Dr Dani Jones is an environmental scientist with a background in physical oceanography and applied mathematics. During their time as part of the Polar Oceans Team (2013-2023), they helped establish the institute as a centre for the application of adjoint modelling and machine learning to problems in oceanography. Specifically, they used adjoint modelling to examine ventilation, circulation, and dynamics in both the North Atlantic Ocean and the Southern Ocean as part of the ACSIS and ORCHESTRA projects. Dr Jones also has interests in unsupervised classification of oceanographic data and is a co-founder of the BAS AI Lab.
Currently, they are working with BAS on the ocean adjoint modelling components of two projects: C-STREAMS, which aims to quantify the sensitivity of the North Atlantic carbon sink to upstream physical drivers, and OceanBound, which aims to refresh our understanding of large-scale ocean dynamics using boundary pressure as a fundamental concept.
Dr Jones is now an Associate Research Scientist at the University of Michigan, specifically at the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR). They will continue to link BAS and CIGLR, particularly in the application of machine learning techniques to problems in the Great Lakes region.
Jones, D.C., T. Ito, and N.S. Lovenduski (2011), The transient response of the Southern Ocean pycnocline to changing atmospheric winds, Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L15604, doi:10.1029/2011GL048145
The European Space Agency (ESA) Southern Ocean-Ice Shelf Interactions (SO-ICE) project is a collaborative research project bringing together the ESA Polar+ Ice Shelves and 4D Antarctica projects, and the European Commission Southern Ocean Carbon and Heat Impact on Climate (SO-CHIC) project, in order to improve understanding of the processes controlling ice-ocean interactions in Antarctica.
CANARI aims to advance understanding of the impacts on the UK arising from climate variability and change in the Arctic-North Atlantic region, with a focus on extreme weather and the potential for rapid, disruptive change.
The recent extreme swings in Antarctic sea ice extent emphasise the need to increase our knowledge of the drivers and climate implications of Antarctic sea ice loss.
BIOPOLE studies how climate change is affecting the release of nutrients from the polar regions, and their redistribution around the world’s oceans.
SO-WISE addresses a critical knowledge gap in understanding how warm ocean water reaches and melts the undersides of West Antarctic ice shelves, which is currently the largest source of uncertainty in global sea level rise projections.
ACSIS focussed on understanding changes occurring across the North Atlantic climate system in the ocean, the atmosphere, the cryosphere and the interactions between these constituent components.
Understanding the Ocean Regulation of Climate by Heat, Carbon Sequestration and Transports
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Dr Dani Jones is an Oceanographer at the British Antarctic Survey and a Senior Member at Darwin College, University of Cambridge. They have over 15 years of experience in the […]
What can machine learning tell us about the structure of the Southern Ocean? In this preprint*, we apply unsupervised clustering, a machine learning method, to Southern Ocean temperature data. * […]
Summary available here: http://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/news/article-climate-change-modelling/
Investigating the Southern Ocean Oceanographers Dan Jones and Erik MacKie are onboard the RRS James Clark Ross carrying out a hydrographic survey in the Southern Ocean as part of a […]
Natural Environment Research Council’s pioneering Pushing the Frontiers scheme has funded four projects led by scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS). The projects, which received grants totaling £3.8m, are part […]
A new AI (artificial intelligence) tool is set to enable scientists to more accurately forecast Arctic sea ice conditions months into the future. The improved predictions could underpin new early-warning […]
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has announced its latest round of Future Leaders Fellowships today (23 April 2020). Congratulations to Dr Dan Jones and Dr Clara Manno of British Antarctic […]
Join your local climate experts for a climate change conversation. The event is hosted by British Antarctic Survey as part of Cambridge Science Festival 2020.
