In a former life, I was an oceanographer working at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML)<\/a>, but now I work in IT as a UNIX\/Linux systems administrator.<\/p>\n

Most of my work at the moment revolves around installing, configuring and maintaining Linux servers, for the most part Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I use ansible for most of this along with a sprinkling of bash and python where necessary.<\/p>\n

I’ve also dabbled in some webdev, mainly with Flask, creating APIs for my weather station as well as for a light sensor I use with Home Assistant.<\/p>\n

I also use Red Hat OpenShift (Red Hat’s opinionated Kubernetes product) to deploy applications from source code through image building to deployment via CI\/CD pipelines (mainly gitlab-runner).<\/p>\n

During my time at PML, my research focus was on the application of unstructured grid modelling in coastal environments. The model I used for that was FVCOM (the Finite Volume Community Ocean Model)<\/a>. Coupled with FVCOM, the ERSEM ecosystem model<\/a> was used to assess the impacts of marine renewable energy devices (e.g. tidal turbines and wave energy devices) on ecosystem dynamics. I was part of the ROSA<\/a> aquaculture project in which changes in land use, farming practice and climate were assessed with FVCOM and ERSEM to generate inputs which were passed to individual farmers, allowing them to better manage their farms. More recently, I looked at impacts from carbon capture and storage (CCS)<\/a><\/p>\n

The EU-funded STEMM-CCS project<\/a> is a multi-disciplinary project which aims to deliver new approaches, methodologies and tools for offshore CCS. My role in this large project is to use FVCOM to model the propagation of potential releases of CO_{2<\/sub> from the seabed in the northern North Sea.<\/p>\n}

A similar project (Pre-ACT) aims to assess the extent and magnitude of the impact of releasing hypersaline water in the northern North Sea. Some preliminary results are visualised in ParaView<\/a> below.<\/p>\n