Photograph of Dr Jeff Polton
Group
Marine Systems Modelling
Site
Liverpool
Email
jelt at noc.ac.uk
Biography

since 2007: National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, UK.

2004 – 2007: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.

2002 – 2004: Research Fellow, University of Reading Met. Dept.

1998 – 2002: PhD, University of Reading Met. Dept., (Advisor: Prof. Marshall).

1995 – 1998: University of Cambridge, MA, Mathematics.

 

Research Themes include:

High Resolution Regional Modelling: Advances in simulation of macrotidal shelf seas for operational models.

Wave processes and turbulence: Turbulence modelling, observation and parameterisation development to improve simulation of the ocean.

Dynamical Ecology: Using state-of-the-art hydrodynamic models to investigate the dispersal of commercially or ecologically significant.

Shelf Sea response to changing seas: Impact of changing climate on shelf seas.

 

Research Interest Keywords include:

Tides; internal tides; ocean dynamics; shelf sea dynamics; tidal boundary layer;

Wave induced mixing; Langmuir processes; Large Eddy Simulation techniques;

Regional modelling; regional model configuration; regional model assessment

 

Electronic Profiles:

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Scopus

Loop profile

Researchgate.net

  • National Tidal and Sea Level Facility (NTSLF) - since Mar 2021
  • NEMO Community Engagement Working Group - since Oct 2021
  • Member of Tides Working Group in NEMO consortium (since July 2021)
  • Joint Marine Modelling Programme (JMMP, a Met Office / NERC partnership): Management group member since Dec 13 and NOC project lead Dec 14-Aug17 (as JCOMP). Since Aug 17 JMMP coastal lead.
  • Exec board member for Oceans Pillar of NOC, Liverpool, Manchester Doctoral Training Partnership, and formerly NOC-Liverpool postgraduate admissions and affairs tutor (since Nov 13 and Jun 10, respectively - Jun 18).
  • Working group management board between the School of Earth Science, University Liverpool & NOC (Mar 16 - Feb 20).

 

Links to UKRI projects

Active projects

CANARI. (Climate Change in the Arctic and North Atlantic Region and Impacts on the UK).

NOC contribution to UK Marine and Climate Advisory Service (UKMCAS).

  • 1 Apr 2023 - 31 Mar 2025

MISSING LINK. NERC Pushing the Frontiers.

  • 3 Apr 2023 - 2 Apr 2026

Huracan. (HUrricane Risk Amplification and Changing North Atlantic Natural disasters).

PISCES. (Processes drIving Submarine Canyon fluxES)

  • 1 Oct 2022 - 30 Sept 2025

Surge model maintenance.

  • 1 Apr 2023 - 31 Mar 2025

 

As Principal Investigator (Highlights from last ~5 years):

  • 2021: NOWMAPSIII. Delivery partner for NorthWest Shelf element of the Copernicus Marine Service (Subcontract to the Met Office). PI: £181k
  • 2020: Diagnostic and Assessment toolbox for kilometric scale regional models. Newton Fund: WCSSP-India. PI: £200k
  • 2018: BoBEAS (Bay of Bengal and East Arabian Sea). Newton Fund: WCSSP-India. PI: £73k
  • 2018: anyTide-global. Commonwealth Marine Economy NOC subproject. PI: £38k
  • 2018: Machine Learning for Marine Energy Resource Assessment. NERC Pathfinder (NE/S005811/1). £10.9k
  • 2017: anyTide for Solomon Islands. Commonwealth Marine Economy NOC subproject. £81.7k

As Co-Investigator (Highlights from last ~5 years):

  • 2017: ACCORD (Addressing Challenges of Coastal Communities through Ocean Research for Developing Economies). NERC directed RP: NC ODA. (NE/R000123/1). £3.6M
  • 2017: CAMPUS (Combining Autonomous observations and Models for Predicting and Understanding Shelf seas). NERC directed RP: Autonomous Observing. (NE/R006822/1). £371k(£501k)
  • 2017: C-RISC. (Madagascar storm surge modelling). NE/R009406/1: £101k

Historic projects include:

  • ORCHESTRA (Ocean Regulation of Climate by Heat and Carbon Sequestration and Transports) Directed RP (NE/N018095/1). £2.6M(£7.1M).
  • anyTide: Tidal predictions anywhere along the UK coast that can also be used offline via the use of bookmarks (formerly available via the App Store)
  • North Sea Interactive: A decision-support tool to guide environmental monitoring by the oil and gas industry
  • OSMOSIS: Ocean Surface Mixing, Ocean Submesoscale Interaction Study
  • FASTNEt: Fluxes Across Sloping Topography of the North East Atlantic. Consortium funded from the NERC Ocean Shelf Edge Exchange Research Programme.
  • PycnMix: Pycnocline Mixing in Shelf Seas
  • QICS: Quantifying and Monitoring Potential Ecosystem Impacts of Geological Carbon Storage
  • SSB: Shelf Sea Biogeochemistry