Des Barton

Today some photographs made by the now official paparazzi of the Master in Oceanography, May Gómez (thanks May). Professor Barton gave during the last week some teaching in our master degree. Des Barton is Research Professor in the Spanish “Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas” in the Departamento de Oceanoloxía at Instituto de Investigacions Mariñas in Vigo. He took undergraduate studies in Physics and Oceanography and then completed the Doctorate. He went to work in the United States and Mexico for a number of years. On returning to the UK, he worked on research contracts until 1983 when he obtained a post of Lecturer, and then Senior Lecturer at University College of North Wales. In 2004, he moved to the present position in Spain. His research interests have focused on Eastern Boundary Current systems of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. In recent years he worked increasingly closely with biogeochemists and zoologists on the intricate relations at meso and smaller scales that govern these large marine ecosystems. These systems are subject to major changes associated with climate variability and anthropogenic activity, but are still incompletely understood. On a more regional scale, he has studied the circulation and processes associated with oceanic islands and recently completed intensive work on circulation within the small semi-enclosed Ria de Vigo, both in a strongly multi-disciplinary context.

Des Barton

A famous couple in Oceanography, Javier Arístegui and Des Barton

Ted Packard and Des Barton