Emily Shuckburgh

Dynamical Oceanographer

Biography

Short description:
Dr Emily Shuckburgh is a Fellow at British Antarctic Survey and Director of the Carbon Neutral Futures Initiative at the University of Cambridge. Until April 2019 she led the national research programme on the Southern Ocean and its role in climate (ORCHESTRA), and was deputy head of the Polar Oceans Team and head of the Data Science Group at British Antarctic Survey. She is now based at the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge, where is also a fellow of Darwin College, a fellow of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and an associate fellow of the Centre for Science and Policy. In the past she has worked at Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris and at MIT. She is a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society and co-chair of their Climate Science Communications Group. She has also acted as an advisor to the UK Government on behalf of the Natural Environment Research Council. In 2016 she was awarded an OBE for services to science and the public communication of science. She is co-author with HRH The Prince of Wales and Tony Juniper of the Ladybird Book on Climate Change.

Biography:
1994 BA Mathematics, Magdalen College, Oxford University
1995 Part III Mathematics Tripos, Trinity College, Cambridge University
1999 PhD, Atmospheric Dynamics, Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University
1999 Senior Rouse Ball Scholar, Trinity College, Cambridge
2000-03 Research Fellow, Darwin College, Cambridge
2000 Post-doctoral Research Associate, European Ozone Co-ordinating Unit, University of Cambridge
2001-03 EC Marie Curie Research Fellow, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
2003- Fellow in Mathematics, Darwin College, Cambridge
2003-06 Director, Geophysical and Environmental Fluid Dynamics Summer School, Dept Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
2005 Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2006-09 NERC Research Fellow, British Antarctic Survey
2009-15 Head, Open Oceans, British Antarctic Survey
2010-13 Scientific Advisor to Dept of Energy and Climate Change
2015-19 Deputy-Head, Polar Oceans, British Antarctic Survey
2019- Director, Carbon Neutral Futures Initiative, University of Cambridge

Other Activities:
2001-09 Director, Weather Informatics Ltd
1999 British Association Media Fellow at BBC Tomorrow’s World

External Responsibilities:
Co-Chair Climate Science Communications Group, Royal Meteorological Society
Fellow, Darwin College, Cambridge
Fellow, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
Associate Fellow, Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge

Professional Societies:
Fellow, Royal Meteorological Society
Fellow, Royal Society for the Arts

Speeches and Presentations

General Interest Publications

Pre-2009 Publications

Recent Publications

Speeches and Presentations

General Interest Publications

An opportunity for innovation rather than a challenge, Financial Times, 2014 Business Schools have a role
to play in translating implications of global sustainabilty, Christoph Loch, Polly Courtice and Emily Shuckburgh
Climate Change and the Polar regions, in Science in Parliament, Witsun 2013, [PDF].
The Scientific Basis of Climate Change, in The Darwinian, Issue 9, Summer 2007, [PDF].
Innovative Britain, in The New Statesman, 16 January 2006, [PDF].
Report of the SPARC Workshop on the Role of the Stratosphere in Tropospheric Climate, in SPARC Newsletter, 21, June 2003, [webpage].
Review of AGU Fall Meeting Session: New Insights into Stratospheric Chemistry, Dynamics, and Transport, in SPARC Newsletter 18, January 2002, [webpage].
Brewer-Dobson Workshop, 13-15 December 1999, Oxford, UK, in SPARC Newsletter 15, [webpage].
Modulation of Tracer Transport in the Tropical Lower Stratosphere by the QBO, in UGAMP Newsletter 20, January 1999, [webpage].
The Impact of Mixing within the Antarctic Stratospheric Vortex on Springtime Ozone Loss, in UGAMP Newsletter 20, January 1999, [webpage].
Women’s Lab, in The Sunday Times, [PDF].
Brains Glore, in Eve Magazine, [PDF].
Pre-2009 Publications
Survival, Survival of the Human Race, ed Shuckburgh, E., Cambridge Univeristy Press, 2008
Haynes, P.H., Poet, D.A., Shuckburgh, E.F., Transport and mixing in kinematic and dynamically-consistent flows, J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 3640-3651, 2007.
Marshall, J., Shuckburgh, E., Jones, H., Hill, C., Estimates and implications of surface eddy diffusivity in the southern ocean derived from tracer transport , J. Phys. Oceanog., 36, 1806-1821, 2006.
Shuckburgh, E. F., and Haynes, P. H., Diagnosing transport and mixing using a tracer-based coordinate system , Physics of Fluids, 15, 3342-3357, 2003.
Scott, R. T., et al., Stretching rates and equivalent length near the tropopause. J. Geophys. Res., 108, 4394, 2003.
Baldwin, M. P., et al., Weather from the Stratosphere? Science, 301, 317-319, 2003.
Shuckburgh, E. F., et al., The influence of the quasi-biennial oscillation on isentropic transport and mixing in the tropics and subtropics. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 14,327-14,338, 2001.
Lee, A. M., et al., The impact of the mixing properties within the Antarctic stratospheric vortex on ozone loss in spring. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 3,203-3,211, 2001.
Haynes, P. H. and Shuckburgh, E. F., Effective diffusivity as a measure of atmospheric transport, Part I: stratosphere. J. Geophys. Res., 105, 22,777-22,794, 2000.
Haynes, P. H. and Shuckburgh, E. F., Effective diffusivity as a measure of atmospheric transport, Part II: troposphere and lower stratosphere. J. Geophys. Res., 105, 22,795-22,810, 2000.
Recent publications

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive

2019

Jones, Daniel C., Boland, Emma, Meijers, Andrew J.S., Forget, Gael, Josey, Simon A., Sallee, Jean-Baptiste, Shuckburgh, Emily. (2019) Heat distribution in the Southeast Pacific is only weakly sensitive to high-latitude heat flux and wind stress.. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124. 10.1029/2019JC015460

Jones, Dan, Holt, Harry, Meijers, Andrew, Shuckburgh, Emily. (2019) Unsupervised clustering of Southern Ocean Argo float temperature profiles. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124. 390-402. 10.1029/2018JC014629

2018

Hosking, J. Scott, MacLeod, D., Phillips, T., Holmes, C.R., Watson, P., Shuckburgh, E.F., Mitchell, D.. (2018) Changes in European wind energy generation potential within a 1.5°C warmer world. Environmental Research Letters, 13. 10.1088/1748-9326/aabf78

Jones, Daniel C., Forget, Gael, Sinha, Bablu, Josey, Simon A., Boland, Emma J.D., Meijers, Andrew J.S., Shuckburgh, Emily. (2018) Local and remote influences on the heat content of the Labrador Sea: an adjoint sensitivity study. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123. 2646-2667. 10.1002/2018JC013774

McKenna, Christine M., Bracegirdle, Thomas J., Shuckburgh, Emily F., Haynes, Peter H., Joshi, Manoj M.. (2018) Arctic Sea Ice Loss in Different Regions Leads to Contrasting Northern Hemisphere Impacts. Geophysical Research Letters, 45. 945-954. 10.1002/2017GL076433

2017

Boland, Emma J.D., Bracegirdle, Thomas J., Shuckburgh, Emily F.. (2017) Assessment of sea ice-atmosphere links in CMIP5 models. Climate Dynamics, 49. 683-702. doi:10.1007/s00382-016-3367-1

Mitchell, D, AchutaRao, K, Bethke, I, Beyerle, U, Ciavarella, A, Forster, PM, Fuglestvedt, J, Gillett, N, Haustein, K, Ingram, W, Iversen, T, Kharin, V, Klingaman, N, Massey, N, Fischer, E, Schleussner, C-F, Scinocca, J, Seland, Ø, Shiogama, H, Shuckburgh, Emily, Sparrow, S, Stone, D, Uhe, P, Wallom, D, Wehner, M, Zaaboul, R. (2017) Half a degree additional warming, prognosis and projected impacts (HAPPI): background and experimental design. Geoscientific Model Development, 10. 571-583. 10.5194/gmd-10-571-2017

2016

Jones, Daniel C., Meijers, Andrew J.S., Shuckburgh, Emily, Sallee, Jean-Baptiste, Haynes, Peter, McAufield, Ewa K., Mazloff, Matthew R.. (2016) How does Subantarctic Mode Water ventilate the Southern Hemisphere subtropics?. Journal of Geophysical Research, 121. 6558-6582. 10.1002/2016JC011680

Abalos, Marta, Legras, Bernard, Shuckburgh, Emily. (2016) Interannual variability in effective diffusivity in the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere from reanalysis data. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 142. 1847-1861. doi:10.1002/qj.2779

2015

Wolff, Eric W., Shepherd, John G., Shuckburgh, Emily, Watson, Andrew J.. (2015) Feedbacks on climate in the Earth system: introduction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 373. doi:10.1098/rsta.2014.0428

Boland, Emma J.D., Shuckburgh, Emily, Haynes, Peter H., Ledwell, James R., Messias, Marie-José, Watson, Andrew J.. (2015) Estimating a sub-mesoscale diffusivity using a roughness measure applied to a tracer release experiment in the Southern Ocean. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 45. 1610-1631. 10.1175/JPO-D-14-0047.1

Anderies, John M., Kaper, Hans G., Shuckburgh, Emily F., Zagaris, Antonios. (2015) Introduction to Focus Issue: Nonlinear Dynamics for Planet Earth. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 25. doi:10.1063/1.4915260

2014

Grant, Timothy, Laws, Robert, Shuckburgh, Emily. (2014) Estimating ocean currents from the shapes of laterally steered streamer arrays. First Break, 32. 57-66. 10.3997/1365-2397.2014018

Shuckburgh, Emily, Chambers, Catherine. (2014) Polar scientist: the coolest jobs on the planet. Raintree, 48 pp.

2013

Shuckburgh, Emily. (2013) Climate change and the polar regions. Science in Parliament, 70. 14-16.

Zika, Jan D., Le Sommer, Julien, Dufour, Carolina O., Molines, Jean-Marc, Barnier, Bernard, Brasseur, Pierre, Dussin, Raphaël, Penduff, Thierry, Iudicone, Daniele, Lenton, Andrew, Madec, Gurvan, Mathiot, Pierre, Orr, James, Shuckburgh, Emily, Vivier, Frederic. (2013) Vertical Eddy Fluxes in the Southern Ocean. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 43. 941-955. doi:10.1175/JPO-D-12-0178.1

Sallee, J.-B., Shuckburgh, E., Bruneau, N., Meijers, AJ.S., Bracegirdle, T.J., Wang, Z., Roy, T.. (2013) Assessment of Southern Ocean water mass circulation and characteristics in CMIP5 models: Historical bias and forcing response. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 118. 1830-1844. doi:10.1002/jgrc.20135

Sallee, J.-B., Shuckburgh, E., Bruneau, N., Meijers, A.J.S., Bracegirdle, T.J., Wang, Z.. (2013) Assessment of Southern Ocean mixed-layer depth in CMIP5 models: historical bias and forcing response. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 118. 1845-1862. 10.1002/jgrc.20157

Robison, Rosie, Shuckburgh, Emily. (2013) Communicating climate science. Weather, 68. 87-87. 10.1002/wea.2088

Grant, Timothy, Laws, Robert, Shuckburgh, Emily. (2013) Inferring ocean currents from the shapes of towed seismic streamers. Extended abstract. In: 75th EAGE Conference & Exhibition incorporating SPE EUROPEC London, 10-13 June 2013.

Bracegirdle, Thomas J., Shuckburgh, Emily, Sallee, Jean-Baptiste, Wang, Zhaomin, Meijers, Andrew J.S., Bruneau, Nicolas, Phillips, Tony, Wilcox, Laura J.. (2013) Assessment of surface winds over the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Ocean sectors of the Southern Ocean in CMIP5 models: historical bias, forcing response, and state dependence. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 118. 547-562. doi:10.1002/jgrd.50153

2012

Shuckburgh, Emily F.. (2012) Oceanographers’ contribution to climate modelling and prediction: progress to date and a future perspective. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 370. 5656-5681. doi:10.1098/rsta.2012.0402

Shuckburgh, Emily F.. (2012) Mapping unstable manifolds using drifters/floats in a Southern Ocean field campaign. In: ICNAAM 2012: International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, AIP, 650-653. 10.1063/1.4756218

Roscoe, Howard K., Feng, Wuhu, Chipperfield, Martyn P., Trainic, Miriam, Shuckburgh, Emily. (2012) The existence of the edge region of the Antarctic stratospheric vortex. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 117. 12 pp. 10.1029/2011JD015940

Shuckburgh, Emily. (2012) Climate scientists need to study the public, too. Research Fortnight, 400. 22-22.

Shuckburgh, Emily, Robison, Rosie, Pidgeon, Nick. Simos, TE, Psihoyios, G, Tsitouras, C, Anastassi, Z (eds.). (2012) Climate science, the public and the news media. Summary findings of a survey and focus groups conducted in the UK in March 2011. Living with Environmental Change, 56 pp.

Gille, Sarah T., Ledwell, James, Naveira-Garabato, Alberto, Speer, Kevin, Balwada, Dhruv, Brearley, Alex, Girton, James B., Griesel, Alexa, Ferrari, Raffaele, Klocker, Andreas, LaCasce, Joseph, Lazarevich, Peter, Mackay, Neill, Meredith, Michael P., Messias, Marie-José, Owens, Breck, Sallée, Jean-Baptiste, Sheen, Kathy, Shuckburgh, Emily, Smeed, David A., St.Laurent, Louis C., Toole, John M., Watson, Andrew J., Wienders, Nicolas, Zajaczkovski, Uriel. (2012) The Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment: A First Assessment. CLIVAR Exchanges, 58(Vol. 17(1). 46-48.

Meijers, A.J.S., Shuckburgh, E., Bruneau, N., Sallee, J.-B., Bracegirdle, T.J., Wang, Z.. (2012) Representation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in the CMIP5 climate models and future changes under warming scenarios. Journal of Geophysical Research (Oceans), 117. 19 pp. 10.1029/2012JC008412

Boland, Emma J. D., Thompson, Andrew F., Shuckburgh, Emily, Haynes, Peter H.. (2012) The formation of nonzonal jets over sloped topography. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 42. 1635-1651. doi:10.1175/JPO-D-11-0152.1

2011

Shuckburgh, Emily, Maze, Guillaume, Ferreira, David, Marshall, John, Jones, Helen, Hill, Chris. (2011) Mixed layer lateral eddy fluxes mediated by air-sea interaction. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 41. 130-144. 10.1175/2010JPO4429.1

Shuckburgh, Emily. (2011) Weather and climate. In: Environmental hazards. The fluid dynamics and geophysics of extreme events, London, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 63-97. (Lecture Note Series, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, ).

Moffatt, H.K., Shuckburgh, Emily (eds.). (2011) Environmental hazards. The fluid dynamics and geophysics of extreme events. London, World Scientific PublishingCo. Pte. Ltd, (Lecture Note Series, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, 21).

2010

Abernathey, Ryan, Marshall, John, Mazloff, Matt, Shuckburgh, Emily. (2010) Enhancement of mesoscale eddy stirring at steering levels in the Southern Ocean. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 40. 170-184. 10.1175/2009JPO4201.1

2009

Nisbet, R. E. R., Fisher, R., Nimmo, R. H., Bendall, D. S., Crill, P. M., Gallego-Sala, A. V., Hornibrook, E. R. C., Lopez-Juez, E., Lowry, D., Nisbet, P. B. R, Shuckburgh, E. F., Sriskantharajah, S., Howe, C. J., Nisbet, E. G.. (2009) Emission of methane from plants. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 276. 1347-1354. 10.1098/rspb.2008.1731

D'Ovidio, Francesco, Shuckburgh, Emily, Legras, Bernard. (2009) Local mixing events in the upper-troposphere and lower-stratosphere. Part I: detection with the Lyapunov diffusivity. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 66. 3678-3694. 10.1175/2009JAS2982.1

Shuckburgh, Emily, Jones, Helen, Marshall, John, Hill, Chris. (2009) Understanding the regional variability of eddy diffusivity in the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 39. 2011-2023. 10.1175/2009JPO4115.1

Shuckburgh, Emily, Jones, Helen, Marshall, John, Hill, Chris. (2009) Robustness of an effective diffusivity diagnostic in oceanic flows. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 39. 1993-2009. 10.1175/2009JPO4122.1

Shuckburgh, Emily, D'Ovidio, Francesco, Legras, Bernard. (2009) Local mixing events in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. Part II: seasonal and interannual variability. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 66. 3695-3706. 10.1175/2009JAS2983.1