Wednesday 23rd & Thursday 24th October 2013 Workshop Programme The workshop will take place in the Gallery Room at The Foresight Conference Centre http://www.foresightcentre.co.uk/Pages/Article.aspx?id=216. Contributed talks will be 15 minutes in length and Keynote speakers will be given 20 minutes 13.00 LUNCH and POSTER VIEWING 13.50 Welcome to the workshop - Andrew Willmott Theme 1 - Coastal trapped waves Session chair: Andrew Willmott 14.00 Professor Ted Johnson (UCL) Topographic transformation of coastal-trapped : waves meanders and eddies (Keynote speaker) 14.20 Professor Vladimir Zeitlin (Univ. P and M Curie) On resonant excitation of trapped coastal waves by free inertia-gravity waves 14.35 Professor Chris Hughes (NOC) A deep-ocean perspective on the special nature of the continental slope Theme 3 - Shelf break processes including cascading Session chair: Ric Williams 14.55 Professor John Simpson (Bangor) Title to be confirmed (Keynote speaker) 15.15 Professor Toby Sherwin (SAMS) Sub-inertial motions in the Faroe-Shetland Channel, 1987 to 2013 15.30 BREAK and POSTER VIEWING 16.00 Dr Rob Hall (UEA) Internal wave and mixing processes along continental shelf slopes 16.15 Professor Adrian New (NOC) Internal waves at the Mascarene Plateau in the Indian Ocean 1 16.30 Dr Dave Bowers On the formation of tide-produced seiches and (Bangor) double high waters in coastal seas 16.45 Professor Andrew Willmott (Keele and NOC) Simple models for wind and buoyancy forced Arctic Ocean circulation 17.00 Dr Miguel M Maqueda (NOC) Dynamics of the opening of a wind-driven coastal polynya 17.15 Professor Georgy Shapiro (Plymouth) Dense water cascades in the World Ocean linking the shelf and deep sea (Keynote speaker) 17.35 Session closes 19.00 Drinks reception in The Victoria Gallery, University of Liverpool, followed by the workshop dinner at 19.45 Theme 3 posters Dr Jeff Polton (NOC) Overturning across the North West European shelf break Asu Fubara (Liverpool) Distribution of slope-confined gully systems in the mixed clastic-carbonate Rankin Platform: implications for shelf-parallel morphodynamic diversity Dr Tahmeena Aslam (UEA) Shelf break processes including cascading Dr Neil Mitchell Internal waves and modern and ancient hiatuses in pelagic caps of Pacific guyots and seamounts (Manchester) Thursday 24th October Theme 2 - Dynamics of shelf seas with reference to residual circulation and sand bank growth Session chair: Kevin Horsburgh 09.00 Professor Alejandro Souza (NOC) ROFIs; 20 years from PROFILE what we have learnt since (Keynote speaker) 09.20 Professor Julian Hunt (UCL) Modelling wind waves and tsunamis at coastlines 09.35 Dr Judith Wolf (NOC) Tides in the NE Atlantic and consequences for tidal energy on the NW European Shelf 2 09.50 Dr M. Reza Hashemi (Bangor) Development of a coupled wave tide and sediment model of the UK shelf seas using ROMS 10.05 Dr Matt Lewis (Bangor) Inter-annual variability off sand banks and waves: Observations from Nash and Helwick Bank (UK) 10.20 BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING 10.50 Dr Jeff Polton (NOC) Tidally induced mean flow over bathymetric features –A steady state Huthnance legacy 11.05 Dr Tom Rippeth (Bangor) Enhanced turbulent mixing driven by wind shear alignment In seasonally stratified shelf seas Theme 2 posters Mirco Scharfe (AWI) Multi-decadal changes in advection and its relationship to the Marine ecosystem of Helgoland Island (German Bight, North Sea) Dr Alex Arnold Presenter: Dr Huw Lewis (Met Office) The high resolution UK Coupled Model: plans and progress Dr Joanne Hopkins (NOC) Storms modify baroclinic energy flux in the Celtic Sea Theme 4 - Science into policy and science leadership Session chair: Judith Wolf 11.25 Dr Caron Montgomery (Defra) Talk on MSFD and UKMMAS (Keynote speaker) 11.45 Professor Markus Quante (Inst. of Coastal Res) The international North Sea Region Climate Change Assessment (NOSCCA) – an analysis of the scientific legitimate knowledge for science and decision making 12.00 Dr Kevin Horsburgh (NOC) Reflections on the Newton Institute workshop “Mathematics, probability and climate” 12.15 Professor John Huthnance Closing Remarks 12:30 Workshop closes 3