Dr Jules Kajtar
Research Interests
- Measuring the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and understanding its climate impacts
- Drivers and predictability of marine heatwaves
- Large scale patterns of climate variability, and their connections and impacts
PhD students
- Jiaxin Shi (2022 - ): Marine heatwave hazards, risks, and emerging stress-scapes under global warming
- John Reilly (2022 - ): Dynamical downscaling of Australia's marine climate
- Darren Li Shing Hiung (2022 - ): Determining marine heatwave baselines
- Yuxin Wang (2020 - 2024): Understanding the predictability of marine heatwaves
Engagement highlights
- Into the Blue Podcast: Why are we experiencing marine heatwaves and How Do We Tackle Them?
- UKRI Reels interview: What is a marine heatwave?
- UKRI Reels interview: Do we need to worry about the Gulf Stream?
- Scientist Spotlight: Understanding Ocean Physics
- Interviewed for a piece by the Science Museum: UK suffers extreme marine heatwave
Links
Member of the International Commission on Climate (ICCL), which is one of the commissions of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS) and the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)
Member of the Challenger Society for Marine Science
Co-investigator on RAPID-Evolution
Designing and demonstrating the accuracy of a more sustainable, lower cost RAPID 26N observing system for future observations of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.
Member of the NOC Ocean Circulation and Processes Subgroup
Convenor of the weekly Marine Physics and Ocean Climate Southampton (MPOC-S) meetings
