Dr Tiago Segabinazzi Dotto

Photograph of Dr Tiago Segabinazzi Dotto
Group
Marine Physics and Ocean Climate
Site
Southampton

Research Interest

  • North Atlantic Current and AMOC variability
  • Subpolar gyre dynamics
  • High-latitude oceanography and how polar oceans influence our climate
  • Shelf-slope exchange processes
  • Ocean-atmosphere-ice interactions, including ice shelf-ocean interactions and ice shelf-ocean boundary layer
  • New technologies applied to oceanography

Current PhD and MSc Students

  • Marina Noro (Universidade de Sao Paulo-Brazil, co-supervisor): On the role of Antarctic Shelf Bottom Water in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (2022 - 2026)
  • Brendon Damini (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande-Brazil, advisory committee): Changes on the Antarctic Circumpolar Current frontal systems and their impacts on the Circumpolar Deep Waters (2023 - 2027)
  • Lauren Cruz (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande-Brazil, co-supervisor): Changes in the Eddy Field Induced by the Antarctic Sea Ice Decline (2025 - 2027)

Fieldwork Experience (selected cruises; total weeks at sea: 40+)

  • OSNAP/DY181 (2024), Rockall Trough and Iceland Basin (North Atlantic), RRS Discovery: Co-Chief Scientist and Mooring processing
  • ITGC/TARSAN (2022), Amundsen Sea (Antarctica), IBRV Nathaniel B Palmer: VMP and CTD/LADCP operator
  • GOAL/PROVOCCAR (2020), Northern Antarctic Peninsula (Antarctica), NPo Almirante Maximiano: Watch leader, cruise planning and CTD/LADCP operator
  • DynOPO (2017), Orkney Passage, Weddell and Scotia Seas (Antarctica) - RRS James Clark Ross: CTD operator, Autosal measurements and ARGO floats deployments
  • GOAL/NAUTILUS (2015), Northern Antarctic Peninsula (Antarctica), NPo Almirante Maximiano: Watch leader, cruise planning and CTD/LADCP operator

Education

Updated publications

Google Scholar

ORCID

Co-leader of the Theme 1 ("Arctic Ocean climate, ecosystems and biodiversity") of the NOC Arctic Mission

Member of the International OSNAP Steering Committee [2024-present]

Member of the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) RWG-Amundsen & Bellingshausen Sector leadership team [2021-present]

Challenger Society institutional representative [2024-present]

Member of the Brazilian National Institute of Science and Technology of the Cryosphere (INCT-CRIOSFERA) research group [2010-present]

Member of the Brazilian High-Latitudes Oceanography Group (GOAL) [2010-present]

Current projects:

SORTED (Subpolar Gyre Observations, models and AI to Resolve Tipping points and provide Early warning Detection) [2025-2028]

ATLANTIS (Atlantic Climate and Environment Strategic Science), NOC responsible for the Ellett Array moorings (WP 1.1.1) [2024-2029]

GOAL/PROBIOMA (Oceanographic and Biogeochemical Processes Associated with the Marine Carbon Cycle Surrounding the Vitória-Trindade Chain), Research collaborator [2024-2027]

GOAL/PRO-SAMBA (Oceanographic Processes in Climatic Hotspots of the Southern Ocean: New Synergies and Advances in Physical and Biogeochemical Knowledge and Monitoring around the Antarctic Peninsula), Research collaborator [2024-2027]

GOAL/ImpactANT (Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity and Resilience of Marine Ecosystems in the Antarctic Peninsula Region), Research collaborator [2024-2027]

Abyssal-AI (Connecting North and South to Unlock Deep Atlantic Circulation with AI), Research collaborator [2024-2027]

 

Past projects:

UK-OSNAP (Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Programme), Research scientist [2023-2024]

ITGC/TARSAN (Thwaites-Amundsen Regional Survey and Network Integrating Atmosphere-Ice-Ocean Processes), Postdoctoral researcher [2020-2023]