Dr Matthew Palmer

Current projects
Liverpool Bay Coastal Observatory: providing regular monitoring and continuous in situ measurements of oceanographic parameters from sites in Liverpool Bay in collaboration with a wide range of users from academic, government and commercial groups. The Observatory also aims to integrate real-time measurements with coupled models into a coastal prediction system.

Horizontal Patchiness in Vertical Mixing (Oceans2025 NERC core science): Collaborating with colleagues at the Scottish Association for Marine Science and at Aberdeen University on assessing the physics and biological impacts of patchy mixing, driven by variations in seabed bathymetry and in surface meteorological forcing, including the consequences for marine bioresources.

Research interests

• Turbulence and mixing in stratified shelf seas
• Measurements of turbulence using microstructure profilers and acoustic techniques
• Integration of ocean observations and numerical models to better understand shelf sea dynamics

Publications

Palmer, M. R. (2010), Strain induced mixing in the Liverpool Bay ROFI. Ocean Dynamics 60(2) 219-226. DOI: 10.1007/s10236-009-0246-x Sharples, J., Moore, C. M., Hickman, A.E., Holligan, P.M., Tweddle J.F., Palmer M.R. and Simpson, J.H. (2009) Internal tidal mixing as a control on continental margin ecosystems. Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L23603. (doi:10.1029/2009GL040683).

Tom P. Rippeth, P. Wiles, M.R. Palmer, J. Sharples, J. Tweddle (2009) The diapcynal nutrient flux and shear-induced diapcynal mixing in the seasonally stratified western Irish Sea. CSR 29 (2009) 1580-1587 doi:10.1016/j.csr.2009.04.009.

Palmer, M. R., T. P. Rippeth, and J. H. Simpson (2008), An investigation of internal mixing in a seasonally stratified shelf sea, JGR Oceans., 113, C12005, doi:10.1029/2007JC004531.

Hickman, A.E., Holligan, P.M., Moore, C.M., Sharples, J., Krivtsov, V., Palmer, M.R. (2009). Distribution and chromatic adaptation of phytoplankton within a shelf sea thermocline. L&O 54(2) 525-536.

J.A. Mattias Green, John H. Simpson, Sonya Legg, Matthew R. Palmer, 2008: Internal waves, baroclinic energy fluxes and mixing at the European shelf edge. CSR 28 (2008) 937-950.

Sharples , J., J. F. Tweddle, J. A. M. Green, M. R. Palmer, Y-N. Kim, A. E. Hickman, P. M. Holligan, C. M. Moore, T. P. Rippeth, J. H. Simpson, and V. Krivtsov. 2007. Spring-neap modulation of internal tide mixing and vertical nitrate fluxes at a shelf edge in summer. L&O 52(5),1735-1747.

C. Saurel, J. C. Gascoigne, M. R. Palmer, and M. J. Kaiser, 2007: In situ mussel feeding behavior in relation to multiple environmental factors: Regulation through food concentration and tidal conditions. L&O 52(5), 2007, 1919-1929.

Rippeth T.P, Palmer M.R., Simpson J.H., Fisher N.R. Sharples J., 2005; Thermocline mixing in summer stratified continental shelf seas GRL 10.1029/2004GL022104, 2005.