About me
Since late 2021, I work as a data scientist at Voice of the Ocean foundation (VOTO). I am responsible for processing, correcting, standardising and distributing scientific data from our fleet of autonomous platforms. In my day-to-day work, I build and monitor pipelines for processing near real time data, maintain servers and create websites for viewing/interrogating data. I also work with other data managers at organisations like SMHI, EMODnet and IOOS/NOAAto standardise and efficiently distribute data.
I work a lot with ERDDAP, a data broker server that makes it much easier to share well standardised oceanographic data. I manage the VOTO ERDDAP where all our data are hosted. I have co-organised and presented several in person and online webinars teaching data users and admins how to best use ERDDAP for distributing oceanographic data.
I am a Pythonista and proponent of free software for science. Several of my projects are available on my github. I have completed collaborative programming projects as part of OceanHackWeek and Google Summer of Code. During my PhD, I led the UEA scientific python group.
Career
2021-present Data scientist/physical oceanographer Voice of the Ocean Foundation
2017- 2021 Postgraduate Researcher University of East Anglia
2013-2017 MSci Geophysics University of Southampton
CV
Publications
2022 Doctoral Thesis. Shelf, shear and staircases: glider observations in the North Atlantic
2020 Glider Observations of the Northwestern Iberian Margin During an Exceptional Summer Upwelling Season
To request a copy of any of my publications that have ended up behind a paywall, please email me. This is completely legal and scientists actively encourage it.
Selected posters and talks
2023 EMODnet jamboree, Brussels
2022 UG2 Seattle
2020 COAS seminar
2017 Marine Autonomy and Techology Showcase
PhD
During 2017-2021 I completed a PhD at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, UK. I work with marine gliders, specifically the integration on Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs) onto gliders to directly measure currents in the ocean.
Data and live location information from this glider, and others in the fleet, is available on the UEA glider website. I rebuilt the website in 2021, based on the original by Bastien Queste.
PhD Supervisory Team
Prof. Karen Heywood, Dr. Rob Hall, Dr. Alex Phillips
Academic background
Integrated Master of Science (MSci) geophysics with study abroad First class, University of Southampton, UK. Included a year studying at Utrecht University, Netherlands under the Erasmus program
Thesis title: Approximating 3D seismic velocities under Sumatra using ambient noise tomography. Supervisor: Dr Nicholas Harmon
Contact me
If you have my phone number, please contact me using Signal.
Various internet presences:
- github
- twitter (no longer used, thanks Elon)
- stack overflow
- Voice of the Ocean team page
- ORCID
- UEA Python presentations
Things I enjoy talking about
With varying levels of competence
- Glider data processing
- Server maintenance
- ERDDAP
- Task automation
- Python
- Standardisation of data processing
- FOSS in the geosciences
- The pros/cons of preprints and open peer review
- Making maps and the relative benefits of various projections
- Perceptually uniform colourmaps
- Learning languages
- Climate breakdown
- Unions and why you should join one
- Heterodox economics
- Rewilding as a method of environmental and social regeneration
- Infosec, cryptography, online security
- Trail cameras for wildlife observation
See also reading list
About this website
Source code is available on my Github. See this article for more info on why I promote open sharing of source code, as well as links to academic websites that do the same.
This website has no trackers, cookies, data collection or visitor logging. I am opposed to online surveillance.