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Helen

I'm Helen a PhD Student researching Southern ocean circulations. I use supercomputers to run models of the Southern Ocean to try and better understand the physics of what's happening there! I come from an Earth Sciences background but love the oceans!

The Treacle Ocean

When you think of ocean oceanography you probably think of people diving with corals or boats deploying brightly coloured equipment. I myself am a physical oceanographer and personally don’t get my feet wet very often. So what do I do? Well, I model the ocean using a computer… a big one! The ocean is very complex and understanding the whole ocean to predict how it will respond to changing climate is very difficult. Continue reading →

My Research: Helen Burns

Hi, I'm Helen and here I'm writing to tell you about my research. My work focuses on understanding the behaviour of the Southern Ocean. This ocean around Antarctica is a complex place; no where else in the world can an ocean current circumnavigate the globe, uninterrupted by the continents. The Southern Ocean allows all the worlds other oceans to communicate and this leads to complex physics that we're still trying to understand. Continue reading →