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New models and observations of the Southern Ocean, its role in global climate and the carbon cycle

16 - 17 July 2013 09:00 - 17:00

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Professor Andrew Watson FRS, Professor John Marshall FRS and Professor Mike Meredith.

Event details

The Southern Ocean is the most remote and the least understood of the world’s oceans, but plays a crucial role in past and present climate change. Currently it is the focus of intense physical and biogeochemical research. This meeting will bring together observationalists and modellers to exchange their latest insights, and will reach across the disciplines to bring together physical oceanographers, climatologists and carbon cycle scientists.

Biographies of the key contributors and recorded audio files of the presentations are available below.

Enquiries: Contact the events team

Organisers

  • Professor Andrew Watson FRS, University of Exeter, UK

    Andrew Watson is an Earth System scientist, with a special interest in the processes controlling atmospheric CO2 and oxygen concentrations, and their connection to the Earth’s climate. He has contributed to a wide variety of topics, including the atmospheres of other planets, physics and biogeochemistry of the oceans, paleoclimatology and astrobiology. His research group at the University of Exeter specialises in making and interpreting ocean and atmosphere measurements to high accuracy. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2003.

  • Professor John Marshall FRS, MIT, USA

    John Marshall is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography at MIT.  His research is directed at understanding the cause of the general circulation of the oceans, its interaction with the atmosphere and its role in the global climate and climate change.

  • Professor Mike Meredith, British Antarctic Survey, UK

    "Michael Meredith leads the Polar Oceans strategic research programme at the British Antarctic Survey. Dr. Meredith is Chair of the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS), and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI). Amongst other activities, he is a member of POGO (the Partnership for Observations of the Global Ocean), and an invited PI on the United States Palmer Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program. Following completion of his doctorate, he conducted physical oceanographic research at UEA, where he was awarded a NERC Fellowship. He has also previously worked at the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Liverpool, where he led a project concerned with understanding the time-dependency of high-latitude ocean circulation. Dr. Meredith has worked in both Arctic and Antarctic regions, with particular expertise in understanding the role of the ocean in climate change and variability using combinations of direct measurements, remote sensing and numerical modelling. He has conducted numerous field campaigns in the polar regions, and has authored or co-authored more than 80 journal papers on the the imoprtance of these environments."