Juliane’s background is in observational, physical oceanography and biophysical interactions. This has encompassed research over broad spatial and temporal scales: from tidal processes in shallow, coastal water, seasonal cycles of shelf seas, ocean-shelf exchange, and open ocean settings at tropical, temperate and polar latitudes.
Her main research objective is to better understand physical and biogeochemical pathways and interactions and their role in a changing climate. Juliane is particularly interested in better understanding ocean mixing processes and atmosphere-ocean interactions and what their impact is on the seasonal to multi-annual variability of biophysical interactions in shelf and open ocean settings.
Juliane is an experienced user of marine autonomous vehicles including Argo, AUVs and ocean gliders.
Key Projects
2025- ongoing: WP lead ECOFlow NERC-TCE funded Equify project. The WP’s main objectives are to improve our understanding of the ecological effects of FLOW infrastructure on different trophic levels across critical ecosystem drivers and help to develop new ways to monitor and assess the environmental effects of FLOW infrastructure using the latest technology.
2024-2025: WP lead with the SyncED-Ocean project to help increase trust in coastal marine ecosystem models with a digital twin approach, NERC.
2022-2025: Researcher co-I within ECOWind funded PELAgIO – Physics to Ecosystem Level Assessment of Impacts of Offshore Wind Farms project, NERC-TCE
2018-2022: PDRA SOLSTICE-WIO, NERC-GCRF
2013-2017: Shelf Sea Biogeochemistry (SSB) – CANDYFLOSS, NERC-Defra
Selected Publications
- Berthou, S, Renshaw, R, Smyth, TJ, Tinker, J, Grist, JP, Wihsgott, JU, Jones, S, Inall, M, Nolan, G, Berx, B, Arnold, A, Blunn, LP, Castillo Sanchez, JM, Cotterill, D, Daly, E, Dow, G, Gómez, B, Fraser-Leonhardt, V, Hirschi, JJM, Lewis, HW, Mahmood, S and Worsfold, M. 2024. Exceptional atmospheric conditions in June 2023 generated a northwest European marine heatwave which contributed to breaking land temperature records. Communications Earth & Environment, 5 (1). 1-11. 10.1038/s43247-024-01413-8
- Isaksson, N, Scott, BE, Hunt, GL, Benninghaus, E, Declerck, M, Gormley, K, Harris, C, Sjöstrand, S, Trifonova, NI, Waggitt, JJ, Wihsgott, JU, Williams, C, Zampollo, A, Williamson, BJ and Browman, H. 2023. A paradigm for understanding whole ecosystem effects of offshore wind farms in shelf seas. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 10.1093/icesjms/fsad194
- Jardine, JE; Palmer, M; Mahaffey, C; Holt, J; Wakelin, SL; Düsterhus, A; Sharples, J; Wihsgott, J. 2023. Rain triggers seasonal stratification in a temperate shelf sea. Nature Communications 14, 3182.
- Wihsgott, JU; Sharples, J; Hopkins, JE; Woodward, EMS; Hull, T; Greenwood, N; Sivyer, DB. 2019. Observations of vertical mixing in autumn and its effect on the autumn phytoplankton bloom. Progress in Oceanography, 177, 102059.