Senior Lecturer, Physical Oceanographer in the Department of Marine Science @MarineOtago, University of Otago @otago
Joined September 2010
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21 Jan 2025
Come and join us @otago! We are hiring a new Lecturer (Biological Oceanography, Marine Ecosystem Modelling or Physical Oceanography). Full-time, permanent position (NZ$90-107k/yr). Applications close 23 Feb 2025. Further details and how to apply here: otago.taleo.net/careersectio…
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Robert Smith retweeted
14 Jan 2025
38 scientists and crew have set sail for Antarctica today aboard NIWA’s RV Tangaroa. They’ll be studying the impacts of climate change on the Ross Sea during the six-week voyage. 🚢❄️
Read the full story here 👉 niwa.co.nz/news/antarctic-vo…
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Robert Smith retweeted
11 Dec 2024
We are looking for a permanent marine biologist, come and work with me at VUW/Te Herenga Waka's school of Biological Sciences: ejye.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/…
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11 Dec 2024
We have a vacancy @otago for a Teaching Fellow to support undergraduate oceanography teaching. This is a permanent, part-time, semester-only position (0.6 FTE/22.5 hours week, $73-84k pro rata/yr) available from 01 Feb 2025. Applications close 12 Jan 2025: otago.taleo.net/careersectio…
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9 Dec 2024
Interested in a PhD @otago? Explore how internal waves cool our oceans & their future under climate change! @niwa_nz-led @MBIEsci project supervised by me, @ErikBehrens_NZ & Craig Stevens. NZ$43k/yr (incl. $33k stipend fees). Apply by Jan 18 2025. Details: tinyurl.com/iwsi2025
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Doing research in Fiordland—a vast territory of mountains, forests, and fiords in southwest New Zealand—takes ingenuity, collaboration, and a really good raincoat.
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Read more in the latest issue of Eos: bit.ly/Eos-Oct2024
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Robert Smith retweeted
22 Oct 2024
Low light exacerbates the effects of marine heatwaves on seaweeds
bit.ly/meps_747_49
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By uniting modern science with time-honored wisdom, the #MoanaProject is paving the way for responsible ocean stewardship and the prosperity of marine environments,
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Read more in the October issue of Eos, out now: bit.ly/Eos-Oct2024
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Honours/Masters or PhD Student Opportunity part of the @OceanRes_UNSW Lab. Fishing for Ocean Data in Sea Country with Marine Rangers of the Tiwi Islands, NT. More details below.
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Robert Smith retweeted
24 Sep 2024
Apply👇🌊 Excited to announce a tenure track position in sea-going physical oceanography @MiamiRosenstiel! We are committed to increasing diversity in the ocean sciences. @BlackinMarSci @BlkinGeoscience @MPOWIR @500QueerSci @GOOSocean
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Earth science in Aotearoa New Zealand 🇳🇿: Long white clouds, deep blue oceans, muddy sediments, and FRED.
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Read more in the October issue of Eos, out now: bit.ly/Eos-Oct2024
ALT A cover of the October 2024 issue of Eos, along with the text: Land of the Long White Cloud and the Deep Blue Sea In October, Eos digs deep int o the rich Earth science in and around Aotearoa New Zealand
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Robert Smith retweeted
7 Aug 2024
Our new study in @GCBiology reveals the devastating impact of New Zealand's strongest marine heatwave on a temperate photosynthetic sponge🌡️🧽🇳🇿
doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17417
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Robert Smith retweeted
29 Jul 2024
NIWA scientists have found that since 2006, strong, full-depth ocean warming has occurred south of the Chatham Islands at around 5x the global rate because of the ocean currents moving 120km west.🌊
More here➡️ niwa.co.nz/news/unprecedente…
📸NIWA's Dr Phil Sutton with an Argo float
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21 May 2024
(1/3) Low-salinity coastal waters of SE #NewZealand can extend >50 km offshore to impact the subAntractic, but what causes these intrusions? Our new work in CSR @ELSenviron led by @otago PhD graduate Erik Johnson w/@niwa_nz support explores their dynamics sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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21 May 2024
(2/3) Using a regional ocean model, we find river flow, along-front winds and inner shelf currents interact to modulate the plume from #NewZealands largest river. This interaction is crucial in understanding how freshwater intrudes past the #SubtropicalFront
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21 May 2024
(3/3) Such freshwater intrusions beyond the shelf break potentially support episodic, chlorophyll-a blooms in SubAntarctic waters, but in-situ observations of these events are rare. More to come! 🌱 #Ecosystems #MarineBiology
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Robert Smith retweeted
13 Dec 2023
@AlenaMalyarenko, @MadiRosevear & I are recruiting 2x PhDs at @UCNZ onto our @MarsdenFund project on Oceanography in an #Antarctic Grounding Zone. Modelling-based informed by new in-situ data.
nz.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=305…
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Robert Smith retweeted
20 Oct 2023
The collapse of the eastern Bering Sea snow crab population appears to be one of the largest reported losses of motile marine macrofauna to marine heatwaves science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Robert Smith retweeted
30 Aug 2023
“We are seeing shifts in species ranges...Cool water species are dying out in shallow waters or dying altogether,” says Prof. @moninya Roughan.
Read more at @CosmosMagazine about increasing sea temperatures & the predicted marine heatwave in the Tasman Sea:cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oce…
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Robert Smith retweeted
14 Aug 2023
📢 Job alert 📢
NIWA and the University of @otago are seeking a Lecturer/Researcher in marine biogeochemistry & carbonate chemistry.
Find all the details here ➡️ otago.taleo.net/careersectio…
📅 Applications close 10 September 2023
⏰Permanent, fulltime
📍 Dunedin
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