Previous Seminars

This page provides a list of the previous seminars held at the NOC.
Please use the filter below to select a seminar listing.

January 2022

A full-tensor approach to parameterising oceanic eddy tracer transport
Wednesday, 19 January, 2022 - 14:00
Dr Michael Haigh ( Imperial College London / currently British Antarctic Survey)

December 2021

Dr. Hemant Khatri - Title TBA
Thursday, 9 December, 2021 - 14:00
Dr. Hemant Khatri, University of Liverpool
A scale-dependent analysis of barotropic vorticity budget in an eddy-permitting global ocean simulation
Wednesday, 8 December, 2021 - 14:00
Dr Hemant Khatri (University of Liverpool)

November 2021

Significant variability of structure and predictability of Arctic Ocean surface pathways affects basin-wide connectivity
Thursday, 25 November, 2021 - 14:00
Dr. Chris Wilson, National Oceanography Centre
Does seasonality matter? New results on the influence of seasonal variability in flux attenuation on global organic carbon fluxes and nutrient distributions
Wednesday, 17 November, 2021 - 14:00
Francisco de Melo Virissimo (National Oceanography Centre, UK)

October 2021

Coastal hazard from waves, tides and surges interaction
Wednesday, 27 October, 2021 - 14:00
Julia Rulent
Dr. Dave Williams - Title TBA
Wednesday, 13 October, 2021 - 14:00
Dr. Dave Williams, Willis Towers Watson

September 2021

Quasi-steady structures organizing Lagrangian transport
Wednesday, 15 September, 2021 - 14:00
Dr Rodrigo Duran, U.S. Department of Energy

June 2021

Estimating time-dependent mesoscale mixing from moorings in the Irminger Sea
Wednesday, 9 June, 2021 - 14:00
Rick de Kreij, Eindhoven University of Technology

May 2021

From the North Atlantic Oscillation to the Tropics and back… (Fridtjof Nansen Medal 2020 talk)
Wednesday, 12 May, 2021 - 14:00
Richard J. Greatbatch (Fridtjof Nansen Medal 2020 Recipient)
Application of a Hurricane Boundary Layer Model for Improved Surface Wind Forecast
Wednesday, 5 May, 2021 - 14:00
Mansur Ali Jisan

April 2021

Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: Monitoring and Modelling for Caribbean SIDS
Wednesday, 21 April, 2021 - 14:00
Dr Judith Wolf
What is a DOI, what is data citation and why bother?
Wednesday, 14 April, 2021 - 14:00
James Ayliffe

March 2021

Using SAR satellite data to delineate coastal features from Bangladesh case study
Wednesday, 24 March, 2021 - 14:00
Clive Neil
Accumulation and dispersion dynamics of mud and sand particles in a continental shelf under estuarine influence: a numerical modelling analysis (Gironde, France)
Wednesday, 10 March, 2021 - 14:00
Dr Mélanie Diaz
Unsustainable sand mining drives channel instabilities in the Mekong River and its Delta
Wednesday, 3 March, 2021 - 14:00
Dr Chris Hackney (Newcastle University)

February 2021

Quantifying Seasonal‐to‐Interannual‐Scale Storm Impacts on Beach Morphology Along a Cuspate Coast with a Hybrid Empirical Orthogonal Function Approach
Wednesday, 17 February, 2021 - 14:00
Matthew Conlin

December 2020

Quantifying the impacts of uncertainties in coastal hazard modelling
Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 14:00
Charlotte Lyddon
LISCO: Maritime Activities in Liverpool
Wednesday, 2 December, 2020 - 14:00
Russell Bird & Simone Dürr

November 2020

How do sediment transport and deposition vary spatially and temporally in the southern Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta?
Wednesday, 18 November, 2020 - 14:00
Dr Richard Hale, Old Dominion University, USA
MIZ – the marginal ice zone: Seasonal and synoptic timescales
Wednesday, 4 November, 2020 - 14:00
Prof. William Perrie, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada

October 2020

The Habitability of Europe and its Investigation by Radar Sounding
Wednesday, 28 October, 2020 - 14:00
Cyril Grima, University of Texas, USA
Evaluating the role of Nature Based Solutions for Enhancing Coastal Resilience
Wednesday, 21 October, 2020 - 14:00
Ali Mohammad Rezaie
NOC Virtual Seminars: Global and regional aspects of ocean heat uptake in CMIP6 simulations of the historical climate
Wednesday, 7 October, 2020 - 14:00
Dr Till Kuhlbrodt, NCAS, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading
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September 2020

Exploring the drivers of global and regional sea-level change over the 21st century and beyond
Wednesday, 16 September, 2020 - 14:00
Dr Matthew Palmer (MetOffice) - POSTPONED
POSTPONED - new date to be confirmed
Variability and trends in 20th century ocean heat content as simulated by the UK Earth System Model (UKESM1)
Wednesday, 16 September, 2020 - 14:00
Dr Till Kuhlbrodt (NCAS, University of Reading) -POSTPONED
POSTPONED - new date to be confirmed
NOC Virtual Seminars, “Horizon scanning tools for policy use”
Wednesday, 9 September, 2020 - 14:00
Dr Kenisha Garnett (Cranfield University)
Virtual zoom link: https://ukri.zoom.us/j/97043562923

June 2020

The Blue Economy: An Introduction for Non-Economists
Wednesday, 17 June, 2020 - 14:00
Dr. Charles Colgan (CBE, USA)
Virtual zoom link: https://ukri.zoom.us/j/94132051842
Virtual Seminars, Coastal Hazard Modelling from the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Wednesday, 10 June, 2020 - 14:00
Dr Li Erikson (USGS)
Virtual zoom link: https://ukri.zoom.us/j/93312610859

May 2020

Virtual Seminars, Novel sources of Marine Environmental Data
Wednesday, 13 May, 2020 - 14:00
Malcolm Kitchen (Met Office) & Dr Tinkle Chugh (University of Exeter).
Virtual zoom link: https://ukri.zoom.us/j/594427942

April 2020

Virtual Seminars, 2 talks with a digital theme
Wednesday, 8 April, 2020 - 14:00
Dr Stephen Hallett (Cranfield University) & Tom Gardner (BODC))
Virtual zoom link: https://ukri.zoom.us/j/287707039

February 2020

Can our toolbox benefit from “Machine Learning” ?
Wednesday, 12 February, 2020 - 14:00
Dr Nicolas Bruneau (NOC)

January 2020

The importance of resolving coastal currents in simulations of larval dispersal
Wednesday, 29 January, 2020 - 14:00
Dr Sophie Ward (School of Ocean Science Bangor University)
Climate change in the Barents Sea: Ice-ocean interactions, water mass formation and variability
Wednesday, 8 January, 2020 - 14:00
Dr Benjamin Barton

December 2019

Ageostrophyc circulations: the origin, role and effect on mixing and water mass transformation
Wednesday, 4 December, 2019 - 14:00
Dr Maria Luneva

November 2019

Changing shores, 4 talks from LISCO
Wednesday, 27 November, 2019 - 14:00
Researchers in LISCO: Lee Swift, Kostas Kiriakoulakis, Simon Williams & Jonathan Green
Distributed fiber-optic sensors for real-time monitoring of marine infrastructure, deep ocean, coastal environment and quantifying the risks posed by sea-floor hazards
Wednesday, 20 November, 2019 - 14:00
Dr Mohammad Belal (NOCS)
Proudman Lecture Prof Julie Pietrzak
Wednesday, 13 November, 2019 - 14:00
Prof Julie Pietrzak-DelftTU
Modification of the air-water momentum flux and wind-driven currents by ocean waves
Wednesday, 6 November, 2019 - 14:00
Dr Miguel Teixeira (University of Reading)

October 2019

Cross-shelf exchanges in the northern Bay of Biscay
Wednesday, 30 October, 2019 - 14:00
Dr Anıl Akpinar
Simulation of wave-current interactions under hurricane conditions using FVCOM: The impact on wave and current fields
Wednesday, 23 October, 2019 - 14:00
Dr Yujuan Sun (NOC)
Measuring and investigating environmental flows
Wednesday, 16 October, 2019 - 14:00
Dr. Jonny Higham (SoES-University of Liverpool)
Black Sea Circulation Model with a Bosphorus Strait Exchange; Possible Influence of Climate Change on the Black Sea Dynamics.
Wednesday, 9 October, 2019 - 14:00
Dr Murat Gunduz (Dokuz Eylul University, Institute of Marine Sciences and Technology - NOC visiting fellow)
Why Have We Wrecked Our Estuaries? Perpetrators & Can We Learn How To Manage Waterways Sustainably Instead?
Wednesday, 2 October, 2019 - 14:00
Dr Bob Kirby (NOC)

September 2019

A century of AMOC variability reconstructed from observations using the Bernoulli inverse
Wednesday, 25 September, 2019 - 14:00
Dr Neil Fraser (SAMS)

July 2019

The role of ocean in a changing climate: a carbon cycle feedback framework
Wednesday, 17 July, 2019 - 14:00
Dr. Anna Katavouta (University of Liverpool)
Science communication workshop
Wednesday, 10 July, 2019 - 14:00
Dr Ana Payo Payo (University of Aberdeen)

June 2019

FESOM2 - global ocean modeling on unstructured meshes. Recent developments.
Wednesday, 26 June, 2019 - 14:00
Dr Dmitry Sidorenko and Dr Nikolay Koldunov (AWI, Germany)
The role of freshwater in Arctic fjords described using isotopes of oxygen (and some small amount of modelling)
Wednesday, 19 June, 2019 - 14:00
Dr Lewis Drysdale (NOC Liverpool)
Chris Unsworth; Who am I and what am I doing here?
Wednesday, 12 June, 2019 - 14:00
Dr Chris Unsworth (NOC Liverpool)
Global ocean circulation and its key dependence on eddy energy dissipation
Wednesday, 5 June, 2019 - 14:00
Dr Julian Mak (University of Oxford, UK)

May 2019

Distribution, composition and transport of dissolved organic matter in shelf seas
Wednesday, 29 May, 2019 - 14:00
Dr Nealy Carr
Eddy dynamics and filaments inject oxygenated, high-salinity Persian Gulf Water into the Bay of Bengal
Wednesday, 15 May, 2019 - 14:00
Dr Peter Sheehan - University of East Anglia
Tidal- / eddy-driven circulation and heat transfer on the continental shelf of Antarctica
Thursday, 9 May, 2019 - 12:00
Dr Andrew Stewart - UCLA Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (USA)
Doodson room
Melting Ice - Rising Seas: Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment
Wednesday, 8 May, 2019 - 14:00
Dr. Colin Summerhayes (Scott Polar Research Institute - Cambridge University)

March 2019

Did WireWall deliver more than Lego adventures?
Wednesday, 27 March, 2019 - 14:00
Dr Jenny Brown (NOC - Liverpool)
Coastal flood : toward local hazard assessment, forecast and projections
Wednesday, 20 March, 2019 - 14:00
Dr Déborah Idier (BRGM - Orléans, France)
The role of computational fluid dynamics in understanding shipwreck site formation processes
Wednesday, 6 March, 2019 - 14:00
Dr Thomas Smyth (University of Huddersfield, UK)

February 2019

Ocean connectivity, structure of marine populations and ecosystem management
Wednesday, 27 February, 2019 - 14:00
Dr Vincent Rossi - MIO (Marseille, France)
A brief history of tides (Ancient and modern knowledge of the tides)
Wednesday, 20 February, 2019 - 14:00
Prof. Phil Woodworth (NOC-Liverpool)
Controlled vocabularies, google dataset search, oceans, scientists: How we are all connected
Wednesday, 6 February, 2019 - 14:00
Dr Alexandra Kokkinaki & Dr Gwenaelle Moncoiffe - BODC

January 2019

Asymmetric behaviour of wind, wave and current interaction and its implications for coastal hazard and marine renewable energy
Wednesday, 30 January, 2019 - 14:00
Dr Qingping Zou (Heriot-Watt University, UK)

December 2018

Physical controls on larval dispersal
Wednesday, 5 December, 2018 - 14:00
Dr Peter Robins (Bangor University, UK)

November 2018

Coastal hazards modelling - Imperial College
Monday, 19 November, 2018 - 14:00
Prof. Matthew Piggott, Branwen Snelling and, Simon Warder (Imperial College, UK)
Doodson room
Dr Pavel Berloff (Imperial College, UK) – Proudman Lecture 2018
Wednesday, 7 November, 2018 - 14:00
Dr Pavel Berloff (Imperial College, UK)

October 2018

Connectivity among marine populations in the Mexican Atlantic
Wednesday, 24 October, 2018 - 14:00
Dr. Carmen A. Villegas Sánchez (Instituto Tecnológico de Chetumal - Mexico )
Kinetic Energy transfer in the topographically-rich western tropical Pacific
Wednesday, 17 October, 2018 - 14:00
Dr Sarah Zedler (NOC)
Multi-decadal sea-level changes from saltmarsh indicators and tide gauges
Wednesday, 10 October, 2018 - 14:00
Dr Marta Marcos (Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies – University of the Balearic Islands, Spain)
Harnessing the data revolution to boost the model-based decision-making in coastal engineering
Wednesday, 3 October, 2018 - 14:00
Dr Ruo-Qian Wang (University of Dundee,UK)

September 2018

Turbidity on the European Shelf: 20th Century trends and future changes caused by large-scale tidal energy
Wednesday, 26 September, 2018 - 14:00
Dr Robert Wilson (Strathclyde University, UK)

July 2018

Ocean dynamics of the Gulf of Tehuantepec and its western margin
Wednesday, 25 July, 2018 - 14:00
Dr Cristobal Reyes Hernández (Universidad del Mar, Mexico)
3D Modelling of nearshore morphodynamics in a topographically challenging environment
Wednesday, 18 July, 2018 - 14:00
Dr Pushpa Dissanayake (Kiel University, Germany)

June 2018

Plankton microecology, or how physics rules the life of microorganisms
Friday, 22 June, 2018 - 11:00
Dr Oscar Guadayol (University of Lincoln, UK)
Doodson Room
How weather-related tides affect forecasts of storm surge
Wednesday, 20 June, 2018 - 14:00
Dr Joanne Williams (NOC)
A new look at the PV distribution in the World Ocean
Wednesday, 13 June, 2018 - 14:00
Dr Arnaud Czaja (Imperial College)
Turbidity currents in submarine canyons
Wednesday, 6 June, 2018 - 14:00
Dr Marta Payo Payo (NOC)

May 2018

Four Decades of Ocean Data
Wednesday, 16 May, 2018 - 14:00
Dr Lesley Rickards and Dr Roy Lowry (BODC)
Quantifying the on-going isostatic signal along the World's coastlines. A key information to assess current and future sea-level changes.
Wednesday, 9 May, 2018 - 14:00
Dr Matteo Vacchi (Lecturer in Coastal Geomorphology, College of Life and Environmental Sciences University of Exeter )
Marine Data Products team (NOC)
Wednesday, 2 May, 2018 - 14:00
Jill Burgess - Marine Data Products team (NOC)

March 2018

Satellite Oceanography at NOC
Wednesday, 21 March, 2018 - 14:00
Dr. Chris Banks (NOC)

February 2018

Wave-tide interaction and implications for flooding
Wednesday, 21 February, 2018 - 14:30
Dr. Matthew Lewis (Bangor University)

November 2017

Through the eyes of a microwave: imaging the environment with X-band marine radar
Wednesday, 22 November, 2017 - 14:00
Dr. Dave McCann (NOC)
ICES and Fisheries Management - All down the drain?
Wednesday, 15 November, 2017 - 14:00
Dr Cornelius Hammer (ICES President)
Tidal energy resource & interaction between channels in the Goto Islands, Japan – and an improvement in the representation of tidal turbines in regional-scale models.
Wednesday, 8 November, 2017 - 14:00
Simon Waldman (Heriot-Watt)
Dr. Nicolas Bruneau (NOC)
Wednesday, 1 November, 2017 - 14:00
Dr. Nicolas Bruneau (NOC)

October 2017

Combined effects of hydrodynamics and cohesive clay on bedform morphology and migration on sandy tidal flats
Wednesday, 18 October, 2017 - 14:00
Dr. Lichtman Dougal (NOC)
Exploring the Arctic: from ancient times to present day
Wednesday, 11 October, 2017 - 14:00
Dr Maria Luneva (NOC)

June 2017

Science for all talks
Wednesday, 28 June, 2017 - 14:00
Christine Sams, Jo Williams and Paul Bell
A process-based, idealized study of salt and sediment dynamics in well-mixed estuaries
Wednesday, 21 June, 2017 - 14:00
Dr Xiaoyan Wei
Tidal turbine environmental impact and decision-making for shoreline management
Wednesday, 7 June, 2017 - 14:00
Dr Xiaorong Li

May 2017

Particle-based methods for complex fluid flows
Wednesday, 24 May, 2017 - 14:00
Dr Yan Zhou

March 2017

North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperatures and UK Hydroclimatic Extremes
Wednesday, 22 March, 2017 - 14:00
Dr Tom Matthew
'Tidal turbine environmental impact and decision-making for shoreline management
Wednesday, 15 March, 2017 - 14:00
Dr Xiaorong Li
Turning the Arctic inside out – a new inverse method for understanding the ocean circulation
Wednesday, 8 March, 2017 - 14:00
Dr Neill Mackay
Resilience of Coastal Infrastructure
Wednesday, 1 March, 2017 - 14:00
Dr Thomas Prime

February 2017

Turbulent control of the physical structure of continental shelf seas
Wednesday, 15 February, 2017 - 14:00
Dr Matthew Palmer
Drones and sensors research
Wednesday, 8 February, 2017 - 14:00
Dr Frederic Bezombes

December 2016

Rough bottoms: the effect of bed roughness on waves in coastal wetlands
Wednesday, 7 December, 2016 - 14:00
Dr Iris Moeller

November 2016

Planetary waves and circulation in a polar basin
Wednesday, 23 November, 2016 - 14:00
Professor Andrew J. Willmott - Newcastle University
Observing internal tides using ocean gliders
Wednesday, 16 November, 2016 - 14:00
Dr Robert Hall - University of East Anglia
Aquatic eddy correlation - Past experiences and future challenges.
Wednesday, 9 November, 2016 - 14:00
Dr Andreas Brand - EAWAG
Dr Robyn Tuerena - University of Liverpool
Wednesday, 2 November, 2016 - 14:00
Dr Robyn Tuerena - University of Liverpool

October 2016

Jacqueline McSweeney - Spatiotemporal Variability of Sediment Transport Processes in Delaware Estuary
Wednesday, 19 October, 2016 - 14:00
Jacqueline McSweeney

September 2016

Dr Jason Kirby - Holocene relative sea-level changes in, Donegal, north-west Ireland: an empirical test for glacial isostatic adjustment models.
Wednesday, 21 September, 2016 - 14:00
Dr Jason Kirby

June 2016

An object oriented mesh generator: application to flooding in the Douro estuary
Wednesday, 8 June, 2016 - 14:00
Dr Amelia Araujo

May 2016

Detection and attribution of 20th century sea-level rise
Wednesday, 25 May, 2016 - 14:00
Dr Aimee Slangen
Ocean Mixing: A World Tour
Wednesday, 11 May, 2016 - 14:00
Prof Tom Rippeth

March 2016

Acoustic monitoring from shore to shelf – Nature, humans and climate change
Wednesday, 23 March, 2016 - 14:00
Dr Philippe Blondel
Dr Megan Williams, NOC
Wednesday, 16 March, 2016 - 14:00
Dr Megan Williams, NOC
Salt marsh resilience to violent storms and hurricanes
Wednesday, 9 March, 2016 - 14:00
Dr Nicoletta Leonardi
Physical modelling of tidal turbines and acoustic imaging of turbidity currents in the Congo submarine canyon
Wednesday, 2 March, 2016 - 14:00
Dr Steve Simmons

February 2016

Impact of storms on coastlines: preparing for the future without forgetting the past? Examples from Europe, USA and Bangladesh
Wednesday, 10 February, 2016 - 14:00
Prof Paolo Ciavola

December 2015

Importance and variability of the Northern Omani Dead Zone
Wednesday, 16 December, 2015 - 14:00
Dr Bastien Queste
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