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Southern Ocean Carbon Uptake

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Southern ocean mixing in an earth system context

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Support the development of standardised risk datasets for Pacific Small Island Developing States and their extension to other Small Island States to support the conceptualisation and formulation of projects to address agricultural vulnerability and risk r

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Chris Hill

Professor
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Email: cth@geodata.soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor David Sear

Professor
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Email: D.Sear@soton.ac.uk

Professor Craig Hutton

Director (Supply Chain & Management Science)
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Email: cwh@geodata.soton.ac.uk

Professor Justin Sheffield

Head of School
Research interests
  • Large-scale hydrology and its interactions with climate variability and change.
  • Hydrological extremes, climate change, and hydrological processes from catchment to global sc…
  • The application of fundamental research to natural hazards impacts reduction, including monit…
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Email: Justin.Sheffield@soton.ac.uk

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Synthesising Unprecedented Coastal Conditions: Extreme Storm Surges (SUCCESS)

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Teleconnected SARgassum risks across the Atlantic: building capacity for TRansformational Adaptation in the Caribbean and West Africa

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Emma Tompkins PhD

Professor of Geography, Environment & Development
Research interests
  • How households and businesses are adapting to climate and weather hazards
  • Monitoring real-time adaptation to hydro-meteorological/climate hazards,  (including compound…
  • Methods to assess the effectiveness of climate adaptations
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Email: E.L.Tompkins@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Dr Vicky Dominguez Almela

Lecturer
Research interests
  • My work includes the use of individual-based models (IBMs), geographical information systems …
  • I have mainly work with fish in the past, but recently I have been fascinated by the invasion…
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Email: V.Dominguez-Almela@soton.ac.uk

Dr Sien Van Der Plank PhD

Lecturer
Research interests
  • Qualitative and mixed methods to study social-environmental change
  • Risk perceptions and behaviours to hazards
  • Oral history and archival methods to understand past human adaptation
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Email: sien.vanderplank@soton.ac.uk

Professor Jadu Dash

Professor of Remote Sensing
Research interests
  • Satellite derived land surface phenology and its validation with ground data
  • Developing a chlorophyll content based production efficiency model to quantify terrestrial ca…
  • Impact of extreme climatic events on vegetation phenology
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Email: J.DASH@soton.ac.uk

Professor Robert Marsh

Professor of Oceanography & Climate
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Email: R.Marsh@soton.ac.uk

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The Environment of the Arctic: Climate, Ocean and Sea Ice (TEA-COSI)

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Turbulence in Antarctic Circumpolar Current standing meanders

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Sarg_LEGACY

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Emma Tompkins PhD

Professor of Geography, Environment & Development
Research interests
  • How households and businesses are adapting to climate and weather hazards
  • Monitoring real-time adaptation to hydro-meteorological/climate hazards,  (including compound…
  • Methods to assess the effectiveness of climate adaptations
Connect with Emma

Email: E.L.Tompkins@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Robert Marsh

Professor of Oceanography & Climate
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Email: R.Marsh@soton.ac.uk

Professor Jadu Dash

Professor of Remote Sensing
Research interests
  • Satellite derived land surface phenology and its validation with ground data
  • Developing a chlorophyll content based production efficiency model to quantify terrestrial ca…
  • Impact of extreme climatic events on vegetation phenology
Connect with Jadu

Email: J.DASH@soton.ac.uk

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Understanding Pathways to and Impact of a 1.5 degrees rise in Global Temperature

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Philip Goodwin

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • Philip has a number of research interests spanning climate and the carbon cycle:
  • (1) Earth’s coupled physical climate and biogeochemical system;
  • (2) The Anthropocene (including surface warming, sea level rise and ocean acidification);
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Email: P.A.Goodwin@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Robert Nicholls PhD

Professor of Coastal Engineering
Research interests
  • long-term coastal engineering and management
  • the issues of coastal impacts and adaptation to climate change, with an emphasis on sea-level…
  • the assessment of the future of deltaic areas, which are the most threatened coastal setting …
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Email: R.J.Nicholls@soton.ac.uk

Professor Juerg Matter

Professor of Geoengineering & Carbon Management
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Email: J.Matter@southampton.ac.uk

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Wider Impacts of Subpolar North Atlantic variability on the ocean and atmosphere (WISHBONE)