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Dr Natalie Robinson

Marine Physicist

+64-4-382-1619

Biography:

Natalie is a marine physicist, specialising in polar oceanography. Her work ranges in scale from regional scale circulation and inter-annual variability to small-scale processes at the ice-ocean interface. Her work has significantly contributed to understanding the oceanic connection between ice shelf and sea ice regimes. This has required direct sub-ice observations of pressure-induced supercooling; multi-phase fluid flow; roughness and drag at the interface; and buoyancy-driven convection. She leads a Fast-Start Marsden project on understanding the boundary layer beneath platelet ice, and is a co-PI on one of the new Antarctic Science Platform projects: Sea ice and carbon cycle feedbacks. She is passionate about making science accessible to everyone and has participated in numerous outreach and engagement opportunities across a variety of platforms.

Articles:

Malyarenko, A., A. J. Wells, P. J. Langhorne, N. J. Robinson, M. J.M. Williams, K. W. Nicholls (2020), A synthesis of thermodynamic ablation at ice-ocean interfaces from theory, observations and models, Ocean Modelling 154.

C. L. Stevens, C. Hulbe, M. Brewer, C. L. Stewart, N. J. Robinson, C. Ohneiser, S. Jendersie (2020), Ocean mixing and heat transport processes observed under the Ross Ice Shelf controls its basal melting, PNAS June 29, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1910760117

Robinson, N. J., B.S. Grant, C.L. Stevens, C.L. Stewart, and M.J.M. Williams (2019), Oceanographic observations in supercooled water: Protocols for mitigation of measurement errors in profiling and moored sampling, Cold Regions Science and Technology 170 102954, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coldregions.2019.102954

Malyarenko, A., N. J. Robinson, M. J. M. Williams and P. J. Langhorne (2019), A wedge mechanism for summer surface water inflow into the Ross Ice Shelf cavity, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124 DOI: 10.1029/2018JC014594.

Robinson, N. J., C. L. Stevens, M. G. McPhee, ‘Observations of amplified roughness from crystal accretion in the sub-ice ocean boundary layer’, Geophysical Research Letters, 44, doi:10.1002/2016GL071491 (2017).

Robinson, N. J., M. J. M. Williams, C. L. Stevens, P. J. Langhorne and T. G. Haskell, ‘Evolution of a supercooled Ice Shelf Water plume with an actively growing subice platelet matrix’, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans (2014)

Robinson, N. J. and M. J. M. Williams, ‘Iceberg-induced changes to polynya operation and regional oceanography in the southern Ross Sea, Antarctica, from in situ observations’, Antarctic Science, 24(5), 514-525, (2012)

Robinson, N.J., Williams, M.J.M. Barrett, P.J. and Pyne, A.R., ‘Observations of flow and ice-ocean interaction beneath the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica’, Journal of Geophysical Research, (2010).