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HPC Steering Committee Members

Chairman:

  • Professor Paul Valdes
    Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol.
    Developing and applying Earth System Models ranging from idealised and intermediate complexity models (GENIE) to the Hadley Centre family, using both HPC and grid computing.

Members:

  • Professor John Brodholt
    Earth Sciences, University College London.
    Study of Earth's deep interior; Computational and experimental mineral physics to understand material properties under mantle and core conditions; Elastic and transport properties of core and mantle materials; With seismologists, applying results directly to the Earth.

  • Dr Andrew Coward
    Ocean Modelling and Forecasting Group, National Oceanography Centre.
    Large scale ocean modelling - the role of eddies in the global ocean circulation, ocean model development and High Performance Computing.

  • Dr Jason Holt
    National Oceanography Centre.
    POLCOMS model; Shelf seas: Dynamics; Coupled hydrodynamic ecosystem modelling (POLCOMS ERSEM); Physical controls on biogeochemical cycles; Role in Earth System; Mixing in stratified environments.

  • Dr Grenville Lister
    Computational Scientist, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Reading University.

  • Dr Andrew Orr
    British Antarctic Survey.
    Climate modelling - Atmospheric flows and processes; Effects on weather/climate of Polar Regions; Parameterization of sub-grid scale orographic/non-orographic gravity waves.

  • Professor Mat Collins
    University of Exeter; Met Office/Hadley Centre visiting scientist.
    Climate Systems; Climate modelling, variability and change; El Nino; Methods for quantifying uncertainty.

  • Professor David Marshall
    Department of Physics, University of Oxford.
    Dynamics of global ocean circulation; Role of the oceans in climate; Geophysical fluid dynamics; Numerical modelling of ocean circulation.

  • Professor Andreas Rietbrock
    Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Liverpool.
    Seismology, Subduction zones; Volcanology; Geophysics; Physical oceanography; Meteorology; Tectonics.

Ex Officio member:

  • Dr Colin Stephens
    National Oceanography Centre
    Head of IT for National Oceanography Centre; Chairman of NERC's IT Action Group; Hydrodynamic modelling on supercomputers/HPC.