Geoff Stanley - Personal Pages Index

Geoff Stanley
E-mail: [email protected]
Atmospheric, Oceanic, & Planetary Physics
Clarendon Laboratory
Parks Road
Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK
Tel.: +44 (0)1865 272088
www.climate.uvic.ca/people/gstanley
Home address:
Linacre College
St. Cross Road
Oxford, OX1 3JA, UK
CITIZENSHIP
Canadian
EDUCATION
2013 – Present
Doctor of Philosophy
Atmospheric, Oceanic, & Planetary Physics, University of Oxford
Supervisor: Professor David Marshall
2011 – 2013
Master of Science
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria
Thesis:
From winds to eddies to diapycnal mixing of the deep ocean:
the abyssal meridional overturning circulation driven by the surface
wind-stress.
Supervisors: Dr. Oleg Saenko and Professor Andrew Weaver
2006 – 2011
Bachelor of Mathematics
Mathematical Physics & Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
Dean's Honours List, With Distinction, Double Major
PUBLICATIONS
Peer Reviewed
Stanley G. J. and O. A. Saenko, 2014: Bottom-Enhanced Diapycnal Mixing Driven by
Mesoscale Eddies: Sensitivity to Wind Energy Supply. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 44, 68-85.
In Progress
Jackson D. M. and G. J. Stanley. Derivation of a straightening formula in the quantized
universal enveloping algebra of sl2. For submission to Transactions of the American
Mathematical Society.
PRESENTATIONS
Stanley G.J. and O. A. Saenko, From Winds to Eddies to Diapycnal Mixing over Topography:
Driving the Abyssal Meridional Overturning Circulation, National Oceanography Centre, March
19, 2014. Southampton, UK. (Invited Talk)
Stanley G. J. and O. A. Saenko, Diapycnal mixing parameterized by energy release from
mesoscale eddies, IAHS-IAPSO-IASPEI Joint Assembly, Abstract Number P03S3.06, July 22
– 26, 2013. Gothenburg, Sweden. (Talk)
Stanley G. J. and O. A. Saenko, On the Energetics of Oceanic Mesoscale Eddies and their
Parameterization Modified to Induce Diapycnal Mixing, Fall AGU meeting, December 3—7,
2012. San Francisco, CA: USA. (Poster)
Stanley G. J. and O. A. Saenko, On the Energetics of Oceanic Mesoscale Eddies and their
Parameterization Modified to Induce Diapycnal Mixing, Graduate Climate Conference, October
26 – 28, 2012. Pack Forest, WA: USA. (Poster)
RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS
Summer 2010 – Research Assistant
Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo
Project:
Straightening formulas in the quantized universal enveloping Algebra sl2
Supervisor: Prof. David M. Jackson
Summer 2008 – Research Assistant
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo
Project:
Numerical simulation of entropy evolution in merging galaxy clusters
Supervisor: Prof. Michael Balogh
Summer 2007 – Research Assistant
Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
Project:
Numerical simulation of a superconducting flux qubit and the fidelity of its
quantum state
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Wilhelm
Summer 2006 – Research Assistant
Richard Lewar Centre for Excellence, Heart & Stroke Lab, University of Toronto
Project:
Examining the electrophysiological structure of cardiac sodium ion
channels
Supervisor: Prof. Peter Backx
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Fall 2012 – Oceans and Atmospheres
Lab Instructor under Duncan Johannessen
EOS 110, U of Victoria
Fall 2011 – Earth System Modelling
Marking under Prof. Adam Monahan
EOS 225, U of Victoria
Fall 2007 – Advanced Calculus 1
Marking under Prof. Brian Forrest
MATH 140, U of Waterloo
SELECTED AWARDS
2013
Clarendon Fund Scholarship
2012
Gagnon Memorial Scholarship
2011
NSERC Julie Payette Research Scholarship
U of Oxford
U of Victoria
Canada
(to the top 24 applicants for MSc funding)
2011
K.D. Fryer Gold Medal
U of Waterloo
(to one top Math graduate also exemplifying good student citizenship)
2006 – 2010
2006 – 2010
2007, 2008, 2010
2009
2008
Rene Descartes Scholarship
Queen Elizabeth II Aim for the Top Scholarship
NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards
Robert Schaefer Memorial Award
President’s Research Award
U of Waterloo
Provincial
Canada
U of Waterloo
U of Waterloo
MEMBERSHIPS
2012
American Geophysical Union – Student Member
2011
AAAS – Student Member
EXTRACURRICULAR EXPERIENCE
2013 – present Graduate Student Representative
Atmospheric, Oceanic, & Planetary Physics, U of Oxford
2012 – 2013
Co-Coordinator of Café Scientifique, a grassroots public science series
Faculty of Science, University of Victoria
2010
Undergraduate Representative to the Chair Selection Committee
Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo
2010
Conference Volunteer
Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference
University of Waterloo
2008 – 2010
Residence Don, University of Waterloo Housing and Residence
Leader and role model to over 100 students for 3 terms
Awarded ―Rookie of the Term‖
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Extensive: Fortran, MATLAB, Ferret, Ruby, Linux, Mac.
Moderate: Windows, Scheme, Java, Mathematica, Maple, R.
PERSONAL INTERESTS
Bicycle touring (10,000km and counting)
Soccer, badminton, squash, rock climbing, Ultimate, backcountry canoeing and hiking
Vegan cooking, food preservation, brewing, organic gardening, sustainable living
British folk music