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Cartoon sketch of two large icebergs calving off a glacier into a fjord

Very large icebergs occasionally calve from Greenland's glaciers into fjords, stirring the water and transporting heat and salt towards the newly-exposed glacier front.

Credit: O Tovey Garcia

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  • Climate physics

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  • Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics

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  • Ice and Fluid Dynamics
oscar.toveygarcia@physics.ox.ac.uk
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Hello! I am a DPhil (PhD) student in the Oxford Ice and Fluid Dynamics group, working under the guidance of Andrew Wells, with funding from the NERC DTP in Environmental Research. My research focuses on fjord circulation and mixing driven by toppling icebergs. This work aims to improve our understanding of the impact of calving events on the submarine melt rate of tidewater glaciers around Greenland and Antarctica.

I also teach undergraduate tutorials on climate physics and fluid dynamics (see "Teaching"), and co-organise the sub-department's "Research Reports" seminar series. 

Before arriving at Oxford, I completed BA and MSci degrees in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge.

Research interests

Geophysical fluid dynamics
Ice-ocean interaction
GPU computing

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