Simon Higginson

Department of Oceanography
Dalhousie University
1355 Oxford Street
PO BOX 15000
Halifax NS  B3H 4R2

Phone: (902) 494-7060
   Fax: (902) 494-3877
Email: simon.higginson@dal.ca
Webpage: www.simonhigginson.ca

Education Background

• BSc - University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

Research Interests

• Low frequency variability of the ocean circulation
• Ocean dynamic topography
• Satellite altimetry and geodesy

Higginson, S., K.R. Thompson, J. Huang, M. Véronneau, and D.G. Wright - 2011 - The mean surface circulation of the North Atlantic subpolar gyre: A comparison of estimates derived from new gravity and oceanographic measurements - J. Geophys. Res., 116, C08016, doi:10.1029/2010JC006877

Higginson, S., K.R. Thompson and Y. Liu - 2009 - Estimating ocean climatologies for short periods: A simple technique for removing the effect of eddies from temperature and salinity profiles - Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L19602, doi:10.1029/2009GL039647

Kienast, M., G. MacIntyre, N. Dubois, S. Higginson, C. Normandeau, C. R. Chazen, and T. D. Herbert - 2012 - Alkenone unsaturation in surface sediments from the eastern equatorial Pacific: Implications for SST reconstructions - Paleoceanography, doi:10.1029/2011PA002254, in press