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Managing shelf sea carbon cycles and greenhouse gas release from physical disturbance of the seafloor (C-floor)

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Martin Solan

Professor of Marine Ecology
Research interests
  • Biodiversity ecosystem function bioturbation benthic ecology
Connect with Martin

Email: M.Solan@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Simon Cox

Head of Department
Research interests
  • My research focusses on computational tools, technologies and platforms and how they enable interdisciplinary problems to be solved in engineering and science.His team in the Computational Engineering and Design Group is applying and developing high performance and cloud computing in a variety of collaborative interdisciplinary computational science and engineering projects. These include:
  • High Performance and novel Computing SystemsCloud Computing and commercial distributed computing - which led to a spin out companyApplied computational algorithms Computational electromagnetics– which led to the formation of a spin-off company.New algorithms such as meshless methods and fast solvers.Data Management Simon is also Director of the Microsoft Institute for High Performance computing where he demonstrates why, where and how current and future Microsoft tools and technologies can be exploited to enable engineering and scientific research to deliver faster, cheaper and better results.
Connect with Simon

Email: S.J.Cox@soton.ac.uk

Professor Jasmin Godbold

Professor
Research interests
  • Changes in seafloor biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
  • Effect of human activities and environmental change on species-environment interactions 
  • Trait-expression in benthic invertebrates
Connect with Jasmin

Email: J.A.Godbold@soton.ac.uk

Professor Blair Thornton

Professor of Marine Autonomy
Research interests
  • seafloor 3D visual reconstruction: development of deep-sea imaging hardware and processing pipelines for calibration, localisation and 3D mapping of the seafloor with full-field uncertainty characterisation 
  • automated interpretation of data: development of AI methods for rapid scalable interpretation of seafloor imagery
  • robotics: development of low-cost, long endurance seafloor imaging floats and highly intelligent and manoeuvrable robotic imaging platform for visual survey of complex environments
Connect with Blair

Email: B.Thornton@soton.ac.uk

Professor Susan Gourvenec FREng, FICE, FIEAust, PhD, BEng

Deputy Director SMMI
Connect with Susan

Email: Susan.Gourvenec@southampton.ac.uk

Research outputs