Fields of Research

Physical oceanography
Climate change processes
Glaciology
Chemical oceanography
Atmospheric composition, chemistry and processes

Research Objectives

Antarctic and Southern Ocean oceanic processes
Understanding climate change
Climate variability (excl. social impacts)
Effects of climate change on Antarctic and sub-Antarctic environments (excl. social impacts)
Expanding knowledge in the earth sciences
Global effects of climate change (excl. Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and the South Pacific) (excl. social impacts)
Oceanic processes (excl. in the Antarctic and Southern Ocean)
Assessment and management of Antarctic and Southern Ocean ecosystems
Climate change models

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

A double-thermostad warm-core ring of the Gulf Stream; Journal of Physical Oceanography
Along-slope variability of cross-slope eddy transport in East Antarctica; Geophysical Research Letters
Deep argo reveals bottom water properties and pathways in the Australian-Antarctic Basin; JGR Oceans
Dynamics of a standing meander of the Subantarctic Front diagnosed from satellite altimetry and along-stream anomalies of temperature and salinity; Journal of Physical Oceanography
Eddy heat flux across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current estimated from sea surface height standard deviation; Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
Observed storm track dynamics in Drake Passage; Journal of Physical Oceanography
Recent recovery of Antarctic Bottom Water formation in the Ross Sea driven by climate anomalies; Nature Geoscience
Response of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet to past and future climate change; Nature
Southern Ocean [in “State of the Climate in 2020”]; Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Spatial variability of Antarctic Bottom Water in the Australian Antarctic Basin from 2018–2020 captured by Deep Argo; Geophysical Research Letters
The Polar Front in Drake Passage: a composite-mean stream-coordinate view; Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Research Projects

Research Candidate Supervision