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Geography

Dr Marie-Jose Messias

Office hours

Term 1/2/3: 

Wednesday 13:00-15:00 and Fridays 12:00-15:00

During these hours, I will be available in my office (Laver building, Level 9, room 910) or via Microsoft Teams/Zoom.  Please contact me by email if you can't book a  slot.

Please use this LINK to book a time slot. 

For information on downloading and using Microsoft Teams for students, see here.

Dr Marie-Jose Messias

Associate Professor
Physical Geography


Interests:

  • Ocean circulation, mixing, hydrography and water masses dating
  • High latitude studies, Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
  • Climate change in the oceans 
  • High precision measurements of oceanic transient tracers such as Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6), Trifluoromethyl Sulfur Pentafloride (SF5CF3) distributions to date water masses and highligth their pathways
  • Estimates of the oceanic uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) and anthropogenic Excess Heat using transient tracers
  • Tracer/dye release experiments (TRE) in the ocean
  • Rates and pathways of ocean overturning and ocean mixing  studies using transient tracers and TRE
  • Evaluation of numerical model simulations of oceanic processes using transient tracers and TRE


Qualifications:

PhD. Pierre & Marie Curie University, Paris, France, 1993, Oceanography

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