A workshop celebrating the wide contributions that John has made in advancing
our understanding of the dynamics of shelf seas and their interaction with the
ocean interior circulation
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)
The Slope current, JEBAR and the Ekman drain
(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
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16.15
Professor Adrian New
(NOC)
Internal waves at the Mascarene Plateau in the
Indian Ocean
16.30
Dr Dave Bowers
(Bangor)
On the formation of tide-produced seiches and
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)
Carl Spingys
(Liverpool)
Mean and eddy transport at the Celtic Sea Shelf Break
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
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09.35
Dr Judith Wolf
Head of Site, Liverpool
(NOC)
Tides in the NE Atlantic and consequences for
tidal energy on the NW European Shelf
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
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