Sam Hartharn-Evans

Sam Hartharn-Evans is a Research Fellow at Northumbria University in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, focusing on cryosphere-ocean interactions through laboratory experiments and numerical modeling. His work investigates ice shelves, sea ice, and buoyant meltwater plumes in polar oceans.

• Education
  • BSc in Marine Biology and Oceanography (Bangor University, 2018)
  • MSc in Physical Oceanography (Bangor University, 2019)
  • PhD in Applied Mathematics (Newcastle University, 2023)

His research integrates fluid dynamics with environmental science, particularly studying internal solitary waves' behavior in stratified water columns and their impact on ice structures. Recent publications analyze wave-ice interactions, stratified shear instability, and nonlinear processes in geophysical fluids using both experimental and computational approaches.

Current projects involve replicating ice shelf meltwater plumes in a 7m flume tank and conducting direct numerical simulations at laboratory scale. His work bridges oceanography, geophysics, and cryospheric science, with applications to climate modeling and polar environmental change.