CV
Education
- Doctoral student in Oceanography, est. 2027
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Germany
Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI), Germany- Thesis: Towards Realistically Modelling Southern Ocean Convection
- Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alexander Haumann
- Master of Science in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, 2024
University of Alberta, Canada- Thesis: The Effects of Tides and Submesoscale Mixed Layer Eddies on Deep Convection in the Labrador Sea: Simulations at Resolutions Consistent with Coupled Climate Models
- Supervisor: Dr. Paul Myers
- Bachelor of Engineering in Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering, 2020
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada- Equivalent requirements for a Minor in Mathematics completed in 2021
Awards and honours
- $1,500 Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies Travel Award, 2024
- $500 Graduate Students’ Association Academic Travel Grant, 2024
- $1,500 Roy Dean Hibbs Memorial Travel Award, 2023
- $17,500 Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master’s (CGS M), 2023
- $7,100 Walter H Johns Graduate Fellowship, 2023
- $6,000 Mitacs Globalink Research Award, 2019
- $2,800 Professor Bill Milne Memorial Scholarship, 2017
Significant works
- Brown, R. (2024). The Effects of Tides and Submesoscale Mixed Layer Eddies on Deep Convection in the Labrador Sea: Simulations at Resolutions Consistent with Coupled Climate Models [Master’s thesis]. University of Alberta Education and Research Archive, 1–88.
- Brown, R., & Myers, P. G. (2024, February 18–23). Mixing Processes in the Labrador Sea: Simulations at Resolutions Consistent with Coupled Climate Models [Conference presentation]. The Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024, New Orleans, LA, USA.
- Manzur Tirado, A. M., Brown, R., & Valdez Banda, O. A. (2019). Risk and safety management of autonomous systems: a literature review and initial proposals for the maritime industry. Aalto University publication series SCIENCE + TECHNOLOGY 1/2019, 1-66.
Relevant experience
- Sep 2024–: Researcher
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Germany
Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI), Germany- Conducting research on shallow open-ocean convection in the Southern Ocean
- Performing high-resolution, non-hydrostatic simulations using the MITgcm model
- Executing computations on high-performance computing systems at LMU and AWI
- Jul 2022–Jun 2024: Graduate research assistant fellowship
University of Alberta, Canada- Identified improvements to ocean model biases by using tides and mixed layer eddies to reduce mixed layer depths during deep convection in the Labrador Sea
- Conducted tidal analyses of a high-resolution NEMO model for Fisheries and Oceans Canada
- Ran computations on Compute Canada supercomputers
- Analysed data with Python and MATLAB
- Oct 2021–Feb 2022: Ocean engineer
Oceans Limited, Canada- Programmed vessel motions analysis software using MATLAB and C++
- Researched new methods of wave spectra prediction using machine learning (Python and Keras)
- Performed outfitting and CAD modelling of weather buoys
- Jan 2019–Apr 2019: Research assistant in maritime safety engineering
Aalto University, Finland- Supported by Mitacs Globalink Research Award
- Co-authored report on safety management of autonomous maritime systems
- Performed extensive literature review and analyses
- May 2018–Aug 2018: Research assistant in human factors engineering
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada- Researched methods for managing sea ice in the offshore industry
- Analysed experimental human-factors data using MATLAB
- Designed scenarios for a maritime simulator
- Contributed to experimental design and an ethics application
Additional experiences and competencies
- Volunteering: Social convener and oceanography representative for the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences graduate students’ society (2022-2023)
- Languages: English (native), French (intermediate), German (can order a coffee)
- Memberships: The Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS); The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME); The European Geosciences Union (EGU)
Tech skills
I always feel awkward writing what I think I’m good at. I do however have demonstrable experience with the following:
- Python and MATLAB, including small to large datasets from model, climatological (e.g., WOA), and observational (e.g., Argo) sources
- Modelling skills, i.e.,
- Setting up and running models on HPCs and supercomputers
- Numerical methods (relevant coursework at UAlberta: Advanced Atmosphere-Ocean-Climate Modelling)
- Low-abstraction languages (Fortran and a bit of C) and parallelization (MPI) (relevant one-week workshop: Parallel programming with MPI and OpenMP)
- Git! e.g., my GitHub