Professor Mark E Inall

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Associate Director for Research and Principal Investigator in Physical Oceanography

I studied physics at Edinburgh University, polar oceanography at Cambridge University, and physical oceanography at Southampton University. I then spent three post-doctoral years at University of Wales, Bangor studying the mixing generated by non-linear internal tides.

I moved to SAMS in 1998 and now head the Physcis Group and chair the Science Committee. I was on the original core team which setup the BSc (Hons) Marine Science programme and now lead and teach a fourth year module in Coastal and Shelf Sea Dynamics. I have many years experience in measuring turbulence in oceanic and coastal systems and publish widely on measurements of turbulence made on the ocean margins and in shelf seas. In recent years I have established an ocean turbulence measurement facility at the Institute.

Research interests:

Internal wave generation by tidal flow over topography
Deep Sea (Wyville-Thomson Ridge)
Shelf Sea (Malin Shelf, Iberian Shelf)
Coastal (NW European and Arctic fjords)
Internal wave energy decay and associated vertical mixing in above environments

At the Scottish Marine Institute I am a member of the ...

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Recent publications

Tett, P.,Portilla, E., Gillibrand, P.A. and M. Inall (2010) Carrying and assimilative capacities: the ACExR-LESV model for sea-loch aquaculture, Aquaculture in press
Gillibrand, P.A., Inall, M.E., Tett, P and E. Portilla (2009). A Box Model of Seasonal Exchange and mixing in Restricted Exchange Environments: The ACExR Model. Submitted to Continental Shelf Research
Inall, M. E., P. A. Gillibrand, (2009). "The Physics of Fjords: A Review", Royal Geological Society of London Special publications, in press
Inall, M. E. (2009). "Internal wave induced dispersion and mixing on a sloping boundary." Geophysical Research Letters. doi:10.1029/2008GL036849
Inall, M. E., P. A. Gillibrand, C. R. Griffiths, N. MacDougal and K. Blackwell (2009). "On the oceanographic variability of the North-West European Shelf to the West of Scotland." Journal of Marine Systems. 77, 210-226. doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2007.12.012
Portilla, E., P. Tett, P. A. Gillibrand and M. E. Inall (2009). "Description and sensitivity analysis for the LESV model: Water quality variables and the balance of organisms in a region of restricted exchange." Ecological Modelling. doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.05.004
Sherwin, T. J., C. R. Griffiths, M. E. Inall and W. R. Turrell (2008). "Quantifying the overflow across the Wyville Thomson Ridge into the Rockall Trough." Deep Sea Research I 55: 396-404