I am a PhD candidate at the National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, and the British Antarctic Survey. I also have previous professional software development experience.
My current research interests are in polar and climate science using geochemical tracers in marine sediments. I’m particularly interested in what the provenance of marine sediments can tell us about past climate.
I’m also a self-confessed Pythonista: whenever I’ve come across existing spreadsheet-based or manual processes in my research, I’ve replaced them with rigorous and reproducible code, from processing mass spectrometer data to using machine learning algorithms to reproducibly cluster isotopic data. I’m a big fan of the open source ecosystem, and I’ve contributed to the excellent TACtool and pyleoclim projects.
Data visualisation, visual communication, and design are a passion of mine, with a few competitions and prizes to my name. I’m quite nerdy about typography too…
When I’m not working, you’ll find me being a dad, outside, or both: running, cycling (road and gravel), trekking, wild swimming, sailing, SUP, kayaking, or climbing.
2020–Present
National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton
British Antarctic Survey
Project: “West Antarctica in warmer and warming worlds: insights from ice-rafted debris” with Steve Bohaty, Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, Paul Wilson, and Gavin Foster.
2020
National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton
“QPID: A new palaeoclimate database, and an exploration of ocean remineralisation depth” with Gavin Foster
2014
Van Mildert College, University of Durham
Dissertation: “The geology of Berwick-upon-Tweed and Scremerston, Northumberland” with Jonathan Imber
2023
Data scientist (placement)
Automated Feature Extraction R&D team
Developed a new deep learning model using semantic image segmentation to turn aerial imagery into maps, using Python packages keras, sci-kit learn, and geopandas.
2016–2019
Web developer, responsible for ccleaner.com.
2015–2016
Developer, created and maintained internal tools.