Dr Peter Robins
Senior Lecturer in Physical Oceanography
Affiliations
Contact info
Office location: Room 115, Marine Centre Wales, Menai Bridge
(Tel: 01248 383961)
Email: p.robins@bangor.ac.uk
Author profiles: Google Scholar | Researchgate
I'm a Senior Lecturer in Physical Oceanography at the School of Ocean Sciences. My Degree in Mathematics and Physical Oceanography (2003) and Ph.D on internal tides (2008) were also from Bangor University. Since then, I've been interested in a wide range of human and biological impacts of coastal dynamics and change, with applications to coastal hazards (flooding, water quality degradation, pollution and public health risk), coastal morphology, marine population dynamics and connectivity, and marine renewable energy resource and impact studies.
My research generally involves developing computer models that simulate coastal processes, whether this is realistic representations of the past, future climate predictions, or hypothetical scenarios such as simulating flood mitigation options or the impact of tidal-stream turbines on sediment transport. I'm especiallly intersted in estuaries because of the so many complex processes occuring here that affect communities and wildlife, and as there is still much to discover such as how extreme river flows and sea levels interact to exacerbate flooding, or how sewage disperses towards coastal beaches and shellfish beds. I enjoy working with a wide range of scientists across different diciplines, with climate modellers to ensure their projections are relevant for coastal impact, and with coastal policy makers so that our research has real world outcomes.
- 2014
- Published
Future variability of solute transport in a macrotidal estuary
Robins, P. E., Lewis, M. J., Simpson, J. H., Howlett, E. R. & Malham, S. K., 13 Oct 2014, In: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 151, p. 88-99Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Impact of tidal-stream arrays in relation to the natural variability of sedimentary processes
Robins, P. E., Neill, S. P. & Lewis, M. J., 8 Aug 2014, In: Renewable Energy. 72, p. 311-321Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Interactive visual analytics of hydrodynamic flux for the coastal zone
George, R. L., Robins, P. E., Davies, A. G., Ritsos, P. D. & Roberts, J. C., 7 May 2014, In: Environmental Earth Sciences. 71, 10, p. 3733-3766Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
The potential impact of climate change on the infectious diseases of commercially important shellfish populations in the Irish Sea—a review
Robins, P. E., Malham, S., Rowley, A. F., Cross, M. E., Culloty, S. C., Lynch, S. A., Mackenzie, C. L., Morgan, E., O'Riordan, R. M., Robbins, P. E., Smith, A. L., Thrupp, T. J., Vogan, C. L., Wootton, E. C. & Malham, S. K., 1 May 2014, In: ICES Journal of Marine Science. 71, 4, p. 741-759Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2013
- Published
Identification of genetically and oceanographically distinct blooms of jellyfish
Lee, P. L., Dawson, M. N., Neill, S. P., Robins, P. E., Houghton, J. D., Doyle, T. K. & Hays, G. C., 1 Mar 2013, In: Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 10, 80, p. 20120920Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Physical and biological controls on larval dispersal and connectivity in a highly energetic shelf sea
Robins, P. E., Neill, S. P., Gimenez, L., Jenkins, S. R. & Malham, S. K., 1 Mar 2013, In: Limnology and Oceanography. 58, 2, p. 505-524Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2012
- Published
Interactive Visual Analytics of Coastal Oceanographic Simulation data
George, R., Robins, P., Davies, A. & Roberts, J. C., 14 Oct 2012. 2 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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Modelled larval dispersal and measured gene flow: seascape genetics of the common cockle Cerastoderma edule in the southern Irish Sea
Coscia, I., Robins, P. E., Porter, J. S., Malham, S. K. & Ironside, J. E., 1 Sept 2012, In: Conservation Genetics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
A numerical study of marine larval dispersal in the presence of an axial convergent front
Robins, P., Neill, S. & Gimenez Noya, J., 20 Mar 2012, In: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 100, p. 172-185Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Biogeochemical functioning of grazed estuarine tidal marshes along a salinity gradient
Dausse, A., Garbutt, A., Norman, L., Papadimitriou, S., Jones, L. M., Robins, P. E. & Thomas, D. N., 20 Mar 2012, In: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 100, p. 83-92Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review