Dr James Clark

Dr James Clark is a senior scientist who works within the Marine Ecosystem Modelling Group at PML. He has a Masters degree in Physics with Astrophysics from the University of York, and a PhD in Environmental Science from the University of East Anglia.

His research interests span a range of topics, including evolutionary adaptation and acclimation in phytoplankton, marine ecology, marine biogeochemistry, marine pollution and machine learning for automatic plankton identification.

He leads the PML modelling group’s work on microplastics and has developed the offline particle tracking model PyLag which can be used to simulate the movement and fate of microplastics in the marine environment, and in particular the coastal ocean. He is also the PML Principle Investigator (PI) for the UK Environmental Predictions project (2017 –). Previously, he was the PI for the Copernicus Climate Change Marine, Coastal and Fisheries Sectoral Information System project (2018 – 2019).

He is Primary Supervisor for two current PhD students and secondary supervisory for two more. His publications since 2015 have received > 1100 citations (h-index 12).