Tim Boyd

Senior Lecturer

Telephone: +44 (0)1631 559411
E-mail: tim.boyd@sams.ac.uk



Scientific Interests

• Internal tides and waves: their generation, variability, and relationship to turbulent mixing in the ocean
• Polar oceanography: esp. the physical processes that result in variability in the heat and salt content of the upper layers of the Arctic Ocean
• Adapting and using novel technologies such as profiling drifters, autonomous underwater vehicles, and moored instrumentation to the study of these processes


Current / Recent Projects

• SCICEX
• COAST
• HOME
• AUV observations of mixing in the coastal ocean off Oregon
• OrCOOS

Selected Publications

• Boyd, T. J., D. S. Luther, R. A. Knox, and M. C. Hendershott, High frequency internal waves in the strongly sheared currents of the equatorial Pacific: Observations and a simple spectral model, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 18089-18107, 1993.
• Boyd, T.J. and E.A. D'Asaro, Cooling of the West Spitzbergen Current, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 22,597-22,618, 1994.
• Steele, M, and T. Boyd, Retreat of the Cold Halocline Layer in the Arctic Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 10,419-10,435, 1998.
• Smith, J. N., K. M. Ellis, and T. Boyd, Circulation Features in the Western Arctic Ocean Revealed by Tracers from European Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plants, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 29,663-29,677, 1999.
• Samelson, R., P. Barbour, J. Barth, S. Bielli, T. Boyd, D. Chelton, P. Kosro, M. Levine, E. Skyllingstad, and J. Wilczak, Wind stress forcing of the Oregon coastal ocean during the 1999 upwelling season, J. Geophys. Res., 107, C5, 10.1029/2001JC000900, 2002.
• Boyd, T. J., M. Steele, R. D. Muench, and J. T. Gunn, Partial Recovery of the Arctic Ocean Halocline, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, 14, 10.1029/2001GL014047, 2002.
• Rudnick, D. L., T. J. Boyd, R. E. Brainard, G. S. Carter, G. D. Egbert, M. C. Gregg, P. E. Holloway, J. M. Klymak, E. Kunze, C. M. Lee, M. D. Levine, D. S. Luther, J. P. Martin, M. A. Merrifield, J. N. Moum, J. D. Nash, R. Pinkel, L. Rainville, and T. S. Sanford, From tides to mixing along the Hawaiian Ridge, Science, 301, 355-357, 2003.
• Bane, J. M., M. D. Levine, R. M. Samelson, S. M. Haines, M. F. Meaux, N. Perlin, P. M. Kosro, and T. Boyd: Atmospheric forcing of the Oregon coastal ocean during the 2001 upwelling season, J. Geophys. Res., 110, C10S02, 10.1029/2004JC002653, 2005.
• Wijsekera, H. W., W. S. Pegau, and T. J. Boyd, The effect of surface waves on the irradiance distribution in the upper ocean, Optics Express, 13, 23, 9257-9264, 2005.
• Levine, M. D., and T. J. Boyd, Tidally-forced internal Waves and Overturns Observed on a Slope: Results from the HOME Survey Component, J. Phys. Ocean., 36, 1184-1201, 2006.

Educational and Career History

• Senior Lecturer in Polar Oceanography, The Scottish Association for Marine Science, 2007 -
• Research Associate, College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, 1995 -
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, COAS, OSU, 1993-1995
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, 1989-1993
• PhD, Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 1989
• BA, Physics, Carleton College, 1980