Photograph of Dr Clare Postlethwaite
Group
Data Services
Site
Liverpool
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.
1999-2001: Service Assistant at the National Oceanographic Library, Southampton Oceanography Centre.
1998-2002: PhD Oceanography at the University of Southampton. Developing a strategy for evaluating the role of seasonal sea ice in deep water formation.
1997-1998: MSc Oceanography at the University of Southampton. Research Project: Surface fluxes in the Red Sea.
1993-1997: BSc Mathematics with Study in Continental Europe 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.

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

  • Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) Sponsors 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
Publications
C.F. Postlethwaite, R. Allen, C. Bradbury, G. Duncan, G, Evans, L. Hanley, L. Hewson, D. Lear, K. Millard, C. Miskin-Hymas and R. Wright, 2024. MEDIN Business Plan 2024-2029. https://medin.org.uk/sites/medin/files/documents/Business_Plan_2024_2029_final.pdf.
C.F. Postlethwaite and P.S. Liss, 2022. Data sharing: standards are on the rise. Nature 610, 257, https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03232-3
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_… .
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.