Professor Simon Neill
Professor in Physical Oceanography
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Affiliations
Contact info
Room: Room 212, Marine Centre Wales Phone: 01248 383938
Email: s.p.neill@bangor.ac.uk
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I am professor in physical oceanography, specializing in ocean renewable energy: characterizing the wave and tidal energy resource, understanding wave-tide interaction, optimizing grid integration of arrays of marine renewable energy devices, and quantifying the environmental impacts of extracting energy from the oceans. I am founder and course director of an MSc in Marine Renewable Energy, and committee member of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), working on revising IEC Technical Specification 62600-201: Tidal Energy Resource Assessment and Characterization. I am a member of the editorial board of the Elsevier journal Renewable Energy, have written a textbook on marine energy "Fundamentals of Ocean Renewable Energy: Generating Electricity from the Sea", and am lead sediment scientist at FORCE (Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy). I also have other shelf sea research interests, including palaeoceanography, sediment dynamics, and simulating the dispersal of marine organisms and microplastics.
I currently lead a wide range of research projects at Bangor University, including:
- NERC – SE Asia Plastics. South East Asia MArine Plastics (SEAmap): Reduction, Control and Mitigation of Marine Plastic Pollution in the Philippines. Neill SP (PI), Hiddink JG, Robins PE, Lewis MJ, Skov MW, Dunn CP (School of Natural Sciences), Taboada E (University of San Carlos, Philippines); £708,034. 2020-2023.
- European Regional Development Fund. Smart Efficient Energy Centre (SEEC) (£7M) Simon Neill (PI), Iestyn Pierce & Graham Ormondroyd. 2019-2023.
Research Areas
- Published
The Influence of Intra-Array Wake Dynamics on Depth-Averaged Kinetic Tidal Turbine Energy Extraction Simulations
Piano, M., Robins, P., Davies, A. & Neill, S., 22 Oct 2018, In: Energies. 11, 10, 2852.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The benefits of combining coupled wave-current models with SAR observations for the interpretation of ocean-surface currents.
Macklin, T., Wolf, J., Wakelin, S., Gommenginger, C., Ferrier, G., Elliott, A. J. & Neill, S. P., 1 Jan 2006.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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The benefits of combining coupled wave-current models with SAR observations for the interpretation of ocean-surface currents.
Macklin, T., Wolf, J., Wakelin, S., Gommenginger, C., Ferrier, G., Elliott, A. J. & Neill, S. P., 23 Jan 2006.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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The challenges of constraining shelf sea tidal models using seabed sediment grain size as a proxy for tidal currents
Ward, S., Scourse, J., Yokoyama, Y. & Neill, S., Dec 2020, In: Continental Shelf Research. 205, 104165.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
The formation of headland/island sandbanks.
Neill, S. & Scourse, J. D., 15 Oct 2009, In: Continental Shelf Research. 29, 18, p. 2167-2177Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The future of ocean renewable energy
Neill, S., 1 Dec 2023, Living With Climate Change. Letcher, T. (ed.). Elsevier, p. 449-464Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The impact of tidal stream turbines on large-scale sediment dynamics.
Neill, S. P., Litt, E. J., Couch, S. J. & Davies, A. G., 1 Dec 2009, In: Renewable Energy. 34, 12, p. 2803-2812Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The impacts of tidal energy development and sea-level rise in the Gulf of Maine
Kresning, B., Hashemi, M. R., Neill, S. P., Green, M. & Xue, H., 15 Nov 2019, In: Energy. 187, 115942.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The influence of waves on the tidal kinetic energy resource at a tidal stream energy site
Guillou, N., Chapalain, G. & Neill, S., 15 Oct 2016, In: Applied Energy. 180, October, p. 402-415Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The influence of wind gustiness on estimating the wave power resource
Goward Brown, A., Neill, S. & Lewis, M., 10 Nov 2013, In: International Journal of Marine Energy. 3-4, p. e1-e10Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review