Nine-Zero and the Changing Ocean

Nine tenths of the extra energy captured as part of a changing climate is captured by the ocean.  Associate Professor Craig Stevens will talk about what this means.

Craig Stevens is a physical oceanographer with a joint position at NIWA (NZ National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research) and the University of Auckland. With training at the Universities of Adelaide, Western Australia and British Columbia, his research focus is on the fate of energy injected into the planet’s oceans at celestial scales (tides, solar heating) and how energy exchange processes affect us all through influences on biological, ecological and/or physical transformation. Field expeditions have taken him from Cook Strait to Antarctica; from water-filled mine pits in Canada to tidal turbines in the U.K.; from inland seas in Europe to the Southern Ocean. Stevens has been successful in both Marsden Fund (NZ basic science funding) supported work and applied industrial research. He has a high outreach profile in New Zealand, helping to explain the value of the oceans around New Zealand to the public and is the current President of the New Zealand Association of Scientists.