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This Forum provides a platform for knowledge exchange (information, education, networking), enabling the MASTS community to collaborate on Hydrodynamic Modelling Research. As models are used to simulate numerous oceanic activities, their broad range of applications require the expertise of a wide variety of disciplines.
2024: MASTS Open Forum Session “Particle Tracking”MASTS Open Forum Sessions aim at connecting the MASTS community with its diverse Research Forums and Steering Groups. At these sessions, Forums “open their doors” to present their members’ work and network with the community.
The NEHM Forum was excited to host this Session with talks from two Steering Group members:
Particle Tracking: A powerful and versatile technique for modelling dispersion in the ocean.
Speaker: Dr Philip Gillibrand, Oceanographer and Hydrodynamic Modeller at the Mowi Scotland Ltd Environment Team
Particle tracking models (PTMs) are powerful tools for simulating the transport and dispersion of material in the ocean. By assigning appropriate properties and characteristics to the particles, models can simulate, for example, the dispersion of dissolved chemicals, dispersal of living organisms, settling of particulate wastes and the beaching of floating plastics. Applications include oil spill response, search and rescue, academic research and coastal zone management. This presentation demonstrates the ease with which these different processes can be simulated in a PTM.
Particle Tracking Modelling: A practical demonstration using OceanParcels
Speaker: Soizic Garnier, Research Officer at the School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University
Particle tracking models are extensively used tools for simulating the transport and dispersion of a large range of particulate material in the marine environment. With their increasing use, more user-friendly particle tracking codes have been developed and shared within the scientific community. This presentation will introduce one of them, OceanParcels and demonstrate how to set up and run a simple simulation.
Like many scientific areas, the modelling of Scottish Coastal Waters is a diverse and evolving topic. Even practitioners in the area can find it difficult to keep track of the broadening applications and new technological approaches. This Roadmap, created by the NEHM Forum, aims at serving as a “living document” to provide access to this topic by gathering relevant information in a single place and allowing new information and ideas to be contributed by the community.
The Roadmap will soon be linked here – Sign up to the MASTS Newsletter to stay in the loop!
2023: Software Carpentry Workshop, organised and conducted by the Forum
Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills.
This free in-person workshop was organised and conducted by the MASTS Numerical & Experimental Hydrodynamic Modelling Forum and covered basic concepts and tools of Linux and Python, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants were encouraged to help one another and to apply what they learned to their own research problems.
2023: MASTS Annual Science Meeting
The Forum created an e-Poster for this conference which is available here.
The Marine Science Coordination Committee (MSCC) and MASTS are working with ecosystem modellers across the UK to increase the impact of ecosystem models on policy development and management. Learn more about MASTS members and their work with MSCC here.
Established within the Dynamics and Properties of Marine Systems Research Theme, the MASTS Numerical and Experimental Hydrodynamic Modelling (NEHM) Forum exists to promote numerical and experimental hydrodynamic modelling within Scotland, and to provide a platform for bringing together the scientific community to address current and future research needs.
Both numerical and physical models are used to simulate estuarine, coastal and ocean-scale flows, and as such have a broad range of applications, from environmental assessment, to marine energy, to climatology. MASTS members have research expertise in these areas, which can be seen below.
Physical Oceanographer
Interests: Marine Renewable Energy | Oceanography | Environmental Issues for Offshore Renewable Energy | Modelling Hydrodynamics of fast tidal stream | Tidal-stream turbines and blue economy
MASTS was founded in 2009 to be a unique collaboration between marine research organisations, government and industry.
Charity Number: SC045259
Company Number: SC485726
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