Photograph of Dr Richard Cooke
Group
Marine Physics and Ocean Climate
Site
Liverpool
Email
rdco at noc.ac.uk
Biography

Qualifications:

Beng(Hons), MSc(Eng), PhD(Eng).

Background:

Graduated University of Liverpool 2000 with PhD in Engineering. Joined NOC in 2002 as Electronics Engineer to design and develop scientific instrumentation and provide engineering support to coastal science research projects.

Key area supported within Marine Physics and Ocean Climate (MPOC) research group is predominantly the Coastal Ocean Physics (COP) subgroup, particularly the sediment dynamics, transport and physics research science.

Skills and research interests:

  • Electronics engineering and design.
  • Software engineering and design.
  • Embedded systems design and programming.
  • Sensors and instrumentation engineering.

Field Engineer, providing technology support to NOC scientific fieldwork projects.

Instrumentation Engineer, providing system integration, repair, maintenance and operation of various NOC scientific instrumentation.

Research and Development Engineer, providing design and development of new scientific instrumentation.

Fieldwork research projects supported:

  • INDIA project, Faro, Portugal, 2002.
  • ONR Mine Burial Project, Santa Cruz, March 2003.
  • River Dee Estuary field experiments, 2003–2009 .
  • River Severn field experiments, 2003–2004.
  • Coastal Observatory project, 2002–2009 .
  • Trace metal measurement probe collaborative development work with Prof. Stan Vandenberg and Dr Conrad Chapman of University of Liverpool, DEOS. Dissolved metal concentration monitoring system for ocean applications developed, 2005–2007.
  • LEACOAST2 project 2006–2007, in collaboration with University of Liverpool and University of East Anglia.
  • EU funded Hydralab-SANDS experiment at UPC Barcelona flume facility, 2008, in collaboration with UPC Barcelona and CNRS (Grenoble University), France.
  • FLOCSAM experiment, River Taymar Estuary, UK, 2009 with University of Plymouth and University of East Anglia.
  • Prototype 3-axis Acoustic Doppler Velocity Profiler river estuary field trials, 2009–2011.
  • WISE estuary sediment dynamics project, 2011.
  • EU funded Hydralab-RippleVortex bedform dyamics experiments project at UPC Barcelona flume facility, 2012, in collaboration with UPC Barcelona and CNRS (Grenoble University), France.
  • COHBED estuary bedform dynamcs project in the River Dee estuary, 2013, in collaboration with University of Bangor, et al.
  • EU funded Hydralab SandT-Pro/SINBAD project at UPC Barcelona flume facility, 2013, in collaboration with UPC Barcelona, CNRS (Grenoble University) and University of Aberdeen.
  • INSTRON tidal turbine bedform dynamics project at T.E.S. flume facility, University of Hull, 2013 and 2014, in collaboration with University of Hull, et al.
  • Shelf-Seas BioGeoChem project, Celtic Sea, 2014, in collaboration with Plymouth Marine Lab, et al.
  • MegaPEX coastal sediments dynamics project off the Dutch coastline near The Hague, Netherlands, 2014, in collaboration with Delft University of Technology et al.
  • Shelf-Seas BioGeoChem project, Celtic Sea, 2015, in collaboration with Plymouth Marine Lab, et al.
  • EU funded Hydralab+ sediment dynamics experiments project at UPC Barcelona flume facility, 2016-2017, in collaboration with UPC Barcelona and CNRS (Grenoble University), France.
  • NERC funded BLUEcoast project, 2016-2019, researching into physical and biological dynamic coastal processes at various sites around UK coastline.

Past research and development projects:

  • Development of NOC Acoustic Backscatter Systems for sediment particulate size distribution and concentration measurements.
  • Development of NOC Synchronous Timing Generator to control instrument recording times.
  • Development of NOC Acoustic Doppler Velocity Profilers for sediment transport studies.
  • Collaborative development of University of Liverpool, metal-ion probe system to measure dissolved metals concentrations.