Use your skills in physics, mathematics or computational science to better understand our climate system.

The circulation of the ocean around Antarctica is highly sensitive to climate change. Waters in critical regions are experiencing high warming rates, in recent years we have seen unprecedented record lows in sea ice extent, and the overturning circulation shows signs of warming and slowdown. This project will use a combination of state-of-the-art numerical models, theory and observations to deepen our understanding of the Antarctic margins circulation and its climatic relevance in the context of climate change.

The ocean is a sea of internal gravity waves. Similar to the gravity waves that propagate over the ocean surface and break along our coastlines, internal waves propagate great distances through the ocean interior. These waves are generated at the ocean surface and the seafloor by a variety of mechanisms. As the...

The Southern Ocean is a key contributor to global climate. It regulates the absorption of CO2 into the ocean, plays a key role in ocean heat uptake and most likely influenced abrupt climate variability in the past. However, the processes that limit Southern Ocean circulation occur at very fine scales,...

The Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are rapidly losing mass, contributing to global mean sea level rise. We study the melting of ice sheets from the ocean below using laboratory and numerical models to understand the small-scale processes that drive melt.

The melting of Antarctica’s marine-terminating ice sheets is controlled by heat delivered from the Southern Ocean to the Antarctic margins, and is the largest uncertainty in future sea level rise. This project will use a combination of ocean modelling, theory and observations to predict future Antarctic melt rate.