Marine scientist
Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology
Noam Vogt-Vincent
The dynamics of the ocean and its ecosystems are closely coupled over a broad range of timescales. I use numerical models to investigate these physical and biological interactions in the past, present and future, to improve our ability to predict and manage future environmental change in the context of coral reef systems.
Introduction
I’m a NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology. My research combines numerical modelling and physical oceanography with marine ecology and geoscience to improve our understanding of how physical environmental change shapes our living ocean. I am particularly interested in coral reef systems, because these extraordinary ecosystems face a potentially existential threat from climate change, so there is a particularly urgent need to develop predictive capacity for how coral reefs respond to environmental change. I am interested in global environmental change, but my favourite coral reef system is the Ryukyu Arc in Japan. My previous research projects include hindcasting the habitability of Japan for coral reef formation during the Last Glacial Maximum, mapping coral reef connectivity across the southwest Indian Ocean, identifying sources of marine pollution for remote islands, and predicting the potential for tropical coral range expansion under future climate change.
I studied Earth Sciences as an undergraduate at the University of Oxford, and then continued at Oxford to complete my DPhil in Oceanography (my thesis was titled Marine dispersal in the southwest Indian Ocean). In 2023, I moved to the Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology as a NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow in Professor Lisa McManus’ Marine Ecological Theory Lab.