Room: 107 Marine Centre Wales           Phone: 01248 383978

Email: sophie.ward@bangor.ac.uk

Web: ResearchGate;

I am a physical oceanographer with special interest in ocean modelling. I have experience of applying models to a broad range of research topics including marine renewable energy, past climate conditions, marine biosecurity and the aquaculture industry.

I worked for several years as a physical oceanographer on the SEACAMS 2 project, conducting collaborative RD&I projects with the marine renewable energy sector in Wales.  I am currently a numerical modeller working on the ECOSTRUCTURE and Cockles projects, as well as the Shellfish Centre and Menai Offshore Subsurface Shellfish Systems projects, which are focussed on the shellfish industry around the Welsh Coast.

I graduated with a degree in Natural Sciences (Physics and Environmental Science) from the University of Bath in 2007, after which I worked as a Graduate Environmental Consultant in North Wales. I then undertook a MSc in Applied Physical Oceanography, followed by a PhD in Physical Oceanography, both at Bangor University. The focus of my PhD project was on simulating changes in Northwest European shelf sea tides due to sea-level rise since the Last Glacial Maximum, and exploring the use of seabed sediment grain size as a proxy for past tidal current conditions. 

Particular areas of research interest include: numerical modelling (physical, biophysical and biogeochemical/ecosystem), sediment dynamics, sea-level rise and climate change, marine renewable energy.

• PhD: A new proxy for constraining palaeotidal simulations of the northwest European shelf seas
  Bangor University, 2010–2015
• Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCertHE)
  2013
• MSc: Applied Physical Oceanography
  Bangor University, 2009–2011
• BSc: Natural Sciences
  University of Bath, 2004–2007

I have a range of research interests in which PhD projects could be developed. Please contact me by email in the first instance regarding any of the following areas:

• Tidal modelling (past, present or future)
• Marine renewable energy
• Dispersal of marine organisms (including invasive species and aquaculture)
• Ocean biogeochemical modelling.

2022

• CyhoeddwydTidal Stream Energy
  Ward, S., 2022, Comprehensive Renewable Energy. 2 gol. Oxford: Elsevier, Cyfrol 8. t. 104-122 (Comprehensive Renewable Energy).
  Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod

2021

• Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
• CyhoeddwydTides
  Ward, S., 2021, 30-Second Oceans: 50 key ideas about the sea's importance to life on earth. Green, M. & Lenn, Y-D. (gol.). The Ivy Press
  Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod

2020

• Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
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2019

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2018

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2017

• Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
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2016

• Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
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2015

• Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
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2013

• Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
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2012

• Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException

• NRN-LCEE Returning Fellowship

  01/02/2018 – 01/08/2019 (Wedi gorffen)

  Disgrifiad

  The NRN-LCEE was a bold, innovative pan-Wales initiative for Welsh research funded by Welsh Government and the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) as part of Sêr Cymru 1; comprising of partners from Bangor, Aberystwyth, Cardiff, South Wales and Swansea Universities, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology at Bangor, British Geological Survey Wales, and UK MetOffice. The NRN-LCEE aimed to promote excellent collaborative and interdisciplinary research within Wales into the sustainable use of natural resources for the provision of energy, water, food, and other ecosystem services; and explicitly encouraged interdisciplinary research across departments, universities, research centres, industry and third sector parties. As such, the NRN-LCEE was the catalyst to bring a diverse set of talented researchers and partners into new collaborations, in order to conduct innovative research that was highly pertinent on an international research agenda.

  Cysylltau:

• ADCP deployment

  01/04/2017 – 31/05/2017 (Wedi gorffen)

Challenge Prize, Research Link Climate Change (British Council) £9,795. Mapping marine litter pathways and sea-level rise in Indonesia (Ward, S. and Christie, D.)

Nature Networks Fund. SIARC (Sharks Inspiring Action and Research with Communities) £18,617 to Bangor (Robins P., Ward S.)

Contract research: secured £6,259 industry-sponsored research project.

PRIMaRE Early Career Researcher Travel Grant, for attendance at Marine Evidence 2019 conference.

Bangor University Early Career Researcher Award: secured the maximum award amount of £1500 for developing a project titled Changing tides: implications of palaeo- and future tidal-range changes in eastern Canada.

NRN-LCEE Returning Fellowship: secured £6000 from the National Research Network for Low Carbon Energy and Environment, available to academics returning from a period of leave (e.g. parental leave) for developing new collaborations for research.

Contract research: secured €76,000 industry-sponsored research project.

JSPS Summer School 2013 Fellowship (British Council): selected to attend a 10-week research placement funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. My host institute was the Center for East Asian Ocean-Atmosphere Research, Kyushu University (June-August 2013).

£6969 grant awarded by the NERC Radiocarbon Facility (December 2012).

Summer School on Fluid Dynamics of Sustainability and the Environment (formerly GEFD): bursary for half of the course fees, DAMTP, University of Cambridge (September 2012).