Office location: Room 115, Marine Centre Wales, Menai Bridge

(Tel: 01248 383961)

Email:  p.robins@bangor.ac.uk

Author profiles: Google Scholar | Researchgate

I am a Senior Lecturer in Physical Oceanography at the School of Ocean Sciences. I was awarded my Degree in Physical Oceanography and Mathematics at Bangor University in 2003 and my Ph.D in 2008, where I investigated internal tides in the Gareloch: a Scottish fjord. My postdoctoral and academic career has focused on physical modelling studies for Marine Renewable Energy, Coastal and estuarine processes including morphodynamics and water quality, and Biophysical larval transport.

I develop computer models to simulate ocean processes, whether this is realistic representations of the past or future, or hypothetical scenarios such as a proposed coastal alteration like flood mitigation measures. I have studied estuaries at fine scales to understand their sensitivity to complex interactions of rivers, tides, surges and sea-level rise, and how these interactions control coastal flooding, plastic dispersal, water quality and human health. I develop methods to characterise the bio-physical dispersal of larvae to help understand population dynamics and aid fishery and shellfishery management. I am interested in characterising variabilities in tidal energy available for our exploitation as a renewable electricity source – and quantifying the likely environmental implications that this may have. 

• PhD: Modelling internal tides
  2008
• MSc: Physical Oceanography and Maths

I currently supervise the following PhD students as primary supervisor:

Mirko Barada - Coastal flooding: using historical records to mitigate future risk. [Cemlyn Jones]

Thomas Clough - Predicting future compound hazards of coastal flooding [KESS-Dwr Cymru Welsh Water]

Aaron Furnish - Pathways to Realistic Impact Modelling in Estuarine Areas [NERC ENVISION]

Megan O'Hara - What drives cold pulses at remote tropical reefs? [NERC ENVISION]

.... and as co-supervisor:

Mike Ridgill - Hydrologiclal stream flow renewable enregy resource assessment. [KESS-Repetitive Energy]

Nia Jones - Dispersal of Microplastics in the Marine Environment. [NERC ENVISION]

Nic Chopin (MPhil) – variability in the Irish Mussel shellfishery [BIM]

Deanna Groom - Historical Shipwrecks and the impacts of climate change [Private]

Guy Walker-Springett - Sediment transport processes along the North Wales coast [KESS-SeftonCouncil]

Claire Carrington - Understanding responses of coastal seabirds to local and daily-scale meteorological variations [NERC ENVISION]

Jake Jackman - There and back again: monitoring the returning fish to the Mersey estuary [Salford/Bangor/MerseyGateway]

I welcome potential Phd projects on a range of coastal oceanography topics: e.g. estuarine processes, flood risk, water quality, coastal dispersal, marine renewable energy, sediment transport and climate change. Please get in touch with your ideas...

Please visit findaphd.com for up-to-date funded phd opportunities...

2022

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2021

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2020

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2019

• CyhoeddwydChanging Hydrology: A UK Perspective
  Robins, P. & Lewis, M., 2019, Coasts and estuaries: The future. Wolanski, E., Day, J., Elliott, M. & Ramachandran, R. (gol.). Burlington: Elsevier, t. 611-617 6 t.
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2017

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2015

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2014

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2009

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• There and back again: monitoring the returning fish to the Mersey estuary

  01/10/2021 – 30/04/2025 (Wrthi'n gweithredu)

• Investigating the Effect of Marine Plastic Waste on the Adaptive Resilience of Coastal Communities in Indonesia

  01/04/2021 – 11/05/2022 (Wedi gorffen)

• Pathways to Realistic Impact Modelling in Estuarine Areas (PRIMEA)

  01/10/2020 – 31/10/2024 (Wrthi'n gweithredu)

• Sensitivity of Estuaries to Climate Hazards (SEARCH)

  10/08/2020 – 09/03/2023 (Wrthi'n gweithredu)

• KESS II Phd with Dwr Cymru BUK2E025

  01/03/2020 – 31/05/2023 (Wrthi'n gweithredu)

• Combination flood risk from surge, tidal and rainfall

  01/11/2017 – 01/08/2019 (Wedi gorffen)

• Meetings to develop a RCUK proposal

  01/05/2017 – 31/01/2018 (Wedi gorffen)

• Ostrea Edulis Restoration

  01/12/2012 – 31/07/2013 (Wedi gorffen)

• Development of morphodynamic models of Welsh estuaries

  01/11/2012 – 31/07/2013 (Wedi gorffen)

2022      MEECE [CI, £465K]

2022      Bangor Innovation and Impact Award: Social Flooding [CO, £10K]

2022      HORIZON BlueAdapt: Adapting to climate change impacts on coastal pathogens [CI, £846K]

2022      National Geographic, Seal Tagging [CI, £20K]

2021      NERC: SHEAR: The impact of the physical environment on the foraging energetics of shearwaters and the consequences for breeding success.  [CI, £780K]

2021      Nature Networks Fund: Sharks Inspiring Action and Research with Communities. [PI, £25K]

2021      British Council:   Addressing Marine Plastic Waste & Climate Change in Indonesia. [PI, £46K]

2020      GCRF-Bangor: Mitigation of Marine Plastic Waste in Indonesian Waters. [PI, £40K]

2020      NERC-UKCRP: Sensitivity of Estuaries to Climate Change (SEARCH) [PI, £200K]

2020      NERC: Marine Plastic Pollution in the Philippines (SEAmap)  [CI, £821K]

2020      UKRI: National Wastewater Epidemiology Surveillance Programme (NWESP) [CI, £90K]

2019      NERC: Survival/persistence/ecology of microbial communities on marine plastics [CI, £479K]

2019      GCRF-Bangor: Emergence/distribution of human/animal viruses in Nigeria waters [CI, £70K]

2019      Welsh Gov: EIA for shellfisheries licence in the Menai Strait  [£21K]

2019      EMFF: Menai Offshore Subsurface Shellfish Systems (MOSSS) [CI, £750K]

2019      FSA: Develop assurance scheme for shellfish & human health (DASSHH)  [CI, £150K]

2017-18 NERC ERIIP (NE/R009007/1): Combination Hazard of Extreme rainfall, storm Surge & high Tide on estuarine infrastructure (CHEST). (T Coulthard, P Robins, M Lewis) £39K.

2017-20 INTERREG Atlantic Area Programme: COCKLES (Boosting Co-operation and integration of Capacities for applying Knowledge and mutual Learning in Restoring Cockle Shellfisheries and its related Ecosystem-Services in the Atlantic Area). (S Malham, P Robins, et al) £347K.  Led by CETMAR in Spain. 

2017-21 INTERREG: ECOSTRUCTURE (S Jenkins, A Davies, S Neill, P Robins, et al) ~£610k. Led by Aberystwyth.

2017 Sêr Cymru NRN Research Development Fund: Grant proposal development award. (P Robins, M Lewis, S Neill) £5k.

2017-20 INTERREG Ireland-Wales Programme: Bluefish (Building Resilience into Blue Growth in the Irish and Celtic Seas Fisheries and Aquaculture). (S Malham, P Robins, L LeVay, M Kaiser, et al.) £1.4m (Part of 6.6m euros multipartner).

2017-18 INTERREG Ireland -Wales Programme: Irish Sea Portal Pilot (ISPP). (S Malham, P Robins, L LeVay, et al.) £620k (part of 1.4 m euros with BIM in Ireland).

2017 FSA Desk based study: Active Management of Shellfisheries. (S Malham, L LeVayP Robins, et al.) £28k.  

2016 Sêr Cymru NRN Research Development Fund: Grant proposal development award. (M Lewis, P Robins, S Neill) £5k.

2016 Sêr Cymru NRN Research Development Fund: Tidal Lagoon Workshop. (S Neill, M Lewis, P Robins) £10k.

2015-18 KESS II ESF PhD studentship. Simulating variability of North Wales mussel populations (S Neill, P Robins, S Malham) £54k.

2015-18 NERC EMHH (NE/M010996/1): New approaches for the quantitative detection of human pathogenic viruses within the freshwater-marine continuum (D Jones, S Malham, J McDonnald, P Robins, et al.) £465k.

2015-17 NATIONAL PRIORITY RESEARCH PROGRAM (NPRP 7-1302 -1-242): Ecological processes underlying ecosystem function in arid mangroves. (L LeVay, et al) £235k.

2012-15 HPCWales-Fujitsu PhD studenship: Development of an integrated catchment-to-coast modelling system. (R Hashemi, et al) £70k.

2008-13 CCW: Morphodynamic modelling of Welsh estuaries. (A Davies, P Robins) ~£100k.