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Maritime Heritage Science Facility

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H2020 -CMMI – MaRITeC-X - Marine and Maritime Research, Innovation, Technology Centre of Excellence

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Managing shelf sea carbon cycles and greenhouse gas release from physical disturbance of the seafloor (C-floor)

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Martin Solan

Professor of Marine Ecology
Research interests
  • Biodiversity ecosystem function bioturbation benthic ecology
Connect with Martin

Email: M.Solan@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Simon Cox

Head of Department
Research interests
  • My research focusses on computational tools, technologies and platforms and how they enable i…
  • High Performance and novel Computing SystemsCloud Computing and commercial distributed comput…
Connect with Simon

Email: S.J.Cox@soton.ac.uk

Professor Jasmin Godbold

Professor
Research interests
  • Changes in seafloor biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
  • Effect of human activities and environmental change on species-environment interactions 
  • Trait-expression in benthic invertebrates and how this is affected by climate change and pres…
Connect with Jasmin

Email: J.A.Godbold@soton.ac.uk

Professor Blair Thornton

Professor of Marine Autonomy
Research interests
  • seafloor 3D visual reconstruction: development of deep-sea imaging hardware and processing pi…
  • automated interpretation of data: development of AI methods for rapid scalable interpretation…
  • robotics: development of low-cost, long endurance seafloor imaging floats and highly intellig…
Connect with Blair

Email: B.Thornton@soton.ac.uk

Professor Susan Gourvenec FREng, FICE, FIEAust, PhD, BEng

Professor of Offshore Geotechnical Engineering
Connect with Susan

Email: Susan.Gourvenec@southampton.ac.uk

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NextGen Anchor Design: Harnessing the potential of probabilistic surrogates and seabed evolution modelling

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ROBOCONE: Intelligent characterisation of sub-surface properties

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Dave White PhD (Cantab), FREng, FICE, FTSE, FRINA, FIEAust

Professor of Infrastructure Geotechnics
Research interests
  • Offshore renewable energy - wind, tidal and wave
  • Geotechnical modelling of foundations, anchoring systems and subsea cables
  • Site characterisation - in situ and laboratory testing
Connect with Dave

Email: david.white@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Susan Gourvenec FREng, FICE, FIEAust, PhD, BEng

Professor of Offshore Geotechnical Engineering
Connect with Susan

Email: Susan.Gourvenec@southampton.ac.uk

Dr Benjamin Cerfontaine

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • Offshore geotechnics for renewable energy - wind, tidal and wave
  • Numerical and physical modelling of infrastructure
  • Constitutive modelling of geomaterials for cyclic loading
Connect with Benjamin

Email: B.Cerfontaine@soton.ac.uk

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Station-keeping Solutions To Enable Floating Offshore Renewable Energy

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Supergen ORE Hub (Offshore Renewable Energy) - Phase 2

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TAILWIND: susTainable stAtionkeepIng systems for fLoating WIND

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Dave White PhD (Cantab), FREng, FICE, FTSE, FRINA, FIEAust

Professor of Infrastructure Geotechnics
Research interests
  • Offshore renewable energy - wind, tidal and wave
  • Geotechnical modelling of foundations, anchoring systems and subsea cables
  • Site characterisation - in situ and laboratory testing
Connect with Dave

Email: david.white@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Susan Gourvenec FREng, FICE, FIEAust, PhD, BEng

Professor of Offshore Geotechnical Engineering
Connect with Susan

Email: Susan.Gourvenec@southampton.ac.uk

Dr Benjamin Cerfontaine

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • Offshore geotechnics for renewable energy - wind, tidal and wave
  • Numerical and physical modelling of infrastructure
  • Constitutive modelling of geomaterials for cyclic loading
Connect with Benjamin

Email: B.Cerfontaine@soton.ac.uk

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Toward enabling sustainable expansion of offshore wind while protecting marine benthic biodiversity and functioning (BEcoWIND)

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Martin Solan

Professor of Marine Ecology
Research interests
  • Biodiversity ecosystem function bioturbation benthic ecology
Connect with Martin

Email: M.Solan@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Paul White

Professor of Statistical Signal Processing
Research interests
  • Signal processing
  • Underwater acoustics and bioacoustics (the way animals, especially marine mammals, use sound)
  • The processing of calls of marine mammals
Connect with Paul

Email: P.R.White@soton.ac.uk

Professor Justin Dix

Professor of Marine Geology & Geophysics
Connect with Justin

Email: J.K.Dix@soton.ac.uk

Professor Chris Hauton PhD, FRSB, FMBA

Head of School
Research interests
  • Hauton has worked extensively with colleagues in India and Bangladesh since 2015 and has deve…
  • Research has also included quantifying the potential toxic risk of deep sea mining of mineral…
  • Other activity
Connect with Chris

Email: C.Hauton@soton.ac.uk

Professor Paul Kemp

Professor of Ecological Engineering
Connect with Paul

Email: P.Kemp@soton.ac.uk

Professor Jasmin Godbold

Professor
Research interests
  • Changes in seafloor biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
  • Effect of human activities and environmental change on species-environment interactions 
  • Trait-expression in benthic invertebrates and how this is affected by climate change and pres…
Connect with Jasmin

Email: J.A.Godbold@soton.ac.uk

Dr George Callender

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • HV Cable Systems
  • FEA Simulations
  • Partial Discharge
Connect with George

Email: G.M.Callender@soton.ac.uk

Professor Blair Thornton

Professor of Marine Autonomy
Research interests
  • seafloor 3D visual reconstruction: development of deep-sea imaging hardware and processing pi…
  • automated interpretation of data: development of AI methods for rapid scalable interpretation…
  • robotics: development of low-cost, long endurance seafloor imaging floats and highly intellig…
Connect with Blair

Email: B.Thornton@soton.ac.uk

Professor Susan Gourvenec FREng, FICE, FIEAust, PhD, BEng

Professor of Offshore Geotechnical Engineering
Connect with Susan

Email: Susan.Gourvenec@southampton.ac.uk

Professor Dave White PhD (Cantab), FREng, FICE, FTSE, FRINA, FIEAust

Professor of Infrastructure Geotechnics
Research interests
  • Offshore renewable energy - wind, tidal and wave
  • Geotechnical modelling of foundations, anchoring systems and subsea cables
  • Site characterisation - in situ and laboratory testing
Connect with Dave

Email: david.white@soton.ac.uk

Dr Martina Stiasny BSc, MSc

Lecturer
Connect with Martina

Email: M.H.Stiasny@soton.ac.uk

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Development of an integrated anchor model via industry engagement