Dr Joanne Hopkins

Biography

I am a physical oceanographer who uses a combination of observational data (from ships, moorings, gliders), numerical model output, remote sensing and reanalysis products to tackle a range of dynamical shelf sea and ocean challenges, in both temperate and polar environments. I am interested in how ocean physics helps regulate and sustain life within our productive oceans, both across shallow shelf seas and within the deep open ocean.

Committee Memberships

2021– present   UN Ocean Decade CoastPredict Programme Executive Board

2023– present   NERC Peer Review College

2021–2023        Member of the NERC Marine Facilities Advisory Board

Projects

Active Projects

CANARI. Climate Change in the Arctic and North Atlantic Region and Impacts on the UK (NOC-PI)

https://canari.ac.uk

FOCUS. Future States of the Global Coastal Ocean (WP4 Lead)

https://projects.noc.ac.uk/focus

Atlantis. Atlantic Climate and Environment Impacts (Theme 2 Lead)

https://noc.ac.uk/projects/atlantis

N-Arc. Nitrogen Fixation in the Arctic

CarTRidge. Enhanced carbon export driven by internal tides over the mid-Atlantic ridge

Past Projects

ARISE. Can we detect change in Arctic Ecosystems? (NOC-PI)

https://www.changing-arctic-ocean.ac.uk/project/arise

PEANUTS.Primary productivity driven by increasing vertical nutrient fluxes? (NOC-PI)

https://www.changing-arctic-ocean.ac.uk/project/peanuts

CAMPUS.Combining Autonomous observations and Models for Predicting and Understanding shelf Seas

https://www.campus-marine.org

OSNAP. Overturning in the Sub-polar North Atlantic Programme

https://www.o-snap.org

CANDYFLOSS. CArbon/Nutrient DYnamics and FLuxes Over Shelf Systems

https://www.uk-ssb.org

FASTNeT. Fluxes Across Sloping Topogrpahy of the North East Atlantic

Congo Plume

Liverpool Bay Coastal Observatory

Roles Provided

Lead of the Coastal Ocean Processes Subgroup within MPOC

Science Lead for NOC in the Arctic Mission

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Publications

Publication year

2026

Publication type

Article

Authors

Coët, Arthur; Bastos, Cécile Carpaneto; Lechelon, Mathias; Hawley, Ruth; Flanagan, Oliver; Lohan, Maeve C; Ronceray, Pierre; Hopkins, Joanne E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Mahaffey, Claire; Benavides, Mar. 2025 Dynamics of diazotroph particle colonization in the Arctic Ocean. The ISME Journal, 19 (1). 10.1093/ismejo/wraf098

Publication year

2025

Publication type

Article

Authors

Rühl, Saskia; Thompson, Charlotte E.L.; Queirós, Ana M.; Hopkins, Joanne E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Henley, Sian F.; Widdicombe, Stephen. 2025 Will the declining sea ice extent in the Arctic cause a reversal of net benthic-pelagic exchange directions? Journal of Marine Systems, 249, 104067. 1, pp. 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2025.104067

Publication year

2025

Publication type

Article

Publication year

2024

Publication type

Article

Authors

Rippeth, Tom; Shen, Sijing; Lincoln, Ben; Scannell, Brian; Meng, Xin; Hopkins, Joanne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Sharples, Jonathan. 2024 The deepwater oxygen deficit in stratified shallow seas is mediated by diapycnal mixing. Nature Communications, 15 (1). 10.1038/s41467-024-47548-2

Publication year

2024

Publication type

Article

Publication year

2022

Publication type

Article

Authors

Huthnance, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3682-2896; Hopkins, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Berx, Bee; Dale, Andy; Holt, Jason ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3298-8477; Hosegood, Philip; Inall, Mark; Jones, Sam; Loveday, Benjamin R.; Miller, Peter I.; Polton, Jeff ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Porter, Marie; Spingys, Carl. 2022 Ocean shelf exchange, NW European shelf seas: Measurements, estimates and comparisons. Progress in Oceanography, 202, 102760. 10.1016/j.pocean.2022.102760

Publication year

2022

Publication type

Article

Authors

Tuerena, Robyn E.; Hopkins, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Buchanan, Pearse J.; Ganeshram, Raja S.; Norman, Louisa; Appen, Wilken‐Jon; Tagliabue, Alessandro; Doncila, Antonia; Graeve, Martin; Ludwichowski, Kai U.; Dodd, Paul A.; Vega, Camille; Salter, Ian; Mahaffey, Claire. 2021 An Arctic Strait of two halves: the changing dynamics of nutrient uptake and limitation across the Fram Strait. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 35 (9). 10.1029/2021GB006961

Publication year

2021

Publication type

Article

Authors

Hopkins, Joanne E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Palmer, Matthew R.; Poulton, Alex J.; Hickman, Anna E.; Sharples, Jonathan. 2021 Control of a phytoplankton bloom by wind‐driven vertical mixing and light availability. Limnology and Oceanography. 10.1002/lno.11734

Publication year

2021

Publication type

Article

Authors

MacKinnon, Jennifer A.; Simmons, Harper L.; Hargrove, John; Thomson, Jim; Peacock, Thomas; Alford, Matthew H.; Barton, Benjamin I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9998-2064; Boury, Samuel; Brenner, Samuel D.; Couto, Nicole; Danielson, Seth L.; Fine, Elizabeth C.; Graber, Hans C.; Guthrie, John; Hopkins, Joanne E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Jayne, Steven R.; Jeon, Chanhyung; Klenz, Thilo; Lee, Craig M.; Lenn, Yueng-Djern; Lucas, Andrew J.; Lund, Björn; Mahaffey, Claire; Norman, Louisa; Rainville, Luc; Smith, Madison M.; Thomas, Leif N.; Torres-Valdés, Sinhué; Wood, Kevin R.. 2021 A warm jet in a cold ocean. Nature Communications, 12 (1). 10.1038/s41467-021-22505-5

Publication year

2021

Publication type

Article

Authors

Huthnance, John M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3682-2896; Hopkins, Joanne E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Inall, Mark; Holt, Jason ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3298-8477; team, FASTNEt. 2021 Ocean Shelf Exchange, NW European shelf Seas: measurements, estimates and comparisons. In: EGU General Assembly 2021, Online, 19-30 April 2021.

Publication year

2021

Publication type

Conference item

Authors

de la Vega, Camille; Mahaffey, Claire; Tuerena, Robyn E.; Yurkowski, David J.; Ferguson, Steven H.; Stenson, Garry B.; Nordøy, Erling S.; Haug, Tore; Biuw, Martin; Smout, Sophie; Hopkins, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Tagliabue, Alessandro; Jeffreys, Rachel M.. 2021 Arctic seals as tracers of environmental and ecological change. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 6 (1). 24-32. 10.1002/lol2.10176

Publication year

2021

Publication type

Article

Authors

Tuerena, Robyn E.; Hopkins, Joanne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Ganeshram, Raja S.; Norman, Louisa; de la Vega, Camille; Jeffreys, Rachel; Mahaffey, Claire. 2021 Nitrate assimilation and regeneration in the Barents Sea: insights from nitrate isotopes. Biogeosciences, 18 (2). 637-653. 10.5194/bg-18-637-2021

Publication year

2021

Publication type

Article

Publication year

2020

Publication type

Article

Authors

Spingys, Carl P.; Williams, Richard G.; Hopkins, Joanne E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Hall, Rob A.; Green, J. A. Mattias; Sharples, Jonathan. 2020 Internal tide driven tracer transport across the continental slope. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125 (9), e2019JC015530. 10.1029/2019JC015530

Publication year

2020

Publication type

Article

Authors

Powley, Helen R.; Bruggeman, Jorn; Hopkins, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Smyth, Tim; Blackford, Jerry. 2020 Sensitivity of shelf sea marine ecosystems to temporal resolution of meteorological forcing. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125 (7), e2019JC015922. 10.1029/2019JC015922

Publication year

2020

Publication type

Article

Authors

Artigue, Lise; Lacan, François; van Gennip, Simon; Lohan, Maeve C.; Wyatt, Neil J.; Woodward, E. Malcolm S.; Mahaffey, Claire; Hopkins, Joanne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Drillet, Yann. 2020 Water mass analysis along 22 °N in the subtropical North Atlantic for the JC150 cruise (GEOTRACES, GApr08). Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 158, 103230. 10.1016/j.dsr.2020.103230

Publication year

2020

Publication type

Article

Publication year

2020

Publication type

Conference item

Authors

Hopkins, Joanne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Palmer, Matthew; Sharples, Jonathan; Hickman, Anna E; Poulton, Alex J. 2020 Wind-driven vertical mixing and light availability control the evolution of phytoplankton blooms on a tidally energetic shelf. [Poster] In: Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego, California, 16-21 February 2020.

Publication year

2020

Publication type

Conference item

Authors

Ruiz‐Castillo, Eugenio; Sharples, Jonathan; Hopkins, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671. 2019 Wind‐driven strain extends seasonal stratification. Geophysical Research Letters, 46 (22). 13244-13252. 10.1029/2019GL084540

Publication year

2019

Publication type

Article

Authors

Wihsgott, Juliane U. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7909-0007; Sharples, Jonathan; Hopkins, Joanne E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Woodward, E. Malcolm S.; Hull, Tom; Greenwood, Naomi; Sivyer, David B.. 2019 Observations of vertical mixing in autumn and its effect on the autumn phytoplankton bloom. Progress in Oceanography, 177, 102059. 10.1016/j.pocean.2019.01.001

Publication year

2019

Publication type

Article

Authors

Ruiz-Castillo, Eugenio; Sharples, Jonathan; Hopkins, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Woodward, Malcolm. 2019 Seasonality in the cross-shelf physical structure of a temperate shelf sea and the implications for nitrate supply. Progress in Oceanography, 177, 101985. 10.1016/j.pocean.2018.07.006

Publication year

2019

Publication type

Article

Authors

Poulton, Alex J.; Mayers, Kyle M.J.; Daniels, Christopher J.; Stinchcombe, Mark C.; Woodward, E. Malcolm S.; Hopkins, Joanne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Wihsgott, Julianne U. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7909-0007; Widdicombe, Claire E.. 2019 Dissolution dominates silica‐cycling in a shelf sea autumn bloom. Geophysical Research Letters, 46 (12). 6765-6774. 10.1029/2019GL083558

Publication year

2019

Publication type

Article

Authors

Humphreys, Matthew P.; Achterberg, Eric P.; Hopkins, Joanne E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Chowdhury, Mohammed Z.H.; Griffiths, Alex M.; Hartman, Susan E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6363-1331; Hull, Tom; Smilenova, Angelina; Wihsgott, Juliane U. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7909-0007; S. Woodward, E. Malcolm; Mark Moore, C.. 2018 Mechanisms for a nutrient-conserving carbon pump in a seasonally stratified, temperate continental shelf sea. Progress in Oceanography, 177, 101961. 10.1016/j.pocean.2018.05.001

Publication year

2018

Publication type

Article

Authors

Hopkins, Joanne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; et al, .. 2018 RRS James Clark Ross, 30 June-8 Aug 2017. The Changing Arctic Ocean Cruise JR16006. Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, 153pp. (National Oceanography Centre Cruise Report, 51)

Publication year

2018

Publication type

Monograph

Authors

Vincent, Alexander G.; Pascal, Robin W.; Beaton, Alexander D.; Walk, John; Hopkins, Joanne E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Woodward, E. Malcolm S.; Mowlem, Matthew; Lohan, Maeve C.. 2018 Nitrate drawdown during a shelf sea spring bloom revealed using a novel microfluidic in situ chemical sensor deployed within an autonomous underwater glider. Marine Chemistry, 205. 29-36. 10.1016/j.marchem.2018.07.005

Publication year

2018

Publication type

Article

Authors

Scannell, Brian D.; Rippeth, Tom P.; Simpson, John H.; Polton, Jeff A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Hopkins, Joanne E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671. 2017 Correcting surface wave bias in structure function estimates of turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 34 (10). 2257-2273. 10.1175/JTECH-D-17-0059.1

Publication year

2017

Publication type

Article

Authors

Balfour, C.; Hopkins, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Kenny, J.; Jones, D.S.; Jones, E.. 2016 NOC Liverpool report for the Wirewalker underwater profiler deployment for the RidgeMix research programme. Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, 36pp. (National Oceanography Centre Research and Consultancy Report, 57)

Publication year

2016

Publication type

Monograph

Authors

Porter, M.; Inall, M.E.; Hopkins, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Palmer, M.R.; Dale, A.C.; Aleynik, D.; Barth, J.A.; Mahaffey, C.; Smeed, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1740-1778. 2016 Glider observations of enhanced deep water upwelling at a shelf break canyon: a mechanism for cross-slope carbon and nutrient exchange. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 121 (10). 7575-7588. 10.1002/2016JC012087

Publication year

2016

Publication type

Article

Authors

Stephenson, Gordon R.; Hopkins, Joanne E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Green, J.A. Mattias; Inall, Mark E.; Palmer, Matthew R.. 2015 Baroclinic energy flux at the continental shelf edge modified by wind-mixing. Geophysical Research Letters, 42 (6). 1826-1833. 10.1002/2014GL062627

Publication year

2015

Publication type

Article

Authors

Hopkins, Joanne E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Stephenson, Gordon R.; Green, J. Mattias; Inall, Mark E.. 2014 Storms modify baroclinic energy fluxes in a seasonally stratified shelf sea: inertial-tidal interaction. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 119 (10). 6863-6883. 10.1002/2014JC010011

Publication year

2014

Publication type

Article

Authors

Vlasenko, Vasiliy; Stashchuk, Nataliya; Inall, Mark E.; Hopkins, Joanne E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671. 2014 Tidal energy conversion in a global hot spot: On the 3-D dynamics of baroclinic tides at the Celtic Sea shelf break. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 119 (6). 3249-3265. 10.1002/2013JC009708

Publication year

2014

Publication type

Article

Authors

Hopkins, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Lucas, Marc; Dufau, Claire; Sutton, Marion; Stum, Jacques; Lauret, Olivier; Channelliere, Claire. 2013 Detection and variability of the Congo River plume from satellite derived sea surface temperature, salinity, ocean colour and sea level. Remote Sensing of Environment, 139. 365-385. 10.1016/j.rse.2013.08.015

Publication year

2013

Publication type

Article

Publication year

2012

Publication type

Article

Authors

Holt, Jason ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3298-8477; Hughes, Sarah; Hopkins, Joanne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Wakelin, Sarah L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2081-2693; Holliday, N. Penny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9733-8002; Dye, Stephen; González-Pola, César; Hjøllo, Solfrid Sætre; Mork, Kjell Arne; Nolan, Glen; Proctor, Roger; Read, Jane; Shammon, Theresa; Sherwin, Toby; Smyth, Tim; Tattersall, Graham; Ward, Ben; Wiltshire, Karen Helen. 2012 Multi-decadal variability and trends in the temperature of the northwest European continental shelf: A model-data synthesis. Progress in Oceanography, 106. 96-117. 10.1016/j.pocean.2012.08.001

Publication year

2012

Publication type

Article

Authors

Hopkins, Joanne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Shaw, A.G.P.; Challenor, P.. 2010 The Southland Front, New Zealand: Variability and ENSO correlations. Continental Shelf Research, 30 (14). 1535-1548. 10.1016/j.csr.2010.05.016

Publication year

2010

Publication type

Article

Authors

Hopkins, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Challenor, Peter; Shaw, Andrew G.P.. 2010 A new statistical modeling approach to ocean front detection from SST satellite images. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 27 (1). 173-191. 10.1175/2009JTECHO684.1

Publication year

2010

Publication type

Article

Authors

Hopkins, Joanne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671. 2008 Statistical Modelling and Variability of the Subtropical Front, New Zealand. University of Southampton, School of Ocean and Earth Science, PhD Thesis, 211pp.

Publication year

2008

Publication type

Thesis