My role at SAMS is primarily to do with robotics including AUV and glider operations. I am involved in all aspects of robotics operations from logistics to deployment and piloting to data processing. I am a sea going oceanographer and, as such, I regularly participate in research cruises. I also work with data from the instruments we deploy including multi-year oceanographic data from moorings or CTD profiles. Part of my role is to develop and curate data processing toolboxes and other software for reading and processing data.

Projects I am currently working on

Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (UK-OSNAP)

Climate Linked Atlantic Sector Science (CLASS)

PRIZE Arctic Productivity in the Seasonal Ice Zone (Arctic PRIZE)

Marine Protected Area Management and Monitoring (MarPAMM)

Instruments

Seagliders

Gavia offshore surveyor

AUV

CTD (moored and profiling)

ADCP

Fieldwork experience

Mooring deployments

CTD operations

Bathymetric surveys

Offshore research expeditions to Antarctica, Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans aboard RRS James Clark Ross, RRS James Cook and RRS Discovery

Platforms:

Research vessels; sailing ships; RIBs

Relevant training courses / qualifications achieved

Glider pilot

GAVIA offshore surveyor

Sea survival

VHF