I am a physical oceanographer with interest in turbulence and ocean mixing.

As an observational oceanographer, I make measurements of ocean currents to understand what drives turbulence and mixing in the ocean, including physical processes, such as waves, tides, inertial oscillations, internal waves. 

My research seeks to answer diverse questions such as:

• How will the vertical mixing and heat fluxes in the Arctic Ocean change?
• What drives the nutrient fluxes which determine primary production?
• How does ocean mixing affect CO2 absorption from the atmosphere?
• What are the forces on tidal turbines due to marine turbulence?

Room: 207 Craig Mair

Phone: 01248 382274

Email: ben.lincoln@bangor.ac.uk

ResearchGate Profile

• PhD: Themocline mixing in shelf seas
  2013
• MSc: Applied Physical Oceanography
  2007
• BSc: Physics
  University of Surrey, 2003

2024

• PublishedA low-cost, high-fidelity converging-beam Doppler instrument for measuring velocity and turbulence at tidal energy sites
  Lake, T., Glasby, D., Horrillo-Caraballo, J., Togneri, M., Masters, I., Austin, M. & Lincoln, B., 31 Jul 2024, In: International Marine Energy Journal. 7, 1, p. 11-24
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedClimate change is depleting deep sea oxygen, but tides are helping to keep the ocean healthy
  Rippeth, T. & Lincoln, B., 22 Apr 2024, The Conversation.
  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
• Accepted/In pressEnhanced bed shear stress and mixing in the tidal wake of an offshore wind turbine monopile
  Austin, M., Unsworth, C., Van Landeghem, K. & Lincoln, B., 6 Nov 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Ocean Science. 17 p., egusphere-2024-2056.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedThe deepwater oxygen deficit in stratified shallow seas is mediated by diapycnal mixing
  Rippeth, T., Shen, S., Lincoln, B., Scannell, B., Meng, X., Hopkins, J. & Sharples, J., 11 Apr 2024, In: Nature Communications. 15, 3136, 1 p., 15:3136.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2023

• PublishedField measurements of cable self-burial in a sandy marine environment
  Unsworth, C., Austin, M., Van Landeghem, K., Couldrey, A., Whitehouse, R., Lincoln, B., Doole, S. & Worrall, P., Sept 2023, In: Coastal Engineering. 184, 22 p., 104309.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2022

• PublishedAnthropogenic Mixing in Seasonally Stratified Shelf Seas by Offshore Wind Farm Infrastructure
  Dorrell, R., Lloyd, C., Lincoln, B., Rippeth, T., Taylor, J., Caulfield, C.-C., Sharples, J., Polton, J., Scannell, B., Greaves, D., Hall, R. & Simpson, J., 22 Mar 2022, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 9, 830927.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
• PublishedIncreasing nutrient fluxes and mixing regime changes in the eastern Arctic Ocean
  Shultz, K., Lincoln, B., Povazhnyy, V., Rippeth, T., Lenn, Y.-D., Janout, M., Alkire, M., Scannell, B. & Torres-Valdes, S., 16 Mar 2022, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 49, 5, e2021GL096152.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedWind turbines can breathe new life into our warming seas
  Lincoln, B., Rippeth, T. & Dorrell, R., 4 Mar 2022, The Conversation.
  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

2019

• PublishedThe Increasing Prevalence of High Frequency Internal Waves in an Arctic Ocean With Declining Sea Ice Cover
  Rippeth, T., Vlasenko, V., Stashchuk, N., Koslov, I., Scannell, B., Green, M., Lincoln, B. & Lenn, Y.-D., 11 Nov 2019, ASME 2019 38th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, OMAE2019-96621
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

2017

• PublishedTidal conversion and mixing poleward of the critical latitude (an Arctic case study)
  Rippeth, T., Vlasenko, V., Stashchuk, N., Scannell, B., Green, M., Lincoln, B. & Bacon, S., 28 Dec 2017, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 44, 24, p. 12349-12357
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2016

• PublishedSurface mixed layer deepening through wind shear alignment in a seasonally stratified shallow sea
  Lincoln, B., Rippeth, T. & Simpson, J., Aug 2016, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 121, 8, p. 6021-6034
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedWind-driven mixing at intermediate depths in an ice-free Arctic Ocean
  Lincoln, B., Rippeth, T., Lenn, Y.-D., Timmermans, M.-L., Willaims, W. & Bacon, S., 28 Sept 2016, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 43, 18, p. 9749-9756
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2015

• PublishedTide-mediated warming of Arctic halocline by Atlantic heat fluxes over rough topography
  Rippeth, T. P., Lincoln, B. J., Lenn, Y. D., Green, J. A., Sundfjord, A. & Bacon, S., Mar 2015, In: Nature Geoscience. 8, 3, p. 191-194
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2014

• PublishedImpact of vertical mixing on sea surface pCO2 in temperate seasonally stratified shelf seas
  Rippeth, T. P., Lincoln, B. J., Kennedy, H. A., Palmer, M., Sharples, J. & Williams, C. A., 20 Jun 2014, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 119, 6, p. 3868-3882
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2011

• PublishedInternal seiche modes and bottom boundary-layer dissipation in a temperate lake from acoustic measurements
  Simpson, J. H., Wiles, P. J. & Lincoln, B. J., 1 May 2011, In: Limnology and Oceanography. 56, 5, p. 1893-1906
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Anthropogenic mixing by turbulent wakes in stratified waters

  01/01/2021 – 01/08/2022 (Finished)