British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series
Talks sponsored by the Polar Oceans programme at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) – and usually taking place at BAS on Madingley Road.
Visitors are welcome to attend our seminars, but if you are coming from outside, you MUST contact the talk organiser in advance, so we can notify the reception.
Contact: Dr Andrew Meijers ; Dr Alexander Brearley ; Dr Dave Munday ; Dr Peter Davis ; Caroline Holmes ; Dr Emma Boland ; Louis Couston ; Dr. Shenjie Zhou ; Dr Irena Vankova ; Dr Michael Haigh ; Dr Birgit Rogalla ; Dr Yohei Takano ; Dr Nicolas Dettling ; Katherine Turner
3 upcoming talks View 345 archived talks
Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Christina Schmidt (BAS): Antarctic Bottom Water formation and its dynamics in a changing climate
Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Yavor Kostov
Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Andrew Styles
Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Helen Shea
Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Giangiacomo Navarra
Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Laura Taylor
Modulation of the North Atlantic Carbon Sink in a Warming World (Yohei Takano))
Heterogeneity and seasonal cycle of eddy-sea ice interactions (Josue Martinez)
The Effects of Subglacial Discharge on Ice-Shelf Melt Patterns and Ice-Sheet Response - Franka Jesse
Data-driven ocean modellingΒ Β
Topography-mediated Transport of Warm Deep Water across the Continental Shelf Slope, East Antarctica
Assessment of oscillation feature in sub-shelf melting from idealized coupled ice sheet ocean models
The impact of sea-ice drift and ocean circulation on dispersal of toothfish eggs and juveniles in the Ross Gyre and Amundsen Sea
An AUV underneath the βDoomsday glacierβ: Revealing pathways and modification of warm water flowing beneath Thwaites ice shelf, West Antarctica
Fine-scale ocean processes in the basal melting of Antarctic ice shelves
SubZero: Floe-Resolving Sea Ice Model
The impact of lee waves on the Southern Ocean circulation and its response to winds
Seasonal prediction and predictability of regional Antarctic sea ice
Melting and mixing at the submarine termini of tidewater glaciers
Observing Iceberg Melt in a Greenland Fjord
Arctic Freshwater Storage and Export in CMIP6 Models
Ice melt driven by the ocean - Two process studies on the physics of ice-ocean interactions based on observations from NE Greenland and the central Arctic Ocean
IkaaΔ‘vik Sikukun: Bridging the Scientific and Indigenous Communities to Study Sea Ice Change in Arctic Alaska
Influences of Melt Water from Sea Ice/Ice Shelf in Polar Oceans
ROSETTA-Ice: a new framework for understanding the Ross Ice Shelf
The Weddell Polynya: when will it come back?
Ice streams: fantastic beasts and how to model them
A 60 Year International History of Antarctic Subglacial Lake Exploration
Random movement of mesoscale eddies in the global ocean
Effect of ocean variability on the Greenland Ice Sheet in the 20th and 21st centuries
Getting Under Europaβs Skin
The biogeochemical fingerprint of melting ice
Sea Ice-Ocean Feedbacks in the Antarctic Shelf Seas
Northern Antarctic Peninsula: a marine climate hotspot of rapid changes on ecosystems and ocean dynamics
Re-thinking controls on the East Australian Current's eddy shedding and mean poleward extent
Sea level rise and the implications for coastal flooding
Linking Glacial-Interglacial States to Multiple Equilibria of Climate
Simulating Southern Ocean, sea ice, and ice shelf interactions: model intercomparison and future projections
Seismic Imaging of EddyβDominated WarmβWater Transport Across the Bellingshausen Sea
Rates and Mechanisms of turbulent mixing in the west Antarctic.
Wintertime Fjord-Shelf Interaction and Ice Sheet Melting in Southeast Greenland
Moving-mesh finite element modeling of ocean circulation near ice shelf grounding lines
Antarctic sea-ice control on glacial and modern deep-ocean circulation and carbon storage
Polar Oceans PhD Student talks
Dynamics of heat transfer and exchanges across the Antarctic Slope Front
Processes controlling the flux of Circumpolar Deep Water onto Antarctic Shelves.
Pathways of boundary mixing in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current revealed by a tracer release experiment.
Understanding (some of) the Arctic Ocean: The Pacific Inflow via the Bering Strait - change, implications and using GRACE data to solve the 60-yr old riddle of what drives it.
Oceanography to fish population genetics: multidisciplinary studies with numerical models
Rapid laundering of deep-ocean waters in an abyssal boundary current
The ice-covered Ross Gyre: variability and drivers
Decadal oceanic variability drives ice sheet retreat in the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica
Changes in the Export of Weddell Sea Deep Water
Surface roughness: a key to understanding Arctic sea ice from micro to macro scales
Challenges in Understanding Decadal Trends and Variability of Oceanic Dissolved Oxygen: Perspectives from MPI-ESM's Large Ensemble Simulations
Glaciers, icebergs and silicon: Preliminary findings from ICY-LAB research expeditions to SW Greenland
Links between Southern Ocean dynamics and Antarctic ice melt
Anthropogenic carbon estimates in the oceanic carbon cycle
Variability of the Antarctic slope current system in the northwestern Weddell Sea
The response of ice sheets to climate variability
Thermodynamic balance at ice-ocean interface in theory, models and maybe real life
Measuring pH variability using an experimental sensor on an underwater glider
Ice-ocean interaction at the Totten Glacier
The bottom-intensification of mixing causes large, almost cancelling, abyssal upwelling and downwelling
Southern Ocean coccolithophore biogeography β controlling factors and implications for global biogeochemical cycles
Examining mechanisms for submesoscale eddy generation using observations in the North Atlantic
Seasonal changes in Circumpolar Deep Water in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica, using seal-borne tags
ECCO version 4: an ocean data analysis and parameter estimation framework
Observations of turbulent dissipation in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica
The Southern Ocean in climate models
Making your work ODA-able: refocussing science for official development assistance
Sources and sinks of bioactive trace metals across the western Antarctic Peninsula shelf
Ice ice baby, under pressure: Ice-ocean interactions in and around ice shelves
Submesoscale instabilities at ocean fronts
The transient response of ice-shelf melting to ocean change
Detection of climate and environmental change in the big data era
Mirabilite and salinity dynamics in sea ice brines
Wake effects in the ocean - from dolphins to CTDs via western boundary currents
When ice meets ocean: meltwater plumes from the murky depths
Mixing and phytoplankton dynamics in Antarctica's coastal seas
Controls on turbulent mixing on the West Antarctic Peninsula shelf
The two-timescale response of Antarctic ocean and sea-ice cover to wind changes: a follow-up
Momentum budget in the Arctic: Atmosphere - Ice - Ocean
How unsteady winds can fuel phytoplankton blooms at fronts in the upper ocean
New thoughts about authigenic carbonate
Winter is coming. What happens to sea ice anomalies?
The Sensitivity of Antarctic Bottom Water to Changing Surface Buoyancy Fluxes.
Polar Upper Ocean Dynamics: Waves, Eddies, Turbulence, Spectra, Modelling
Air-sea exchange variability and its atmosphere/ocean model resolution-dependence in HadGEM3.
Mixing at the fringes of a rapidly melting Antarctic ice shelf
Glacier Retreat and the Oceans: A view from Patagonia
Variability of eddy-mean flow interactions in atmospheric storm tracks and an application to the ACC.
The Influence of Southern Ocean Winds on the North Atlantic Carbon Sink
Transport barriers, ocean adjustment and a new perspective on the surface Gulf Stream
The role of plate tectonics in controlling paleo climate and ocean circulation
Air-sea interactions and the thermohaline circulation
What governs the propagation speed of SST Anomalies?
Wave-turbulence interaction in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
Modelling Submesoscale Dynamics: A new parameterization for symmetric instability
Early results from the SMILES project - observations and models
The dynamical influence of ocean eddy fluxes
Sensitivity of the Antarctic sea ice and trends in ocean models
Intense nutrient upwelling and PV mixing in oceanic anti-cyclones caused by submesoscale instabilities
Competition between Atlantic and Antarctic overturning and the glacial-interglacial CO2 problem
Novel Methods for Determining the Evolution of Turbulence in the Surface Boundary Layer
Causes and effects of recent changes in Antarctic sea-ice transport
Water-column nutrient fluxes along the continental margin of the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone
A conceptual model of ocean heat uptake under climate change
Subtropical icebergs, glacial lakes, and Heinrich Events: How did meltwater trigger past abrupt climate change?
Modelling cross-shelf heat transport along the West Antarctic Peninsula
The Impact of Glacio-Mediated Sea Level Changes on the Tides in the Past and Future
Multi-parameter observations from coastal waters to the deepest trenches: challenges studying the carbon system with optode technology
Vorticity Balance of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in Drake Passage
Investigating changes to phytoplankton patterns in the Southern Ocean using the evaluative satellite product Zeu, validated by instrumented southern elephant seals.
A microscale view of mixing and overturning across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Overturning ideas: Using the mean state of the ocean to understand its role in transient climate change
A regime diagram for ocean geostrophic turbulence
Antarctic Bottom Water in CMIP5 models: characteristics, formation, evolution
Using simple process models to examine Arctic Ocean dynamics under a changing climate
Sensitivity of Dense Shelf Water formation to ice shelf melting -- a modelling study
Rapid sea-level rise in the Antarctic Shelf Sea in response to increased glacial discharge
Diagnosing diapycnal mixing in Drake Passage using numerical models and results from the DIMES experiment
The imprint of Southern Ocean overturning on seasonal water mass variability in Drake Passage and the Southern Ocean
Southern Ocean phytoplankton: mapping iron stressed communities from space and strong responses to volcanic ash supply
Water pathways in the Southern Ocean from Lagrangian particles
Two puzzles posed by the Zapiola anticyclone
Bathymetric controls on deep water flow and modification on the western Antarctic Peninsula shelf, as measured by ocean gliders
Atmospheric & Oceanic Applications of Eulerian and Lagrangian Transport Modelling
Mesoscale variability in the Weddell Sea:Β gliders, drifters and models
Conceptual models of ocean heat and carbon uptake
Upper water variability in the subpolar North Atlantic
Fronts and frontogenesis: a generalised model
A close up on two aspects of LSW formation
Toward the prediction of Arctic sea ice under global warming : Stochastic dynamical system approach
Enhanced turbulent mixing driven by wind shear alignment in the ocean
Small-scale thermodynamic and dynamic studies using autonomous drifting ice buoys and satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data
Sea ice and the ocean mixed layer over the Antarctic continental shelf
The next generation of UK Earth System Models: The UKESM project
Ozone forcing of the coupled climate in the Southern Hemisphere
Understanding global patterns of mesoscale eddy properties and diffusivities
Vigorous ice shelf-ocean interactions: zooming in on the Pine Island case
Testing eddy compensation and eddy saturation in the Southern Ocean
Air-Sea fluxes and the Atlantic Overturning Circulation
Tropical Atlantic Ocean Impacts on Antarctic Peninsula Area Climate
Modeling Land-Ice Retreat, Ice-Ocean Interactions and Sea-Level Rise in the Community Earth System Model
Climate effects of ocean overturning on heat content anomalies and atmospheric CO2
Transient responses of the Southern Ocean to climate change
Ocean heat uptake, the stratification of the Southern Ocean, and the ACC
The Weddell Gyre: Freshwater and carbon budgets and exports to the global ocean abyss
A video-plankton and microstructure profiler for the exploration of in situ connections between zooplankton and turbulence
Air-Sea Interaction in the Southern Ocean: New Results from the SOFS Air-Sea Flux Mooring
RAPID-MOC 26N: a Heat budget for the North Atlantic and eddy impacts on the Florida Current
New approaches to understanding marine climate-carbon cycle feedbacks
Links between ice loss, stratification and ocean heat content in the Rothera time series (RaTS)
Southern Ocean overturning under past and future climate change
The East Greenland Boundary Current System South of Denmark Strait
Water mass transformations and air-sea exchange in the Barents Sea
Variability of Circumpolar Deep Water transport onto the Amundsen Sea shelf
Dense water cascading off the continental shelf - overview and recent modelling results
Anisotropic eddy transport in models and observations
Ice edge to island blooms: carbon cycling in the Southern Ocean
Continental Shelf and Slope Variability in the Southeast Weddell Sea
The influence of tides on melting and freezing beneath Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, and Antarctic Bottom Water production
Turbulence profiling beneath sea ice in McMurdo Sound with particular attention to topographic and cryographic effects
Variability and trends of drifter pathways near the Antarctic Peninsula and potential ecological impacts
Southern Ocean thermocline ventilation
Estimating ocean circulation and mixing: A contourwise view
Changes in the outflow of dense water from the Weddell Sea into the Atlantic overturning circulation
How fast do ice shelves melt?
Tropical Western Pacific Currents and the Origin of Intraseasonal Variability Below the Thermocline
On formation of multiple zonal jets in the ocean
Recent shelf-slope studies in the Arctic Ocean: observations and modeling
Animal-borne sensors and the Global Ocean Observing System
Characterisation of zooplankton vertical migration in two high Arctic fjords using moored ADCPs
Spin-up of Southern Hemisphere subpolar gyres in a warming climate
Regional modelling of ocean processes in the Bellingshausen Sea
Numerical simulation of the Filchner overflow
The effect of tides on dense water formation in Arctic shelf seas
Sailors in the southern oceans: logbooks and climatic research
Variability of Southern Ocean mode and intermediate waters during the late 20th and early 21st centuries: The view from Drake Passage
The risk of an abrupt climate change: probabilities from a deterministic model using emulators
Back to basics: Trace metal evidence for a more alkaline glacial ocean
Monitoring the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
Observing mean Ekman currents in Drake Passage
Glacial Cycles and Carbon Dioxide: A conceptual model
Transient simulations of the Little Ice Age and beyond with a global reduced complexity model
The role of eddies in the Southern Ocean temperature response to the Southern Annular Mode
Unstructured meshes and adaptivity for 3D multi-scale ocean modelling
High resolution coupled ocean-atmosphere modelling
Mechanisms of ocean heat uptake in coupled climate models
Climate change and the polar ice sheets
Probabilistic weather forecasting: scientific research and commercial application
The Atlantic; strong but subservient in the meridional overturning circulation
Physical controls on the location and initiation of a regular phytoplankton bloom north of the Crozet Plateau
Diapycnal mixing in Drake Passage
Dissolved Oxygen and Argon in some areas of the Southern Ocean, a proxy for the estimation of Marine Productivity
Ocean mixing and the Meridional Overturning Circulation: the Southern Ocean crossroads
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Christina Schmidt.
Wednesday 15 April 2026, 13:00-14:00