My name is Rowan, and I am an engineer-in-recovery with a fascination with the polar oceans. I recently started a PhD studying Southern Ocean convection using high-resolution non-hydrostatic modelling (as part of the VERTEXSO project) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Alexander Haumann at LMU Munich and the Alfred Wegener Institute. I recently finished my MSc in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta. My background is in engineering, and I have a BEng in Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering from Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Interests

• Numerical modelling, including general circulation models and large eddy simulation
• Submesoscale (and smaller) fluid dynamics, especially ocean convection
• Polar oceanography and sea ice
• History and literature around oceanography and polar exploration, e.g.,
  • The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
  • South by Ernest Shackleton
  • At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft

In my MSc research, my focus is/was mixing in the Labrador Sea using the NEMO ocean model under the supervision of Dr. Paul Myers. I am particularly interested in the effects of two processes on deep convection: tidal forcing and the Fox-Kemper parameterization for submesoscale mixed layer eddies (SMLEs).