Research
Research
A decade of geophysical fluid dynamics, from submesoscale ocean turbulence to global air–sea coupling. This is the physics foundation the modelling and evaluation work stands on: knowing how the ocean and atmosphere actually exchange momentum and heat is what lets me judge when a model has it right.
- Publications10 peer-reviewed, 7 first-author
- Conference talks45 conference, 34 invited
Journal papers 5
- Rapid Vertical Exchange at Fronts in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
- The influence of front strength on the development and equilibration of symmetric instability. Part 1. Growth and saturation
- The influence of front strength on the development and equilibration of symmetric instability. Part 2. Nonlinear evolution
- Nonlinear hydrodynamic instability and turbulence in eccentric astrophysical discs with vertical structure
- 3D printed microfluidic circuitry via multijet-based additive manufacturing
Conference proceedings 11
- Slantwise convection and inertial oscillations in ocean fronts
- The evolution and equilibration of a symmetrically unstable front
- Vertical transport and mixing driven by symmetric instability in strong ocean fronts
- Ocean fronts: An affront to global scales
- Equilibration of symmetric instability and inertial oscillations at a finite-width submesoscale front
- The influence of symmetric and inertial instabilities on the evolution of oceanic fronts
- Equilibration of symmetric instability and inertial oscillations at an idealised submesoscale front
- The late-time evolution of an isolated symmetrically unstable front
- Transport and evolution of symmetric instability in an unstratified layer
- Nonlinear oscillations and zonal flows in turbulent eccentric astrophysical discs with vertical structure
- The role of interactions between waves and baroclinic critical layers in zombie vortex self-replication
Theses 2
Technical reports 9
- The evolution & equilibration of an isolated symmetrically-unstable front
- On the secondary instability of Rayleigh-Bénard convection
- Spatio-temporal stability of the stratified Ekman boundary layer
- The effect of rapid rotation & stratification on homogeneous turbulent shear flows via linear kinematic simulations
- Computation of horizontally invariant nonlinear solutions in an eccentric shearing box
- On the fragmentation of liquid jets by neutron irradiation
- On the shearing box approximation for the compressible Euler equations
- A brief review of localisation effects in finite-size parametric subharmonic instability
- Development of an efficient baroclinic cooling prescription for global core collapse simulations into protoplanetary disks
Selected talks
- Ocean Fronts: An affront to global scales G7 International Digital Twins of the Ocean Summit, London, England, 2022
- A causal analysis framework for complex non-linear air–sea physics Parameterisations for Global Dynamical Models, École de Physique des Houches, Les Houches, France, 2025
- Spectral causal analysis of global air–sea coupling feedbacks EXCLAIM Symposium: The Future of AI in Weather & Climate Modelling, Zürich, Switzerland, 2025
- Vertical coherent mode transport driven by symmetric instability in ocean fronts European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 2023
Journal referee
Journal of Fluid Mechanics · Nature Climate Change · Journal of Physical Oceanography · American Meteorological Society