NEWS

2015

Mike Wong successfully defended his PhD viva on the 5th of February 2015. His examiners were Dr Gwendal Riviere from LMD-ENS in Paris, and Prof. Peter Jan van Leeuwen from Reading. Mike's PhD is entitled: 'The Energetics of Tropical Cyclone Intensification'. Mike Graduated on the 8th of July 2015. Many thanks to Sue Gray for accepting the co-supervision of the PhD, and to Mike for getting great results, hopefully to be published soon!

Markus Huber, who had been working as part of the INSPECT project, took up an exciting position in Oxford. After conducting new interviews, Antoine Hochet was offered the position for the remainder of the project, which he accepted. He will be joining us in September 2015.

2014

Got promoted. Am now Associate Professor in Physical Oceanography. Finally.

Lenka Novakova got her first first-author paper accepted in the Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. Well done!

Markus Huber started in January 2014 to work with Till Kuhlbrodt, David Ferreira, Jonathan Gregory and mysefl as part of the NERC funded INSPECT project. Welcome Markus!

2013

David Ferreira, who spent 10 years working in John Marshall's group at MIT, was appointed as a new lecturer, increasing dramatically the number of oceanographers in the Department! Welcome David.

I am excited, along my co-investigators Till Kuhlbrodt, David Ferreira and Jonathan Gregory to have been awarded a NERC standard grant on a project called INSPECT: Improving simple climate models through a traceable and process-based analysis of ocean heat uptake in AOGCMs and observations. Interviews led us to offer the associated postdoctoral research position to Markus Huber, to join us early 2014.