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Dr Sophie-Berenice Wilmes

Honorary Research Fellow

s.wilmes@bangor.ac.uk

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Dr Sophie-Berenice Wilmes

View Dr Sophie-Berenice Wilmes’s profile on the Bangor Research Portal

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Room: 324 Westbury Mount

Email: s.wilmes@bangor.ac.uk

Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sophie_Berenice_Wilmes/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uPDoVlgAAAAJ&hl=en

Twitter: @SophieBWilmes

Research Interests

After my undergraduate in Ocean Science at Bangor University and an MSc degree in Climate Sciences at the University of Bern in Switzerland, I completed my PhD at Bangor University under supervision of Dr Mattias Green and Prof James Scourse. I then spent two years as a PostDoc at Oregon State University collaborating with Prof Andreas Schmittner before moving back to Bangor University to work on two international EU projects, BlueFish and COCKLES investigating larval transport patterns and the impact of oceangraphic/tidal features on genetic differentiation. Currenly, I am investigating deep-time climate and ocean dynamics, focussing on the Archean period when life first developed on Earth. This research is focussing on understanding the long-term drivers of climate and Earth and the reasons a planet may have a climate in the habitable climate range.

My research to date has looked at long-term changes in the tides due to variations in sea-level and climate and has focussed on the impacts of tidal changes on the large-scale ocean circulation during the Last Glacial Maximum and thus climate. I am also investigating the impact of the tides on shelf sea oceangraphic features and their impacts for foraging of Manx shearwaters, larval transport patterns and baterioplankton communities which are all heavily influenced by the tide. Understanding these links and their interannual variability will aid to understand the implications of the resilience of these systems to future climate change.

Publications

2025

  • E-pub ahead of printAdjustable wind selectivity in shearwaters implies knowledge of the foraging landscape
    Harris, S., Bishop, C. M., Bond, S., Fernandes, P. G., Guilford, T., Lewin, P. J., Padget, O., Robins, P., Schneider, W., Waggitt, J., Wilmes, S.-B. & Cordes, L., 14 Jan 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Current Biology.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedThe Role of Long-Term Hydrodynamic Evolution in the Accumulation and Preservation of Organic Carbon-Rich Shelf Sea Deposits
    Ward, S., Bradley, S. L., Roseby, Z. A., Wilmes, S.-B., Vosper, D. F., Roberts, C. M. & Scourse, J. D., 4 Apr 2025, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 130, 4, e2024JC022092.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2024

  • PublishedPredicting potential spawning areas of European bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, in the Irish and Celtic Seas
    Lincoln, H., Robins, P., Wilmes, S.-B., Pérez-Mayol, S., Moore, A., Simpson, S., Goward Brown, A., Heney, C., Malham, S., Morales-Nin, B., Hold, N. & McCarthy, I., 1 Feb 2024, In: Fisheries Research. 270, 106884.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2023

  • PublishedHeterogeneous microgeographic genetic structure of the common cockle (Cerastoderma edule) in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean: biogeographic barriers and environmental factors
    Vera, M., Wilmes, S.-B., Maroso, F., Hermida, M., Blanco, A., Casanova, A., Iglesias, D., Cao, A., Culloty, S. C., Mahony, K., Orvain, F., Bouza, C., Robins, P., Malham, S., Lynch, S., Antonio, V. & Martínez, P., Oct 2023, In: Heredity. 131, 4, p. 292-305
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedLate Pleistocene evolution of tides and tidal dissipation
    Wilmes, S.-B., Pedersen, V. K., Schindelegger, M. & Green, M., 9 Nov 2023, In: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 38, 11, e2023PA004727.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedSeasonal development of a tidal mixing front drives shifts in community structure and diversity of bacterioplankton
    King, N., Wilmes, S.-B., Browett, S. S., Healey, A., McDevitt, A. D., McKeown, N. J., Roche, R., Skujina, I., Smale, D., Thorpe, J. & Malham, S., 5 Sept 2023, In: Molecular Ecology. 32, 18, p. 4953-5210
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2022

  • PublishedGenomic survey of edible cockle (Cerastoderma edule) in the Northeast Atlantic: a baseline for sustainable management of its wild resources.
    Vera, M., Maroso, F., Wilmes, S.-B., Malham, S., Groves, E., Hermida, M., Blanco, A., Fernandez, C., Bouza, C., Martinez, P. & Robins, P., 24 Feb 2022, In: Evolutionary Applications. 15, 2, p. 262-285 24 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedPresent day: Tides in a changing climate
    Wilmes, S.-B., Ward, S. & Uehara, K., 2022, A Journey Through Tides. Green, M. & Duarte, J. (eds.). Elsevier, p. 185-230
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
  • PublishedWhy is there a tide?
    Ward, S., Bowers, D., Green, M. & Wilmes, S.-B., 7 Oct 2022, A Journey Through Tides. Green, M. & Duarte, J. (eds.). Elsevier, p. 81-113
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2021

  • PublishedClimate change accelerates range expansion of the invasive non-native species, the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas.
    King, N., Wilmes, S.-B., Smyth, D., Tinker, J., Robins, P., Thorpe, J., Jones, L. & Malham, S., Feb 2021, In: ICES Journal of Marine Science. 78, 1, p. 70-81 70-81.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedEnhanced vertical mixing in the glacial ocean inferred from sedimentary carbon isotopes
    Wilmes, S.-B., Green, M. & Schmittner, A., 18 Aug 2021, In: Communications Earth and Environment. 2, 166.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2020

  • PublishedFine-scale seascape genomics of an exploited marine species, the common cockle Cerastoderma edule, using a multi-modelling approach
    Coscia, I., Wilmes, S.-B., Ironside, J. E., Goward Brown, A., O'Dea, E., Malham, S., McDevitt, A. & Robins, P., Sept 2020, In: Evolutionary Applications. 13, 8, p. 1854-1867
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedMulti-century impacts of ice sheet retreat on sea level and ocean tides in Hudson Bay
    Hayden, A.-M., Gomez, N., Wilmes, S.-B. & Green, M., Nov 2020, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 125, 11
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedSummer and Winter Marine Heatwaves Favor an Invasive Over Native Seaweeds
    Atkinson, J., King, N. G., Wilmes, S. B. & Moore, P. J., Dec 2020, In: European Journal of Phycology. 56, 6, p. 1591-1600
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedThe Tides They Are A-Changin': A Comprehensive Review of Past and Future Nonastronomical Changes in Tides, Their Driving Mechanisms, and Future Implications: A comprehensive review of past and future non‐astronomical changes in tides, their driving mechanisms and future implications
    Haigh, I. D., Pickering, M. D., Green, J. A. M., Arbic, B. K., Arns, A., Dangendorf, S., Hill, D. F., Horsburgh, K., Howard, T., Idier, D., Jay, D. A., Jaenicke, L., Lee, S. B., Mueller, M., Schindelegger, M., Talke, S. A., Wilmes, S.-B. & Woodworth, P. L., Mar 2020, In: Reviews of Geophysics. 58, 1, e2018RG000636.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

2019

  • PublishedGlacial ice sheet extent effects on modeled tidal mixing and the global overturning circulation
    Wilmes, S.-B., Schmittner, A. & Green, M., Aug 2019, In: Paleoceanography. 34, 8, p. 1437-1454
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedThe impact of sea-level rise on tidal characteristics around Australia
    Harker, A., Green, M., Schindelegger, M. & Wilmes, S.-B., 19 Feb 2019, In: Ocean Science. 15, 1, p. 147-159
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2018

  • PublishedCan we model the effect of observed sea level rise on tides?
    Schindelegger, M., Green, M., Wilmes, S. B. & Haigh, I. D., 5 Jul 2018, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 123, 7, p. 4593-4609
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2017

  • PublishedGlobal tidal impacts of large-scale ice-sheet collapses
    Wilmes, S.-B., Green, M., Gomez, M., Lau, H. & Rippeth, T., Nov 2017, In: Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans. 122, 11, p. 8354-8370
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2016

  • PublishedEffects of future sea-level rise on tidal processes on the Patagonian Shelf
    Carless, S., Green, M., Pelling, H. & Wilmes, S.-B., Nov 2016, In: Journal of Marine Systems. 163, November 2016, p. 113-124
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2015

  • PublishedGlacial ocean overturning intensified by tidal mixing in a global circulation model
    Schmittner, A., Green, J. A. & Wilmes, S. B., 22 May 2015, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 42, 10, p. 4014-4022
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2014

  • PublishedThe evolution of tides and tidal dissipation over the past 21,000 years
    Wilmes, S. B. & Green, J. A. M., 7 Jul 2014, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 119, 7, p. 4083-4100
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2012

  • PublishedClimate variability of the mid- and high-latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere in ensemble simulations from 1500 to 2000 AD
    Wilmes, S. B., Raible, C. C. & Stocker, T. F., 2012, In: Climate of the Past. 8, 1, p. 373-390
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Projects

  • Travel grant to Department of Physics and Astronomy, Astronomy and Space Physics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden for Sophie Wilmes

    01/06/2020 – 31/08/2022 (Finished)

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