Submitted

Burmeister, K., Fraser, N.J., Jones, S.C., Cunningham, S.A., Drysdale, L.A., Inall, M.E., Dotto, T.S. and Holliday, N.P., 2025. Eight years of continuous Rockall Trough transport observations using moorings and gliders. EGUsphere, 2025, pp.1-18.

Peer-reviewed publications

Berthou, S., Renshaw, R., Smyth, T., Tinker, J., Grist, J., Wihsgott, J.U., Jones, S.C., Inall, M., Nolan, G., Arnold, A., Blunn, L., Manuel, J., Gomez, B., Fraser-Leonhard, V., Hirschi, J., Lewis, H., Mahmood, S., Worsford, M., 2024. Exceptional atmospheric conditions in June 2023 generated a northwest European marine heatwave which contributed to breaking land temperature records. Nature Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1), p.287, doi: 10.1038/s43247-024-01413-8.

Johnson, C., Fraser, N., Cunningham, S.A., Burmeister, K., Jones, S.C., Drysdale, L., Abell, R., Brown, P., Dumont, E., Fox, A., N. Holliday, N.P., Inall, M.A. and Reed, S., 2024. Biogeochemical properties and transports in the North East Atlantic. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129(4), p.e2023JC020427, doi:10.1029/2023JC020427.

Fu, Y., Lozier, M.S., Carrilho Biló, T., Bower, A., Cunningham, S., Cyr, F., de Jong, F., deYoung, B., Drysdale, L., Fraser, N., Fried, N., Furey, H.H., Han, G., Handmann, P., Holliday, N.P., Holte, J., Inall, M., Johns, W.E., Jones, S.C., Karstensen, J., Li, F., Pacini, A., Pickart, R., Rayner, D., Straneo, F., Yashayaev, I., 2023. Seasonality of the Meridional Overturning Circulation in the subpolar North Atlantic. Nature communications Earth & Environment, 4(1), p.181, doi:10.1038/s43247-023-00848-9.

Jones, S.C., Fraser, N.J., Cunningham, S.A., Fox, A.D., Inall, M.E., 2023. Observation-based estimates of volume, heat and freshwater exchanges between the subpolar North Atlantic interior, its boundary currents and the atmosphere.  Ocean Science, 19(1), pp.169–192, doi:10.5194/os-19-169-2023.

Fraser, N.J., Cunningham, S.A., Drysdale, L.A., Inall, M.E., Johnson, C. Jones, S.C., Burmeister, K., Fox, A.D., Porter, M., Holliday, N.P., 2022. North Atlantic Current and European Slope Current circulation in the Rockall Trough observed using moorings and gliders.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127(12), p.e2022JC019291, doi:10.1029/2022JC019291.

Huthnance, J., Hopkins, J., Berx, B., Dale, A., Holt, J., Hosegood, P., Inall, M., Jones, S.C., Loveday, B.R., Miller, P.I. and Polton, J., 2022. Ocean shelf exchange, NW European shelf seas: Measurements, estimates and comparisons. Progress in Oceanography, 202, p.102760, doi: 10.1016/j.pocean.2022.102760.

Li F, Lozier MS, Bacon S, Bower AS, Cunningham SA, de Jong MF, deYoung B, Fraser N, Fried N, Han G, Holliday NP, Holte J, Houpert L, Inall ME, Johns WE, Jones S, Johnson C, Karstensen J, Le Bras IA, Lherminier P, Lin X, Mercier H, Oltmanns M, Pacini A, Petit T, Rickart RS, Rayner D, Straneo F, Thierry V, Visbeck M, Yahayaev I & Zhou-Show C (2021) Subpolar North Atlantic western boundary desity anomalies and the Meridional Overturning Circulation. Nature Communications 12: 3002 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23350-2  

Houpert, L., S. Cunningham, N. Fraser, C. Johnson, N. Holliday, S. Jones, B. Moat and D. Rayner (2020) Observed variability of the North Atlantic Current in the Rockall Trough from four years of mooring measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125, doi:10.1029/2020JC016403.

Jones, S.C., Inall, M.E., Porter, M., Graham, J.A., Cottier, F. (2020) Storm-driven across-shelf oceanic flows into coastal waters. Ocean Science 16(2) 389-403. https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-389-2020 

Fraser, N., Inall, M.E., Magaldi,M.G., Haine, T.W.N., Jones, S.C.  Wintertime Fjord-Shelf Interaction and Ice Sheet Melting in Southeast Greenland.  Submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, August 2018.

Porter, M., Dale, A., Jones, S.C., Siemering, B., Inall, M.E. Cross-slope flow driven by the on shelf deflection of a slope current: a supply of nutrients and heat to the European Shelf. Submitted to Deep-Sea Research Part I, May 2018.

Jones, S.C., Cottier, F.R., Inall, M.E., Griffiths, C. (2018) Decadal variability on the Northwest European continental shelf.  Submitted to Progress in Oceanography. doi: 10.1016/j.pocean.2018.01.012

Jones, S.C. (2016) Shelf edge exchange and the influence on coastal oceanography. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Aberdeen

Painter, S.C., Hartman, S.E., Kivimäe, C., Salt, L., Clargo, N.M., Bozec, Y., Daniels, C.J., Jones, S.C., Hemsely, V.S., Munns, L., Allen, S. (2015).  Carbon exchange on the Hebrides Shelf, west of Scotland. Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1002/2015JC011599

Jullion, L., Jones, S.C., Naveira Garabato, A.C., Meredith, M.P. (2010). Wind-controlled export of Antarctic Bottom Water out of the Weddell Sea. Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L09609, doi:10.1029/2010GL042822

Other publications

Macdonald, F., Weeks, R.J., Houpert, L., Howe, J A., Jones, S.C. (2016). The Scottish Marine Robotics Facility: use of unmanned vehicles for environmental measurement, monitoring and decision making. Invited paper, 10th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, (CAMS 2016), Trondheim, Norway.

I am a physical oceanographer with specialisms in observational oceanography, time series analysis and data visualisation.

I am also an expert on the oceanography of waters off the Scottish west coast, and can provide advice on flow pathways, water properties and their relationship with local weather patterns.

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Professional memberships

ICES WGOH (Working Group on Oceanic Hydrography) chair-invited member, January 2019 – present

Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society: member since 2016

Challenger Society for Marine Science: member since 2014

Insitute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology: member since 2014

Expert advice to regulators / government 

Scottish Ocean Climate Status Report 2017: Contributor

Gonzalez-Pola, C., Larsen, K.M., Fratantoni, P. and Beszczynska-Möller, A. (Eds.). 2023. ICES Report on Ocean Climate 2021. ICES Cooperative Research Reports (CRR). https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.24755574

ICES. 2021. Working Group on Oceanic Hydrography (WGOH; outputs from 2020 meeting). ICES Scientific Reports. 3:91. 12 pp. https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.8562

NERC, 2021. Report of the NERC Environmental Data Service (EDS) Strategic Need Advisory Group, August 2021. Internal document.

González-Pola, C., Larsen, K. M. H., Fratantoni, P., and Beszczynska-Möller, A. (Eds.). 2020. ICES Report on Ocean Climate 2019. ICES Cooperative Research Reports No. 350. 136 pp. https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.7537

González-Pola, C., Larsen, K. M. H., Fratantoni, P., and Beszczynska-Möller, A. (Eds.) 2019. ICES Report on Ocean Climate 2018. ICES Cooperative Research Report No. 349. 122 pp. https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.5461

Relevant research expeditions / cruises

DY181, RRS Discovery. July 2024. PI: Kristin Burmeister.  Mooring and CTD operations.

M184, R/V Meteor.  August / September 2022.  PI: Dr. Johannes Karstensen (GEOMAR). Deploy novel Sonardyne FETCH pressure sensor in Labrador Sea, Mooring and CTD operations.

DY120, RRS Discovery.  October 2020, PI: Prof. Stuart Cunningham (SAMS). Mooring and CTD operations.

DY108, RRS Discovery, September / October 2019, PI: Dr. Veerle Huvenne (NOC-S).  Mooring and CTD operations.

DY017, RRS Discovery.  October / November 2014, PI: Dr. Stuart Painter (NOC-S). Vessel-Mounted ADCP operator, Sea-Bird CTD processing.

JC88, RRS James Cook.   June / July 2013, Hebridean shelf-edge. PI: Prof. Mark Inall (SAMS).  Vessel-Mounted ADCP operator.

D376, RRS Discovery.  June / July 2012, Celtic Sea.  PI: Prof. Mark Inall (SAMS).  Vessel-Mounted ADCP operator.

RV Calanus. March 2013. Servicing the Tiree Passage Mooring.

RV Calanus. August 2013. Replacing the Tiree Passage Mooring.

Outreach/public engagement 

Interview for BBC Scotland on potential for AMOC slowdown, March 2024.

Interview on Channel 5 News on the 2023 marine heat wave, July 2023

Animation of OSNAP robotic glider mission during COVID, resulting in a news segment on BBC Scotland radio and BBC Scotland evening news, February 2022.

COP26 outreach event, Dynamic Earth (Edinburgh), November 2021.

Full-page article in Oban Times on the history of AMOC research and SAMS’ contribution, November 2020.

Article on melting Greenland glaciers on BBC evening news, utilising my data animations, December 2018.

Constructed an ocean-fjord simulation tank for teaching and outreach, May 2016.

Science demonstrator at NERC 50th Anniversary event, RRS Discovery, London, October 2015.

Constructed a full-scale robotic glider mock-up for the SAMS Ocean Explorer Centre, Oban, It has subsequently been used in events showcasing SAMS marine robotics capability, including multiple appearances at the Scottish Parliament, May 2013.

Employment history

January 2019 – present: Physical oceanographer. SAMS

2016-2019 Translational Ocean Data Analyst. SAMS

2012-16 Graduate Research Assistant. SAMS

2009-12 Marine Data Scientist. British Oceanographic Data Centre, Liverpool

2007-08 Design Engineer. Finetubes, Plymouth

Qualifications

2016 PhD Marine Science. University of Aberdeen

2009 MSc Oceanography. University of Southampton

2004 BSc Mechanical Design and Manufacture. University of Plymouth

BSc (Hons) Marine Science

Module leader: ‘Advanced Mathematics and Programming’

Lecturer: ‘Fundamentals of Marine Physics’

Lecturer: ‘Ocean Circulation and Climate’

Lecturer: ‘Marine Robotics’

Alumni Research Students

Janne Bruhns – BSc – UHI