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Contact details

Group:

British Oceanographic Data Centre

Site:

Liverpool

Telephone:

+44 (0)151 795 4949

Profile

Biography

Since 2014: Coordinator of the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC)

2012-2014: Data scientist at the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC), National Oceanography Centre (NOC)

2003-2012: Ice/Ocean modeller at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC)

2002-2003: Post-doctoral research associate at the University of Southampton

2001-2002 Scientific manager of the noble gas laboratory at the University of Southampton

1998-2002 PhD Oceanography at the University of Southamtpon

1997-1998 MSc Oceanography at the University of Southampton

1993-1997 BSc Mathematics at the University of Bristol and University of Hannover

Research interests

Marine data management
Data and metadata standards
Observing and modelling sea ice processes.
Dense water formation.
Oceanographic tracers of water mass ventilation.

Roles

Coorindator of the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN), providing coordination of the UK national framework for marine data management.

Committees

Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) Sposnors Board
Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) Executive Team and its associated Working Groups
Marine Assessment and Reporting Group (MARG) and its associated Evidence Groups
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) Data and Information Group
Archaeology Data Service (ADS) Management Board

Projects

Publications

C. Jolly, J. Jolliffe, C.F. Postlethwaite and E. Heslop, 2021. Value chains in public marine data: A UK case study, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers, No. 2021/11, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/d8bbdcfa-en .

C.F. Postlethwaite, M. Cox, G. Evans, D. Lear, M. Osborne, M. Nelson, J. Parr and J. Rasmussen, 2019. MEDIN Business Plan, 2019-24. www.medin.org.uk/medin/sites/medin/files/documents/MEDIN_Business_Plan_2... .

C.F. Postlethwaite, A.E. Hickman, A McQuatters-Gollop, H. Bryden and P. Woodworth. A prospectus for UK marine sustained observations, 2014. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 372(2025). DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0341.

C.F. Postlethwaite, M.A. Morales Maqueda, G.R. Tattersall, J. Holt and A.J. Willmott, 2011. The effect of tides on dense water formation in Arctic Shelf Seas. Ocean Science. Vol. 7, pp203-217.

V. Le Fouest, C.F. Postlethwaite, M.A. Morales-Maqueda, S. Bélanger and M. Babin, 2011. On the role of tides and strong wind events in promoting summer primary production in the Barents Sea. Continental Shelf Research, Vol. 31, pp1869-1879.

C. F. Postlethwaite, E. J. Rohling, W. J. Jenkins and C. F. Walker, 2005. A tracer study of ventilation in the Japan/East Sea. Deep Sea Research II, Vol. 52, pp1684-1704.

D. Hahm, C. F. Postlethwaite, K. Tamaki and K.-R. Kim, 2004. Mechanisms controlling the distribution of helium and neon in the Arctic Seas: the case of the Knipovich Ridge. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 229, pp125-139.

G. F. Lane-Serff, D. A. Smeed and C. Postlethwaite, 2000. Multi-layer hydraulic exchange flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 416, pp269-296.

Publications