Research group

Digital Oceans

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A collaborative platform for exploring advancements and exchanging expertise in digital technology within the marine and maritime space. We foster innovation and research.

About

Research areas

Marine solutions and economies are expanding along with increasing threats to the marine environment. Harnessing progress in digital oceans is essential for addressing global and local challenges.

Digital Oceans focuses on advances in marine digital technology, in areas such as:

  • artificial intelligence
  • data infrastructure and management
  • ocean mapping
  • simulation
  • visualisation such as digital twins

Digital Oceans is a special interest group that aims to establish a collaborative platform for researchers to engage in marine digital applications and methods. Their interest is in a deeper understating of our oceans and in data-driven insights that can inform sustainable practices. They use digital innovation to address practices and changes affecting our marine environments. 

Digital Oceans facilitates efficiency and accessibility. This is achieved through advances in artificial intelligence that improve data analysis and decision-making processes; the optimisation of data structures and management; and new frontiers in ocean mapping, simulation and visualisations.

Our ambition is to:

  • promote and champion Digital Oceans
  • increase awareness to marine digital technologies 
  • foster collaborations and the exchange of ideas 

The Digital Oceans group strives to bridge the gap between cutting-edge marine digital technologies and social and human sciences. 

Our vision is to promote environmental stewardship and help innovations to impact our oceans and the global community.  

To find out more about the Digital Oceans Special Interest Group and what we do, get in touch with group champions Alexandra Karamitrou, Crystal El Safadi, Philip Leadbitter and Hugo Putuhena.

Join the SMMI Community to sign up to this group and our other special interest groups.

People, projects and publications

People

Dr Marc Dumont

Lecturer in Environmental Microbiology

Research interests

  • Methanotrophs and methane cycling
  • Microbial communities in soils, sediments, and aquatic systems
  • Biogeochemical cycles

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Maria Baker

Principal Enterprise Fellow
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Professor Maria Hayward

Head of Department

Research interests

  • Early modern textiles and clothing especially in a court context.
  • Early modern court culture, including the Tudors and the later Stuarts.
  • Early modern Scotland, in particular looking at the engagement of the male elite with material culture. 

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Marianne O'Doherty

Professor

Research interests

  • Medieval travel and pilgrimage literature
  • Medieval maps, geographical writing, place and space, literary geographies
  • Spatial humanities (including digital)

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Professor Mario Brito

Head of Department

Research interests

  • Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Complex Systems 
  • Impact of Organizational Factors on Socio-technical Systems Risk
  • Root cause analysis and Accident Investigations

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Professor Mark Chapman

Professor

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Professor Mark Moore

Professor of Oceanography

Research interests

  • Marine Biogeochemistry
  • Oceanic nutrient and carbon cycling
  • Phytoplankton photosynthesis

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Dr Markus Brede

Associate Professor
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Professor Markus Heller

Professor of Biomechanics
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Enquiries

If you're interested in joining us or collaborating, get in touch with the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute.