European Way,
Southampton
SO14 3ZH
United Kingdom
Nationality
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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ORCID :
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PhD
Research
Climatology, Meteorology
John is Associate Director for the Digital Ocean at the National Oceanography Centre.
He was previously Head of the Ocean Forecasting Research and Development (OFRD) group at the Met Office and co-chair of the National Partnership for Ocean Prediction (NPOP).
His research areas of expertise are shelf seas modelling for marine and coupled forecasting.
Current activities
Leading the development of the Digital Ocean capabiltiy at the NOC, with a focus on the value chain from collection through analysis and manipulation to the information products and understanding resulting from the use of ocean data
Career background
Prior to taking up the Digital Ocean role at the NOC in March 2021, John had science leadership roles in the Ocean Forecasting Research and Development area from 2007 until 2012, when he became lead of the Ocean Modelling Group, providing ocean model development based on NEMO for applications across the Met Office. He became Head of Ocean Forecasting in 2014.
Prior to taking on management responsibilities John worked as Coastal Ocean Modelling Scientist (July 2003 to May 2007), with responsibilities for preparing developments to the suite of marine models run for the North West European shelf. John implemented, tested and transitioned to operations the ecosystem component of the MRCS North-West Shelf model and had primary responsibility for the research and development, monitoring and maintenance of the ocean shelf ecosystem and sediment short-term forecasting systems.
Prior to his career at the Met Office John worked for the Natural Environmental Research Council at Plymouth Marine Laboratory as a mathematical modeller in a biogeochemistry modelling team with the primary responsibility for implementing marine dynamical models and coupling them to ERSEM.
John was awarded his PhD by published works from Bangor University School of Ocean Sciences in 2016. He previously studied for an MSc in Applied Physical Oceanography (1997/8) at Bangor, where he was awarded the Darbyshire prize. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Marine Environmental Chemistry at the University of Southampton (1991-1994).
External recognition
- Co-chair of the National Partnership for Ocean Prediction
- NOOS Steering Committee member
- EuroGOOS Science Advisory Working Group member
- GodaeOceanView (GOV) Patrons Group member
North Sea
North Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Global
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