University 		Asynchronous monsoon behaviour in India and E Asia
3 July Stefan Emeis
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-IFU), Germany 		Different methods to derive the mixing-layer height by remote sensing (including RASS)
3 July Colin Goldblatt
NASA Ames Research Center, California, USA 		A double bill of radiative transfer with a bit of geochemistry thrown in for fun: An evaluation of the longwave radiative transfer code used in the Met Office Unified Model followed by solving the Faint Young Sun Paradox with nitrogen
16 July Robert Macdonald
UEA 		Are bed-attached hemispheres just downside-up ships?
Spring 2009 (Organiser: Ian Renfrew)
23 Jan Ian Renfrew
UEA 		Atmospheric forcing of the subpolar seas
30 Jan Daniel Kirshbaum
(Univ. of Reading) 		Orographic precipitation in the tropics: Large-eddy simulations and theory
6 Feb Iain MacDonald
UEA 		What the floc, flocculation of fine sediment in a benthic boundary layer, Modelling and field observations
13 Feb Helen Dacre
Univ. of Reading 		Evaluating pollution transport in weather prediction models
20 Feb Adrian Matthews
UEA 		Primary and successive events in the Madden-Julian Oscillation
27 Feb Jen Catto
Univ. of Reading 		The Representation of Extratropical Cyclones in HiGEM
6 Mar Tom Bracegirdle
BAS 		How will Antarctic climate change over the 21st century?
13 Mar Stuart Webster
Met Office 		High Resolution Modelling of Heavy Rainfall over Steep Orography using the Met Office Unified Model
20 Mar Mark Brandon
Open University 		Seasonal and interannual variations in water properties at South Georgia using mooring data
27 Mar Chris Merchant
Univ. of Edinburgh 		Sea Surface Temperature Climatology from Space
Autumn 2008 (Organiser: Karen Heywood)
29th August 2008 Andrew Collier
(Hermanus Magnetic Observatory, South Africa) 		Lightning Activity over the Agulhas Current
3rd September 2008 Chris Reason
(University of Cape Town, South Africa) 		Modelling the tropical oceans around Africa and their impacts on southern African weather and climate
23rd September Rod Wilson
(School of Biosciences, University of Exeter) 		A fishy tale of marine carbonates, physiology, ocean chemistry and population modelling
26th September 2008 (i) Nina Bednarsek (ii) Tanja Pangerc (iii) Christos Mitsis (BAS/UEA FAASIS) (i) Life cycle of the Thecosomatous pteropod Limacina helicina ant. in the Scotia Sea (ii) Vocalizations of Antarctic baleen whales recorded along the North Scotia Ridge, Southern Ocean (iii) Tracers, circulation and mixing in the Southern Ocean
3rd October 2008 in LGMAC Seminar room Angelika Renner (BAS/UEA FAASIS) Ocean fronts and currents near the Antarctic Peninsula
10th October 2008 in LGMAC Seminar Room Rodrigo Kerr
(visiting UEA, based at the Federal University of Rio Grande, Brazil) 		Analysis of the Antarctic Peninsula Margins from observed data and model output
17th October 2008 Bob Beare
(Exteter University) 		Modelling the diurnal cycle of the atmospheric boundary layer
24th October 2008 Finlo Cottier
(SAMS) 		Arctic Shelf Systems - a physicist on thin ice!
31st October 2008 Hanneke Luijting
(UEA/BAS FAASIS) 		Case studies of katabatic wind in Coats Land, Antarctica
7th November 2008 David Marshall
(University of Oxford) 		Spin-up, adjustment and equilibrium state of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
14th November 2008 G. Nina Petersen
(UEA) 		Strong winds by the coast of Greenland: Observations and simulations
21st November 2008 Emma Fiedler
(UEA) 		Heat Fluxes over the Ronne Polynya, Antarctica
28th November 2008 Hazel Thornton
(Met Office) 		Investigating the impacts of climate change on UK industry and government
5th December 2008 Mags Wallace
(University of St Andrews, formerly BAS) 		Characterisation of zooplankton vertical migration in two high Arctic fjords using moored ADCPs
12th December 2008 New PhD students (i) Ben Webber (ii) Jessica Vial (iii) Stewart Hall (i) The Dynamical Ocean Response to the Madden-Julian Oscillation Greenland barrier winds (ii) Extreme weather impacts of Atmospheric Blocking in the 21st century (iii) Variability of the Denmark Straits Overflow: Background, Significance and Project Aims
Summer 2008 (Organiser: Dave Stevens)
9 May 2008 Yeung-Djern Lenn
(University of Wales, Bangor) 		Ekman currents in the Southern Ocean
16 May 2008 Alexey Fedorov
(Yale University) 		The response of the tropical ocean to global warming: a paleo perspective
23 May 2008 James Screen
(UEA) 		The role of eddies in the Southern Ocean temperature response to the Southern Annular Mode
28 May 2008
10 am in S1.20 		Armando Trasvina Castro
(CICESE, La Paz, Mexico) 		Upwelling on the west coast of Baja California. General description and the influence of coastal advection
30 May 2008 Howard Roscoe
(British Antarctic Survey) 		The observed trend in the Southern Annular Mode: is it the ozone hole or is it greenhouse gases?
6 June 2008 Graham Walkden
(UEA) 		Fimbul Freshwater Fluxes
9 June 2008
4pm in S1.20 		Ric Williams
(Liverpool) 		The effect of ocean dynamics and orography on atmospheric storm tracks
13 June 2008 Malcolm Roberts
(Hadley Centre, Met Office) 		ENSO and other processes in a matrix of coupled climate models at different resolutions
20 June 2008 Till Kuhlbrodt
(University of Reading) 		Sandström's experiments with buoyancy-driven overturning - what can we learn from them a hundred years on?
27 June 2008 Sarah Keeley
(University of Reading) 		Impact of horizontal resolution on simulated winter North Atlantic variability
4 July 2008 Abigail Nye
(UEA) 		Scattering of internal gravity waves
Spring 2008 (Organiser: Adrian Matthews)
18 Jan 2008 (Week 1) Sally Lavender
(ENV, UEA) 		Variability of the West African monsoon
25 Jan 2008 (Week 2) Ed Hawkins
(Department of Meteorology, University of Reading) 		Variability and predictability of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation
1 Feb 2008 (Week 3) Ian Brooks
(School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds) 		Eddy correlation measurements of sea spray aerosol fluxes
8 Feb 2008 (Week 4) Stephen Outten
(ENV, UEA) 		Reverse tip jets around Greenland
15 Feb 2008 (Week 5) Gabriele Hegerl
(University of Edinburgh) 		Towards detecting and attributing impact relevant climate change
22 Feb 2008 (Week 6) LGMAC seminar room Barney Love
(ENV, UEA) 		Statistical forecasting of the Madden-Julian Oscillation
29 Feb 2008 (Week 7) John Marsham
(School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds) 		Mesoscale circulations in weather and climate: observed cases from the UK and the Sahara
7 Mar 2008 (Week 8) Chris Folland
(Met Office) 		Modes of climate variability in the atmosphere and the oceans
14 Mar 2008 (Week 9) Extra seminar, 11 am Robbie Toggweiler (NOAA) What the ice ages are trying to tell us about climate sensitivity
14 Mar 2008 (Week 9) Hugh Venables (British Antarctic Survey) Physical controls on the location and initiation of a regular phytoplankton bloom north of the Crozet Plateau
Thursday 3 Apr 2008 Laurence Mysak (McGill University, Canada) Glacial inceptions: Past and future
10 Apr 2008 (postponed) John Marshall (MIT, USA) GFD experiments in climate and paleoclimate: speculations on the climate of an aquaplanet
16 Apr 2008 (Week 10) Extra seminar, 11 am Michel Arhan
(IFREMER, Brest, France) 		A quasi-meridional hydrographic section southwest of South Africa: Eddies and transports
18 Apr 2008 (Week 10) David Grimes
(Department of Meteorology, University of Reading) 		The rain on the plain falls uncertainly on the grain
25 Apr 2008 (Week 11) Adam Scaife
(Met Office) 		European winter climate variability
Autumn 2007 (Organisers: Nina Petersen, Andy Thompson)
10 September Eric Savory (University of Western Ontario, London, Canada) Large-scale physical modelling of convective downdraft outflows and their effects on the built environment
27 September Vanessa O'Brien (Former UEA Met&Ocean undergraduate) A Day in the Life of a Meteorologist on an Antarctic Base
28 September Karen Heywood (UEA) The ADELIE field campaign
5 October Tim Graham (UEA) The impact of Southern Ocean Diapycnal Mixing in a Global Ocean Atmosphere General Circulation Model
12 October Emily Shuckburgh (BAS) Eddy diffusivities in the Southern Ocean
19 October David Sexton (Met Office Hadley Centre) Development of probabilistic climate predictions for UKCIP08
26 October Katherine Eames (UEA) Modelling Isotopes in U.K. Precipitation
2 November Andrew Ross (Univ. Leeds) The dynamics of airflow over forested hills
9 November John King (BAS) Attribution of recent climate change in the Antarctic Peninsula
16 November Dave Stevens (UEA) High resolution coupled ocean-atmosphere modelling
20 November Emmanuelle Sultan (LOCEAN, University of Paris) Adélie coastal oceanography : from exploration to observatory
23 November John Methven (Univ. Reading) Does the atmosphere have a background state?
30 November Phil Anderson (BAS) What do you mean, "Stable Boundary Layer Depth"?
4 December Mark Inall (SAMS, Oban) Fjordic Mixing Processes: A Box of Fluid Dynamical Delights
Summer 2007 (Organiser: Agatha de Boer)
27-Apr-07 Loic Jullion UEA Mixing processes in the Brazil-Malvinas Confluence
04-May-07 Remi Tailleux Reading Atlantic meridional overturning circulation: heat engine or heat transport engine?
11-May-07 Sam Duby Brunel Uni. Carbon Sequestration and Coastal Defence -A Combined Approach
18-May-07 Deb Shoosmith BAS CTD Madness at King George
22-May-07 Guy Williams Antarctic CRC (Aus) Australian Antarctic Oceanography
23-May-07 Flavien Gouillon COAPS (USA) Modelling tides in the gulf of Mexico
25-May-07 Patama Singhruck UEA Ocean response to the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Observation from Argo floats
01-Jun-07 Gareth Marshall BAS The Southern Annular Mode and Antarctic climate variability
05-Jun-07 Mal Green NIWA (NZ) Wave-Driven Sediment Dynamics in Estuaries: An Overview from a Decade of Work (on and off) in New Zealand
08-Jun-07 Martin Widmann U. of Birmingham Holocene and Eemian climate simulations with General Circulation Models
12-Jun-07 Peter Baines U. of Melbourne, (Aus) The structure of the Antarctic Slope Front
15-Jun-07 Andrew Challinor Leeds Crop yield under climate change: a growing concern
26-Jun-07 (1pm, Sci 3.05) Hazel Grant UEA Constraints of PO4* on the change in Antarctic Bottom Water production over the last 8 centuries
29-Jun-07 Giovanni Coco NIWA (NZ) Sorted bedforms on the innter shelf as self-organised patterns
3-Aug-07 (4 pm, Lgmac) Armando Trasvina Unidad La Paz, (Mexico) Coastal oceanography in two (very) different regions: Baja California and the Antarctic Peninsula
Spring 2007 (Organiser: Agatha de Boer)
19-Jan-07 Todd Arbetter BAS Modelling and Analysis of Polar Polynyas: Case Studies in the Arctic and Antarctic
26-Jan-07 Mike Meredith BAS Some further thoughts on the Southern Ocean response to the Southern Anular Mode
02-Feb-07 Kate Willet UEA Humidity and Recent Climate Change: HadCRUH - a New Global Surface Humidity Dataset.
09-Feb-07 Alan Gadian Leeds An electrifying experience: how close interactions can stimulate and charge you, if you are a cloud ice particle in the company of a little liquid
16-Feb-07 Robert Marsh SOC Modelling Glacial-Interglacial and Next-Millennial Changes of Ocean and Climate
23-Feb-07 Tony Dolphin UEA The Legend of Nessie, South Lowestoft Beach and a Big Pile of Sand ~1 km Offshore: Behaviour of the sand pile and implications for shorelines and Nessies
05-Mar-07 Tim Woollings Reading A new interpretation of the North Atlantic Oscillation
09-Mar-07 Clare Coughlan UEA Modelling the wave climate inshore of a sandbank and implications for the adjacent shoreline
16-Mar-07 Nathan Gillett UEA Attribution of observed humidity changes to human influence
Autumn 2006 (Organiser: Ian Renfrew)
29 Sep Conny Shwierz (Univ. Leeds) Assessing high-impact weather using event-based climatologies: heavy precipitation and blocking
6 Oct Manoj Joshi (Met Office) The land-sea warming contrast in equilibrium simulations of climate change
13 Oct Jeff Chagnon (Univ. Reading) Case study analysis of convectively-generated gravity waves
20 Oct Martin Price (UEA) Autosub Under Ice: melting of the Fimbul Ice Shelf, Antarctica
27 Oct Andrew Thompson (UEA) Eddy fluxes in baroclinic turbulence: vortices and beta-plane jets
3 Nov Sue Gray (Univ. Reading) Boundary layer ventilation of pollutants by weather systems
10 Nov Jeremy Grist (NOC, Southampton) The Impact on the Ocean of Extreme Greenland Sea Heat Loss in HadCM3
17 Nov Anjelika Renner (UEA) Sea ice
24 Nov Alexandra Weiss (British Antarctic Survey) Quality assessment experiment of water cycle parameters in a reginal model by radar-lidar synergy
1 Dec Ellie Highwood (Univ. Reading) Dusty days: measuring and modelling how aerosol impacts climate
8 Dec Arnaud Czaja (Imperial College) Mechanisms controlling the net air-sea heatflux in the Southern Ocean
15 Dec 1st year PhD Students (UEA)  
Summer 2006 (Organiser: Martin Price)
16th June Agatha de Boer (UEA) The North Atlantic, strong but subservient in the global overturning circulation?
2nd June Zhaomin Wang (BAS) Glacial abrupt climate changes and Dansgaard-Oeschger oscillations in a coupled climate model
26th May Alan Condron (Sheffield) Are climate models underforcing the ocean? North Atlantic deep water formation and polar mesocyclones.
19th May Helen Johnson (Reading) The time-dependent Atlantic meridional overturning circulation.
28th April Armando Trasviña (CICESE, Mexico) Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico: summer mesoscale circulation
20th April Tor Eldevik (NERSC, Norway) Is the Greenland Sea a major part of the Atlantic Conveyor?
Spring 2006 (Organiser: Nathan Gillet)
27th January Dave Stainforth (University of Oxford) Regional changes in climateprediction.net
10th February Paul Dodd (ENV) The Freshwater Budget of the East Greenland Current
17th February Andrew Coward (National Oceanography Centre) High resolution ocean modelling: The legacy of OCCAM and founding NEMO
24th February Jade Johnstone (ENV) Rain, rain go away, we don't want a pyroclastic flow today!
10th March Oliver Charlesworth (ENV) Seasonal Variation of the Extratropical Response to the MJO: Observations and Modelling
17th March Herbert Huppert (University of Cambridge) Modelling carbon dioxide sequestration
21st March Yvonne Searl (Hadley Centre) Slowing of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation: a HadCM3 perspective
Autumn 2005 (Organiser: Karen Heywood)
17th August Chris Reason (Oceanography, University of Cape Town, South Africa) Variability in the Benguela Current region
18th August Tom Bracegirdle (Meteorology, University of Reading) Polar Lows
30th September Neil Holbrook (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) On ENSO and the IPO: observations and recent model simulations
14th October Tricia O'Mahony (ENV PhD student) Influence of Atlantic sea surface temperatures on the atmospheric circulation
21st October Glen Richardson (ENV PhD student) Climate response to a freshwater pulse in the Southern O cean
28th October Dorothee Bakker (ENV) Southern Ocean blooms promote uptake of atmospheric CO2
4th November Tony Dolphin (ENV) Sand, Surf and Video-tape: A study of Beach LINKs to Sandb anks (BLINKS) with contextual comments on sandbank movement at Newcombe Sands, L owestoft
16th November Gudrun Nina Petersen (Meteorology, University of Reading) The impact of Greenland's orography on the atmospheric flow in the Northern Hemisphere
17th November Erik Kolstad (Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen) Arctic hurricanes
18th November Peter Thorne (Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Liverpool) An overview of the application of acoustics to the measurement of nearbed sediment processes
25th November Gregory Lane-Serff (School of Mechanical, Aerosp ace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester) Mixed layer deepening during an Antarctic gale
2nd December Andrew Watson (ENV) Sea ice and the Southern Ocean overturning and the r elation to glacial - interglacial atmospheric CO2 change
9th December Sian Grigg (Department of Physical Geography, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) The Water Mass Model (WaMM): A new box model for Earth System Science
12th December George Kiladis (NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory, Boulder, USA) Self Similarity in Organized Tropical Convection
16th December Sally Lavender Global and regional modelling of subseasonal variability of the African Monsoon
16th December James Screen The coupled ocean-atmosphere response to Antarctic ozone depletion
16th December Simon Busby Patterns and causes of drought in the central and western United States over the last 1000 years
16th December Hanneke Luijting Katabatic flow/marine atmospheric boundary layer interactions around Antarctica
16th December Emma Fiedler Air-sea-ice interactions within coastal polynyas in the southern Weddell Sea
16th December Stephen Outten High impact weather events around Greenland
16th December Nicole Nichols Eddies, fronts and mixing in Shag Rocks Passage, Antarctica
16th December Julia Chatterton Simulating UK and European Air Quality Using Numerical Weather Prediction and Eulerian Grid Models
16th December Christos Mitsis Tracers, circulation and mixing in the Southern Ocean
16th December Naomi Vaughan Evaluating Climate Macro-Engineering Options: Carbon Capture & Storage
16th December Roger Phillips Shore Parallel Breakwaters At Sea Palling, Norfolk
16th December Kiaran Harper Surface energy balance and rapid deglaciation on James Ross Island
16th December Roisin Moriarty The Role of Macrozooplankton in the Global Carbon Cycle
16th December Frances Hopkins Trace gas production by marine phytoplankton in a doubled CO2 world
Spring and Summer 2005 (Organiser: Dave Stevens)
12th Jan (Week 1) Chris Hughes (POL) Vorticity and Rossby waves in the Southern Ocean
21st Jan (Week 2) Mick Follows (MIT) Climate, Atmospheric CO2 and Coupled Oceanic Nutrient Cycles
28th Jan (Week 3) Inga Smith (ENV) ShagEx and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
4th Feb (Week 4) Discussion What is the Climate Sensitivity?
11th Feb (Week 5) Warwick Norton (Reading) Nonlinear Atlantic SST forcing of European winter climate
18th Feb (Week 6) Sally Thorpe (BAS) Circumpolar transport of Antarctic krill: a modelling approach
25th Feb (Week 7) Elaine McDonagh (SOC) Circulation of the Indian Ocean at 32S
4th Mar (Week 8) Chris Wilson (Liverpool) Ocean storm tracks - when are eddy fluxes downgradient
11th Mar (Week 9) Peter Baines (Bristol) Abrupt Global Climate Change in the late 1960s
18th Mar (Week 10) Richard Wood (Hadley Centre) Will we ever be able to predict the future of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation?
22nd Apr (Week 11) Georgy Shapiro (Plymouth) Dense water cascades off the continental shelves: Physical mechanisms and climate implications
6th May David Marshall (Reading) Towards a next-generation ocean model with dynamically-adaptive meshing
13th May Andreas Oschlies (NOC) Climate sensitivity of the biological pump: Mixing matters!
20th May Nathan Gillett (UEA) Global sea level pressure trends and their causes
27th May Anne Pardaens (Hadley Centre) Ocean freshwater budgets and their relationship to the thermohaline circulation in Hadley Centre coupled models
10th June James Harle (NOC) Interannual to seasonal variability of the circulation in the Subpolar North Atlantic
17th June John Donners
Earth Simulator - Japan 		Impact of cooling on the water mass exchange of Agulhas rings in a high-res ocean model
Autumn 2004 (Organiser: Adrian Matthews)
24 Sep (Week 1) Greg Leonard (Department of Physics, University of Otago, NZ) Observations of oceanographic conditions and platelet ice formation during the austral winter of 2003 in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
29 Sep (Wednesday, Week 2) Marc Lucas (Southamption Oceanography Centre) From decadal to orbital, the response of the North Atlantic to variable buoyancy forcing, an idealised study
1 Oct
(Week 2) 		Ian Renfrew (ENV, UEA) Katabatic flows in Coats Land, Antarctica
8 Oct
(Week 3) 		Piers Forster (Dept. of Meteorology, University of Reading) Diagnosing the climate sensitivity from ERBE data
15 Oct
(Week 4) 		Mat Collins (Hadley Centre) New predictions of climate change from the Hadley Centre
22 Oct
(Week 5) 		Jon Petch (Met Office) Cloud resolving modelling and the work of GCSS WG4
29 Oct
(Week 6) 		Doug Parker (School of the Environment, University of Leeds) What makes the West African Monsoon tick?
5 Nov (Week 7) Adrian Matthews (ENV/MTH, UEA) Variability of Antarctic circumpolar transport and the Southern Annular Mode associated with the Madden--Julian Oscillation
12 Nov (Week 8) Sarah Gille (Scripps Institute of Oceanography) What Lagrangian floats tell us about the Southern Ocean
19 Nov (Week 9) Keith Makinson (British Antarctic Survey) Seasonal stratification and critical latitude: their effect on tidal currents and seasonal inflow along Ronne Ice Front, Antarctica
26 Nov
(Week 10) 		Jim Haywood (Met Office) The direct radiative forcing of climate by aerosols: Measurements and modelling using in-situ and remotely sensed data.
3 Dec
(Week 11) 		Martin Price (ENV, UEA) Interannual variability in Drake Passage 2: modelling a local mode
10 Dec
(Week 12) 		First Year PhD students  
Summer 2004 (Organiser: Alberto Naveira Garabato)
7 May David Smeed (SOC) Internal tides and mixing in the Indian Ocean
14 May Andrew Boswell (ITCS, UEA) The new Beowulf cluster at UEA
17 May Helene Banks (Hadley Centre) Evaluating ocean heat and freshwater transports in HadCM3
28 May Adam Leadbetter (ENV,UEA) Sand and mud transport in the North Sea - Observations and modelling
4 June Jamie Kettle (ENV,UEA) The physical oceanography of the European freshwater eel
11 June William Connolly (BAS) Antarctic sea ice: improving the model HadCM3 and improving the observations
18 June Mike Meredith (POL) Circumpolar transport variability in the Southern Ocean
24 June Manfredi Manizza (UEA) Bio-optical impact of phytoplankton on global ocean physics and carbon cycle
2 July Simon Holgate (POL) Evidence for enhanced sea level rise in the 1990s
12 July Emily Shuckburgh (DAMTP) Quantification of eddy diffusivities in the Southern Ocean
16 July Steve Dye (CEFAS) Shelf Sea circulation and modelling the impact of climate change
Spring 2004 (Organiser: Martin Wadley)
6 Feb John Donners (RNMI) Lagrangian view of South Atlantic Ocean exchange in OCCAM compared with inverse models
13 Feb John Green (ENV) Mixing in shear, no need to invent turbulence
20 Feb Alberto Naveira Garabato Turbulent mixing in the Southern Ocean
27 Feb Mei-Man Lee (SOC) Eddy induced mass transport in the Southern Ocean
19 Mar Adrian Matthews (ENV/MTH) Global intraseasonal variability, the Madden Julian oscillation
26 Mar Kingsley Itiveh (UEA/Sheffield)  
Autumn 2003 (Organiser: Karen Heywood)
26 Sep Martin Wadley (UEA) Not So Great Salinity Anomalies?
10 Oct Hilary Spencer (Meteorology, Reading) El Nino teleconnections and the role of the Indian Ocean
17 Oct Glen Richardson (ENV) A Day in the Life of a Met Office Scientist (+ some cloud physics!)
24 Oct Louise Sime (ENV) Measuring, representing and modelling gravelly rivers
31 Oct Inga Smith (ENV) Antarctic platelet ice formation in McMurdo Sound
7 Nov Bob Dickson (CEFAS, Lowestoft) Understanding the role of the high latitude ocean in global change
14 Nov Jochem Marotzke (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg) The Ocean Thermohaline Circulation: Theory and Observations
21 Nov Simon Tett (Met Office) Observing Climate Change
27 Nov John Marshall (MIT) Observations and Models of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
28 Nov Nathan Bindoff (University of Tasmania) Climate differences in the Southern Ocean, and formation of bottom water in Adelie Land Antarctica
5 Dec Ron Kahana (ENV) Global ocean circulation modes derived from a multiple box model
12 Dec first year PhD students  
Summer 2003 (Organiser: Grant Bigg)
16 May Cris Batstone (MTH) Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions within the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Spring 2003 (Organiser: Grant Bigg)
17 Jan First Year Postgraduate Student Talks  
7 Feb Steve Harangozo (BAS) ENSO teleconnections in the climate of the Antarctic Peninsula
28 Feb Len Shaffrey (Reading) The variability of the atmospheric and Atlantic Ocean energy transport in HadCM3
7 Mar Piers Larcombe (CEFAS, Lowestoft) The Reef is Doing Just Fine Thank You" - An Alternative View of Environmental Processes and Management of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
14 Mar Martin Siegert (Bristol) An ocean under the ice: Lake Vostok, Antarctica
21 Mar Roy Livermore (BAS) Drake passage: A major cross-roads in the Earth System
28 Mar Elaine McDonagh (SOC) Decadal variability in the southern Indian Ocean
3 Apr Ricardo Matano (OSU) Seasonal variability of the southwest Indian Ocean
4 Apr John Bacon (ENV) The effect of the offshore breakwaters on tidal currents and sediment transport at Sea Palling
Autumn 2002 (Organiser: Grant Bigg)
27 Sep John Green (ENV) Some views on the nature of baroclinic instability
4 Oct Kevin Oliver (ENV) A three box thermohaline circulation model with isopycnal deep transport
11 Oct Peter Webley (Reading) Atmospheric water vapour correction to InSAR surface motion measurements on mountains
18 Oct Kate Stansfield (SOC) Indirect estimate of mixing in a coastal strait
25 Oct Discussion Meeting The use of the Hadley Centre's Unified Model at UEA
1 Nov Steve Woolnough (Reading) Diurnal and intraseasonal SST variability in the west Pacific warm pool
8 Nov Tom Rippeth (Bangor) The hunt for dark mixing: the measurement of turbulence in the ocean
15 Nov Alan Thorpe (Reading Predicting dynamical sensitivity to improve the skill of weather forecasts
29 Nov Laura Goldson (ENV) Vertical mixing in the Southern Ocean - tracer-derived diffusivity rates
6 Dec Julie Collins (ENV) Barotropic and baroclinic tides in Drake Passage
Summer 2002 (Organiser: Grant Bigg)
17 May Sarah Watkins (ENV/Lancaster) Present day and North Atlantic circulation: using magnetic measurements to validate an iceberg trajectory model
31 May Doug Cresswell (UCL) Modelling sea ice in the Arctic
14 Jun Alberto Naveira Garabato (ENV) The Scotia Sea cauldron: the ACC in a high mixing environment
Spring 2002 (Organiser: Grant Bigg)
11 Jan Richard Geider (Essex) What have we learned from 50 years of plankton modelling in the sea?
18 Jan Karen Heywood (ENV) High mixing rates in the abyssal Southern Ocean
25 Jan Chris Vincent (ENV) Dounreay Particles
8 Feb Discussion session The thermohaline circulation: Pushed or pulled?
15 Feb Gerd Maselink (Loughborough) Are ridges on macrotidal ridge-and-runnel beaches swash bars?
22 Feb Tim Osborn (CRU) What do climate models and observations tell us about the North Atlantic Oscillation?
1 Mar Piers Forster (Reading) Climate change from increases in stratospheric water vapour?
8 Mar Mark Brandon (OU) Autosub goes south: oceanographic and acoustic measurements under the Weddell Sea pack-ice:
15 Mar Eelco Rohling (SOC) Mediterranean hydrography during sapropel formation: qualitative and quantitative reconstructions of a marginal seas response to climate change on millennial to centennial time scales
19 Apr Michael Vellinga (Hadley Centre) Towards understanding the dynamics of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation in HadCM3
Autumn 2001 (Organiser: Alberto Naveira Garabato)
21 Sep John Shepherd (Southampton Oceanography Centre) Overcoming the CFL time-step limitation : a stable iterative implicit numerical scheme for slowly evolving advection-diffusion systems
5 Oct Jeremy Wilkinson (Scott Polar Research Institute) Sea ice, convection and the Greenland Sea
12 Oct Mat Collins (University of Reading / Hadley Centre)  
19 Oct John Green (ENV) Molecular diffusion and advection of radon and momentum through the surface layer of the ocean
2 Nov Brad Murphy (University of Reading) Using climate models for mass balance studies of the Greenland Ice Sheet
9 Nov Ian Renfrew (British Antarctic Survey) Coastal polynyas in the southern Weddell Sea: Air-sea interaction and ice production
16 Nov Pete Inness (University of Reading) Tropical intraseasonal variability in coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models
23 Nov Robin Robertson (Alfred Wegener Institut, Bremerhaven) Internal tides in the Ross and Weddell seas
30 Nov Itsuki Handoh (ENV) Oceanic upwelling through the evolution of the Atlantic basin: A Newtonian approach
7 Dec Elaine McDonagh (ENV / Southampton Oceanography Centre) Oceanic fluxes in the South Atlantic
14 Dec first year Ph.D. students  
Summer 2001 (Organiser: Alberto Naveira Garabato)
27 Apr Sheldon Bacon (SOC) A freshwater jet on the East Greenland Shelf
4 May Helen Snaith (SOC) The Almeria-Oran front: merging satellite altimetry and in situ data
25 May Julian Dowdeswell (Bristol Glaciology Centre) Ice masses: past and present
8 Jun Harry Bryden (SOC) What determines the ACC transport and stratification?
15 Jun Carl Wunsch (MIT)  
22 Jun Chris Wilson (University of Liverpool) Parameterisation of mesoscale eddies: local or nonlocal?
6 Jul Kevin Oliver (ENV) Heat and freshwater fluxes through the Nordic Seas
16 Jul Steve Nicol (Australian Antarctic Division) Sea ice, circulation and the East Antarctic ecosystem
Spring 2001 (Organiser: Alberto Naveira Garabato)
15 Jan Neil Holbrook (Macquarie University) Climatological changes in the upper ocean thermal structure of the southwest Pacific Ocean
19 Jan Discussion session How to make scientific posters
26 Jan first year Ph.D. students  
2 Feb John Johnson (MTH) Modelling the ocean circulation off West Africa
16 Feb Bablu Sinha (SOC) Storms in the ocean: Observations of propagating eddies in the Subtropical North Atlantic from hydrography and remote sensing
26 Feb Simon Josey (SOC) A comparison of seasonal to interannual variability in the SOC air-sea flux dataset and HadAM3 atmospheric model
2 Mar Keith Nicholls (BAS) Studying oceanographic conditions beneath Antarctic Ice Shelves: How do we do it and what have we learned?
9 Mar Catherine Griffiths (Exeter) Ocean General Circulation Models: How well do they represent baroclinic instability
30 Mar Itsuki Handoh (ENV) Oceanic upwelling through the evolution of the tropical Atlantic basin
6 Apr Charlotte Obhrai (ENV) The study of sediment dynamics under waves using acoustic instruments
Autumn 2000 (Organiser: Alberto Naveira Garabato)
4 Oct Steven Spall (Hadley Centre) Modelling the impact of ocean DMS emissions on climate and the feedbacks to ocean biology
13 Oct ohn Green (ENV) Timescales in the ocean (ii), Turbulence and timescales longer than a pendulum-day
20 Oct Tim Druitt  
23 Oct Ric Williams (Liverpool) Dynamical tracers in the deep ocean
17 Nov Raymond Pollard (SOC) A new look at the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Southern Ocean zonation and biological implications, particularly natural iron fertilization
1 Dec Rupert Gladstone (ENV) Iceberg drift in the Antarctic Coastal Current from satellite monitoring of the Weddell Sea
8 Dec Alan Fox (Reading) Diagnosing ocean flows and transports: a data assimilation study
15 Dec first year PhD students  
Summer 2000 (Organiser: Alberto Naveira Garabato)
12 May Martin Wadley (ENV) Modelling present day and last glacial maximum d18O distributions
19 May Jean-Claude Gascard (LODC, Paris) Deep convective chimneys in the Greenland Sea
9 Jun Julia Slingo (Reading) Towards tropical climate prediction: An overview of research in the CGAM Tropical Group
16 Jun Chris Gordon (Hadley Centre) North Atlantic decadal variability in the Hadley Centre coupled model
30 Jun Mike McCulloch (Met Office) The high frequency variability of the mixed layer in the Met Office's Forecasting Ocean Assimilation Model (FOAM)
21 Jul Sally Thorpe (ENV) Variability of the flow around South Georgia
Spring 2000 (Organiser: Alberto Naveira Garabato)
7 Jan Jochem Marotzke (SOC) Atlantic meridional overturning: Dynamical aspects and the potential for monitoring
14 Jan ENV people Talks at AGU meeting
28 Jan Robert Thorpe (Hadley Centre) Sensitivity of the thermohaline circulation to climate change in the HADCM3 model
4 Feb Bob Dickson (CEFAS) Rapid climate change and the northern high-latitude ocean
18 Feb Emma Young (CEFAS) A new approach to modelling in the Irish Sea
25 Feb Helene Banks (Hadley Centre) Decadal changes in intermediate water masses: climate change or natural variability?
3 Mar Mike Fasham (SOC) Second generation marine ecosystem models: development and validation
7 Mar Adrian Jenkins (BAS) Modelling the buoyancy-driven circulation on the southern Weddell Sea continental shelf
10 Mar John Allen (SOC) Mesoscale vertical motion: esoteric or relevant?
17 Mar David Marshall (Reading) Geostrophic eddies, abyssal recirculations and zonal jets
24 Mar Alan Kemp (SOC) The Macavity of the Mediterranean and the Pacific pump: deep-sea palaeo-sediment traps and the role of diatoms in biogeochemical cycling
31 Mar Elaine McDonagh (ENV) On the circulation of bottom waters in the northern Argentine Basin and Vema Channel
7 Apr Alberto Naveira Garabato (ENV) The deep waters of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in the Scotia Sea: Results from the ALBATROSS expedition
Autumn 1999 (Organiser: Alberto Naveira Garabato)
12 Nov Nick McCave (Cambridge) Changes in the NE Atlantic deep circulation on millenial to Milankovitch timescales
19 Nov Alison McLaren (Plymouth) Variability in export production over the North Atlantic
26 Nov Mark Brandon (BAS) The annual cycle of oceanographic conditions, Marguerite Bay, Antarctica
30 Nov Michel Arhan (IFREMER, Brest) Volume budget at the western boundary of the South and Equatorial Atlantic
3 Dec Mike Leeder (ENV) Project Alkyonides Cruise '96: insights into tectonics, sedimentation and climate change in a northern Mediterranean setting
8 Dec Volker Strass (Alfred Wegener Institut, Bremerhaven) Cross-front circulation, primary production and sedimentation at the Antarctic Polar Front
10 Dec David Webb (SOC) Evidence for shallow zonal jets in the Coral Sea region of the South Pacific
Autumn 1998 (Organiser: Martin Wadley)
16 Oct Stephen Dye (ENV) Uncovering decadal variability in the Faeroe-Shetland channel: Is there a link with the NAO?
30 Oct Matthew Watts (ENV) Modelling DMS production in Lagrangian experiments in the North Atlantic
6 Nov Katie Grose (ENV) Variability of polar front position in Drake Passage from ATSR data
20 Nov Discussion Wavelet analysis
27 Nov Discussion Scotia Sea and the ALBATROSS project
11 Dec New PhD student talks  
18 Dec Mike Sparrow (Madrid) Lagrangian studies in the Mediterranean Outflow and Azores Current