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 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)
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
- PhD in Physical Oceanography (2019), University of Southampton, UK.
- MSc in Physical, Chemical and Geological Oceanography (2015), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Brazil.
- BSc in Oceanography (2013), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Brazil.
Updated publications
Co-organiser of the NOC Physical Oceanography Seminars
Member of the International OSNAP Steering Committee
Member of the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) RWG-Amundsen & Bellingshausen Sector leadership team (2021-present)
ECR participant in the Near-Term Variability and Prediction of the Antarctic Climate System (AntClimNow) Antarctic Climate Indicators project group
Challenger Society institutional representative
Member of the Brazilian National Institute of Science and Technology of the Cryosphere (INCT-CRIOSFERA) research group
Member of the Brazilian High-Latitudes Oceanography Group (GOAL)
ATLANTIS (Atlantic Climate and Environment Strategic Science), NOC responsible for the Ellett Array moorings (WP 1.1.1)
UK-OSNAP (Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Programme)
ITGC/TARSAN (Thwaites-Amundsen Regional Survey and Network Integrating Atmosphere-Ice-Ocean Processes)
GOAL/PROBIOMA (Oceanographic and Biogeochemical Processes Associated with the Marine Carbon Cycle Surrounding the Vitória-Trindade Chain)
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.)
GOAL/ImpactANT (Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity and Resilience of Marine Ecosystems in the Antarctic Peninsula Region)