• 2023-Present: Co-Director, AI for the research of Environmental Risk Centre for Doctoral Training, University of Cambridge.
• 2023-Present: Sustainability By-Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge.
• 2013-Present: Physical Oceanographer in the Polar Oceans group, part of the NERC-funded CANARI and BIOPOLE projects.
• 2009-2013: PhD, BAS and Atmosphere-Oceans Dynamics Group, DAMTP, the University of Cambridge. Part of the international DIMES project.

Research interests

I am primarily interested in adjoint modelling and meso-scale eddy activity in the Polar regions. I also have interests in quasi-geostrophic dynamics, Lagrangian processes and climate science communication.

Boland, Emma J. D., 2013: Jets, Mixing, and Topography in the Southern Ocean, Phd Thesis, University of Cambridge, UK E-Thesis on DSpace

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive

1. ANTARCTICA INSYNC

   ANTARCTICA INSYNC brings together researchers from around the world including British Antarctic Survey to study the continent and the Southern Ocean at the same time.

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2. Climate change in the Arctic-North Atlantic Region

   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.

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3. Biogeochemical processes in polar ecosystems

   BIOPOLE studies how climate change is affecting the release of nutrients from the polar regions, and their redistribution around the world’s oceans.

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4. The Environment of the Arctic Climate, Ocean and Sea Ice

   TEA_COSI assesses Arctic Sea-ice which has an important impact on currents and ocean circulations around the globe

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