Prof. Philip L. Woodworth

Current projects
Global Sea Level Observing System.   (GLOSS) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) (Former Chairman).

Satellite altimeter missions.   Principal Investigator for NASA/CNES and ESA missions.

Space gravity missions.   Member of the Science Working Teams for the GOCE space gravity mission.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.   Lead and Contributing Author for the sea level component of the IPCC Assessment Reports.

UK National Tidal and Sea Level Facility   Founding Chairman.

Research interests
Studies of sea level variations from time scales of hours (e.g. tides) through to long term changes as a result of climate change.

Sea level measurement technology (e.g. state-of-the-art tide gauges).

Liverpool maritime history.

Interests in aspects of fundamental physics (undertaken vicariously).

Member of the Remote Sensing Society, Challenger Society and American Geophysical Union. Fellow of the International Association of Geodesy.

Current Appointments (part list)
President IAPSO Commission on Mean Sea Level and Tides.
Editorial Board Journal of Coastal Research.
Visiting Professor Liverpool University Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences.
Secretary of Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical Data Analysis Services.

Former director for the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL)

Selected publications

Woodworth, P.L., J.M. Vassie, R. Spencer and D.E. Smith (1996). "Precise datum control for pressure tide gauges." Marine Geodesy, 19(1): 1-20.

Woodworth, P.L. (1999). "High waters at Liverpool since 1768: the UK's longest sea level record." Geophysical Research Letters, 26(11): 1589-1592.

Church, J.A., Gregory, J.M., Huybrechts, P., Kuhn, M., Lambeck, K., Nhuan, M.T., Qin, D. and Woodworth, P.L. 2001. Changes in sea level. In, Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (eds. J.T. Houghton, Y. Ding, D.J. Griggs, M. Noguer, P.J. van der Linden, X. Dai, K. Maskell and C.A. Johnson). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 881pp.

Woodworth, P.L. 2002. Three Georges and one Richard Holden: the Liverpool tide table makers. Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 151, 19-51.

Woodworth, P.L., Gregory, J.M. and Nicholls, R.J. 2004. Long term sea level changes and their impacts. pp.717-752 (chapter 18) in The Sea, Volume 13, edited by A.R. Robinson, J. McCarthy and B.J. Rothschild.

Further selection of author's POL publications.