Dr Carl Spingys
Biography
Dr Carl Spingys is a physical oceanographer with a wide range of expertise on the utilisation of observational techniques to make inferences about the processes and structure of the ocean on a range of scales. His particular focus has been on pushing the capability of existing oceanographic equipment to investigate hard to observe processes. During his PhD at the University of Liverpool he developed a methodology to use traditional ocean moorings to make observations of internal tide Stokes' drift, which had previously only been observed utilising targetted Lagrangian floats. Following his PhD he worked for several years as a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton continuing to make novel and creative use of observational tools to provide new insight. This has included: the first observational quantification of the role of eddies in supply nutrients to the North Atlantic subtropical gyre; observing the transformation by highly efficient turbulence of bottom water as it spreads in a boundary current from Antarctica; and the role of shear generated convective mixing in driving upwelling along ocean boundaries. He moved to NOC in 2023 to work on taking distributed optical fibre sensing technology and applying it to oceanographic problems. This has included a key role in the development and set up of the GAUSS lab with the NOC Optical Interrogator Unit and associated processing servers. He has shown the potential of optical fibres to provide data on near field parameters including the ocean flow and turbulent scale processes. Most recently he has developing a subsurface version of the Optical Interrogator that can be deployed on a wider range of platforms, including moorings and autonomous vehicles.
His service to the wider oceanographic community has included lead chairing sessions at leading international oceanographic conferences; reviewing for many of the leading journals in the field; and providing expert reviews for the Australian National Marine Facility. He has also supported many field campaigns (42 weeks at sea), both focussed on physical oceanography and interdisciplinary cruises, including leading the physics team on a cruise and leading watches. Through this he has gain experience with many of the typical tools of oceanographic research including: CTD, LADCP, moorings, vertical microstructure profilers, towed instruments.
Please see my publications at the google scholar link below:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=X_tdJrcAAAAJ
Publications
Naveira Garabato, Alberto C.; Spingys, Carl P.; Lucas, Andrew J.; Dotto, Tiago S. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0565-6941; Wild, Christian T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4586-1704; Tyler, Scott W.; Scambos, Ted A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4268-6322; Kratt, Christopher B.; Cappelli, Giuseppe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4489-9791; Williams, Ethan F.; Claret, Mariona; Glover, Hannah E.; Wengrove, Meagan E.; Smith, Madison M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2259-042X; Baker, Michael G.; Marra, Giuseppe; Tamussino, Max; Feng, Zitong; Lloyd, David; Taylor, Liam; Mazur, Mikael; Mangriotis, Maria-Daphne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1765-9149; Micallef, Aaron; Ward Neale, Jennifer; Godin, Oleg A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4599-2149; Alford, Matthew H.; Gregory, Emma P. M.; Clare, Michael A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-3878; Shiri, Hamid; Ruiz Angulo, Angel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7292-3002; Gunn, Kathryn L.; Moat, Ben I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8676-7779; Yeo, Isobel A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9306-3446; Loureiro, Afonso ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3762-586X; Silvano, Alessandro ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6441-1496; Hartog, Arthur; Belal, Mohammad ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5175-3158.
2026
Distributed optical fibre sensing in physical oceanography: emergence and future prospects.
Ocean Science, 22 (2).
1129-1167.
10.5194/os-22-1129-2026
2026
Article
Naveira Garabato, Alberto C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6071-605X; Spingys, Carl P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6220-3047; Castro, Bieito Fernández ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7797-854X; Couto, Nicole ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5330-9592; Drake, Henri F.; Forryan, Alexander; Gao, Zhiyuan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2726-7664; Ma, Yuchen; Mercier, Herlé ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1940-617X; Messias, Marie‐José; Ruan, Xiaozhou ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1240-1584; Voet, Gunnar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1975-186X; Wynne‐Cattanach, Bethan L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4960-2419; Ferrari, Raffaele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1895-4294; Alford, Matthew H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6318-0737.
2025
Connecting mixing to upwelling along the ocean's sloping boundary.
Geophysical Research Letters, 52 (22).
10.1029/2025GL119186
2025
Article
Oglethorpe, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-8956-1423; Castro, B. Fernández ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7797-854X; Spingys, C. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6220-3047; Naveira Garabato, A. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6071-605X; Williams, R. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3180-7558.
2025
The role of mesoscale eddy stirring and microscale turbulence in sustaining biological production in the subtropical gyres.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 39 (9).
10.1029/2024GB008180
2025
Article
Wang, Xingchi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0401-4915; Silvano, Alessandro ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6441-1496; Firing, Yvonne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3640-3974; Fernández Castro, Bieito ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7797-854X; Spingys, Carl P.; Dotto, Tiago S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0565-6941; Clement, Louis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455; Holland, Paul R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8370-289X; Naveira Garabato, Alberto C..
2025
Turbulent vertical heat flux under Antarctic on-shelf sea ice intensified by the Amundsen Sea Undercurrent.
Communications Earth & Environment, 6, 613.
12, pp.
10.1038/s43247-025-02598-2
2025
Article
Harmon, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0731-768X; Belal, Mohammad ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5175-3158; Mangriotis, Maria-Daphne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1765-9149; Spingys, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6220-3047; Rychert, Catherine A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5071-793X.
2025
Distributed acoustic sensing along a shallow water energy cable.
IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering.
1-10.
10.1109/JOE.2024.3523363
2025
Article
Alford, Matthew H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6318-0737; Wynne-Cattanach, Bethan; Le Boyer, Arnaud; Couto, Nicole; Voet, Gunnar; Spingys, Carl P.; Fernandez Castro, Bieito; Forryan, Alex; Naveira Garabato, Alberto C.; van Haren, Hans.
2025
Buoyancy flux and mixing efficiency from direct, near-bottom turbulence measurements in a submarine canyon.
Journal of Physical Oceanography, 55 (2).
97-118.
10.1175/JPO-D-24-0005.1
2025
Article
Smith, Jack Lee; Belal, Mohammad ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5175-3158; Lythgoe, Karen; Spingys, Carl; Neale, Jennifer Ward; Embriaco, Davide; Curtis, Andrew.
2025
Azimuthal sensitivity and spatio-temporal decimation of data from distributed acoustic sensing on submarine cables for offshore earthquake early warning systems.
Scientific Reports, 16 (1).
10.1038/s41598-025-29234-5
2025
Article
Spingys, Carl P.; Garabato, Alberto C. Naveira; Belal, Mohammad ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5175-3158.
2024
Optical fibre sensing of turbulent-frequency motions in the oceanic environment.
Scientific Reports, 14 (1).
10.1038/s41598-024-70720-z
2024
Article
Auckland, C.D.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7613-6789; Abrahamsen, E.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5924-5350; Meredith, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7342-7756; Naveira Garabato, A.C.; Spingys, C.P.; Frajka-Williams, E.; Gordon, A.L..
2024
Wind Forcing Controls on Antarctic Bottom Water Export from the Weddell Sea via Bottom Boundary Layer Processes.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129 (8), e2024JC021089.
21, pp.
10.1029/2024JC021089
2024
Article
Spingys, Carl P.; Naveira Garabato, Alberto C.; Belal, Mohammad ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5175-3158.
2024
Distributed optical fibre sensing for high space‐time resolution ocean velocity observations: A case study From a macrotidal channel.
Earth and Space Science, 11 (5).
10.1029/2023EA003315
2024
Article
Silvano, Alessandro; Purkey, Sarah; Gordon, Arnold L.; Castagno, Pasquale; Stewart, Andrew L.; Rintoul, Stephen R.; Foppert, Annie; Gunn, Kathryn L.; Herraiz-Borreguero, Laura; Aoki, Shigeru; Nakayama, Yoshihiro; Naveira Garabato, Alberto C.; Spingys, Carl; Akhoudas, Camille Hayatte; Sallée, Jean Baptiste; de Lavergne, Casimir; Abrahamsen, E. Povl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5924-5350; Meijers, Andrew J.S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3876-7736; Meredith, Michael P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7342-7756; Zhou, Shenjie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9124-6270; Tamura, Takeshi; Yamazaki, Kaihe; Ohshima, Kay I.; Falco, Pierpaolo; Budillon, Giorgio; Hattermann, Tore; Janout, Markus A.; Llanillo, Pedro; Bowen, Melissa M.; Darelius, Elin; Østerhus, Svein; Nicholls, Keith W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-4509; Stevens, Craig; Fernandez, Denise; Cimoli, Laura; Jacobs, Stanley S.; Morrison, Adele K.; Hogg, Andrew McC.; Haumann, F. Alexander; Mashayek, Ali; Wang, Zhaomin; Kerr, Rodrigo; Williams, Guy D.; Lee, Won Sang.
2023
Observing Antarctic Bottom Water in the Southern Ocean.
Frontiers in Marine Science, 10.
30, pp.
10.3389/fmars.2023.1221701
2023
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