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Dr. Alejandro Jose Gerardo Souza Gomez

GRADOS ACADÉMICOS


Oceanólogo, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California (1989), Mención Honorifica.
Maestría en Ciencias Oceanografía Física, Universidad de Gales, Bangor (1991).
Doctorado en Filosofía Oceanografía Física, Universidad de Gales, Bangor (1994).
Professor Universidad de Liverpool (2013).


EXPERIENCIA LABORAL


Mar’94 – Dec’97 Universidad de Bangor (Reino Unido) Investigador Postdoctoral – Proyecto de NERC Shelf Edge Study (SES) - Diseño implementación y análisis de observaciones oceanográficas en el talud continental Británico.
Ene ‘98 – Ago ’98 Universidad de Harvard (Estados Unidos) Investigador Asociado - (Modelación numérica y procesos de turbulencia y transporte de sedimento.
Oct ‘99 – Ago ’02 Open University (Reino Unido) Profesor Asociado Impartir curso de Oceanografía General.
Ago ‘98 – Abril ’17 Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory/ National Oceanography Centre (Reino Unido) Investigador Principal Jefe del Grupo de Procesos Costeros Investigación en Oceanografía Costera.


INTERÉS EN INVESTIGACÍON


Mi principal interés en investigaciones en el estudio de procesos estuarinos y de mar de plataforma y su interacción con la ecología marina, el tranporte sedimentario, la óptica y la turbulencia.

TRABAJO EDITORIAL


FUE EDITOR DE:

Ciencias Marinas
Ocean Dynamics
Journal Of Geophysical Research Oceans
Miembro del Comite Editorial de Journal of Coastal Research.


SEGUIMIENTO DE ESTUDIANTES:


Dr Antonio Guarnieri DHI, Italia
Dr Emlyn Davies SINTEF, Noruega
Dr Elisabeth Schulz (Fischer) IFREMER, Francia
Dr Williama Thurnston Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
Dr David Todd HR Wallingford
Dr Leslie Aveytua Alcazar, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Italia
Dr Rowena Moore HR Wallingford
Dr. Rafael Ramirez Mendoza CICESE
Dr. Cecilia Enriquez FC-UNAM-Sisal
Dr. Laura Carrillo Colegio de La Frontera Sur
Dr M Harikrishnan, Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory, New Delhi, India
Dr Emma Pidduck Intertek, London, Reino Unido
Dr Daniel Eddon, WSP, Reino Unido.
M en C Capitan Nidia Teresa Angulo Larios


Ha escrito más de 100 artículos de investigación y capítulos de libros.

PUBLICACIONES RECIENTES


Bolanos R., Brown JM, Amoudry, LO and A.J. Souza (2013) Tidal, riverine and wind influences on the circulation of a macrotidal estuary. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 43, 29-50.
A.J. Souza and A. Lane (2013) Effects of freshwater inflow on sediment transport, J. Operational. Oceanogr. 6, 1, 27-31.
A.J. Souza, J. Brown, J.J. Williams, G. Lymbery (2013) APPLICATION OF AN OPERATIONAL STORM COASTAL IMPACT FORECASTING SYSTEM, J. Operational Oceanogr. 6, 1, 23-27.
J.M. Brown, L.O. Amoudry, F.M. Mercier, A.J. Souza (2013) Intercomparison of the Charnock and CORE bulk wind stress formulations for coastal ocean modelling. Ocean Sci. Discuss., 10, 519-537.
A.J. Souza (2013) On the use of the Stokes number to explain frictional tidal dynamics and water column structure in shelf seas, Ocean Sci., 9, 391-398.
J. Phelps, J.A. Polton, A.J. Souza and L. Robinson (2013) Hydrodynamic Timescales in a Macro-tidal Region of Freshwater Influence, Estuarine, Cont. Shelf Res., 63,13-22, doi: 10.1016/j.csr.2013.04.027.
L.O. Amoudry, P.S. Bell, P.D. Thorne, A.J. Souza (2013) Towards parameterizing sediment suspension over sand ripples and under regular waves in RANS models, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 1–15, doi:10.1002/jgrc.20188.
J.M. Brown, L.O. Amoudry, F.M. Mercier, A.J. Souza (2013) Intercomparison of the Charnock and COARE bulk wind stress formulations for coastal ocean modelling. Ocean Sci., 9, 721–729. doi:10.5194/os-9-721-2013.
J.M. Brown, R. Bolaños, A.J. Souza (2014) Understanding the residual circulation in tidally dominated estuarine environments. Estuaries and Coasts, 37, 1041-1057. DOI 10.1007/s12237-013-9745-6
R. Ramirez-Mendoza, A.J. Souza, L.O. Amoudry (2014) Modelling flocculation process in an hypertidal estuary. Ocean Dynamics, 64, 301-313, DOI: 10.1007/s10236-013-0675-4
Meirelles, S., Horner-Devine, A., Henriquez, M., Stive, M., Pietrzak, J., Souza, A.J. (2014) Middle shoreface sand transport under stratified regimes. In: Green, A.N. and Cooper, J.A.G. (eds.), Proceedings 13th International Coastal Symposium (Durban, South Africa), Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 70, 182-186
J.M. Brown, R. Bolaños , A.J. Souza (2014) Controls on the mid-term estuarine residuals: circulation and elevation. Ocean Dynamics, 64, 587-609. DOI 10.1007/s10236-014-0698-5.
Bolanos R., Brown JM, and A.J. Souza (2014) Wave-current interactions in a tidal dominated estuary, CSR. 87, 109–123.
L.O. Amoudry, A.J. Souza, J.M. Brown, R. Ramirez-Mendoza (2014) Modelling-based assessment of suspended sediment dynamics in a hypertidal estuarine channel. Ocean Dynamics, 64, 707-722. 10.1007/s10236-014-0695-8
Guarnieri, A., A. J. Souza, N. Pinardi, and P. Traykovski (2014) Numerical modelling of sediment transport in the Adriatic Sea. Ocean Sci. Discuss., 11, 1391-1433.
J.M. Brown, L.O. Amoudry, A.J. Souza and J. Rees (2015) Fate and pathways of dredged estuarine sediment spoil in response to variable sediment size and baroclinic coastal circulation. Journal of Environmental Management, Volume 149, 209–221. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.10.017
J.J.C. Phelps, J.A. Polton, A.J. Souza and L.A. Robinson (2015) Behaviour influences larval dispersal in shelf seagyres: Nephrops norvegicus in the Irish Sea. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 518, 177-191 doi: 10.3354/meps11040.
Barton, E.D., Largier, J.L., Torres, R., Sheridan, M., Trasviña, A., Souza, A., Pazos, Y., Valle-Levinson, A. (2015) Coastal upwelling and downwelling forcing of a semi-enclosed bay Ria de Vigo. Progr. Oceanogr., 134, 173-189. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2015.01.014
Amoudry, L. O., A. J. Souza, P. D. Thorne, and P. L.-F. Liu (2016), Parameterization of intrawave ripple-averaged sediment pickup above steep ripples, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 121, 658–673, doi:10.1002/2015JC011185.
McCardell, G., J. O’Donnell, A.J. Souza, and M. R. Palmer (2016), Internal tides and tidal cycles of vertical mixing in western Long Island Sound, J. Geophys.Res. Oceans, 121, doi:10.1002/2015JC010796.
A.J. Souza (2016) Hydrographic, temperature, salinity (density) and current measurements and analysis. ECSA practical handbooks on survey and analysis methods: Estuarine and coastal hydrography and sedimentology (eds. R.J. Uncles and S. Mitchel), Cambridge University press.
K.D. Huguenard1, A. Valle-Levinson, R. Chant, M. Li, A.J. Souza (2015) Linkage between Lateral Circulation and Near-Surface Vertical Mixing in the James River Estuary. JGR-Oceans, 120, doi:10.1002/2014JC010679.
J.D Pietrzac, A.J Souza and J.M.Huthnance (2016) Past and ongoing changes in the North Sea and its interface regions: Suspended particulate matter (SPM) and turbidity. North Sea Climate Change Assessment, (eds. M. Quante and F. Colijn), Springer Verlag, 109-113.
Meirelles, S., Henriquez, M., Souza, A.J., Horner-Devine, A.R., Pietrzak, J.D., Rijnsburg, S., Stive, M.J.F. (2016) Small Scale Bedform Types off the South-Holland Coast. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue 75, 423-426, DOI: 10.2112/SI75-085.1.
Ramírez-Mendoza, R. Souza, A.J., Amoudry, L.O., Plater, A.J. (2016) Effective energy controls on flocculation under various wave-current regimes. Mar. Geol., 182, 136-150.
Brown, J.M., Norman, D., Amoudry, L.O., Souza A.J. (2016) Impact of operational model nesting approaches and inherent errors for coastal simulations, Ocean Mod., 107, 48-63.
Horner-Devine, A.R, J.D. Pietrzak, A.J. Souza, M.A. McKeon, S. Meirelles, M. Henriquez, R.P. Flores, S. Rijnsburger (2017) Cross-shore transport of nearshore sediment by river plume frontal pumping, Geophys. Res. Lett. 44, 6343–6351, doi:10.1002/2017GL073378
Flores, R. P., S. Rijnsburger, A. R. Horner-Devine, A. J. Souza, and J. D. Pietrzak (2017), The impact of storms and stratification on sediment transport in the Rhine region of freshwater influence, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 122, 4456–4477, doi:10.1002/2016JC012362
Saulo Meirelles, Martijn Henriquez, Ad Reniers, Arjen P. Luijendijk, Julie Pietrzak, Alexander R. Horner-Devine, Alejandro J. Souza, Marcel J. F. Stive (2018) Cross-shore stratified tidal flow seaward of a mega-nourishment, Estuar. Coast. Shelf. Sci., 200, 59-70, 2018.
Sabine Rijnsburger, Raúl P. Flores, Julie D. Pietrzak, Alexander R. Horner‐Devine, Alejandro J. Souza (2018) The influence of tide and wind on the propagation of fronts in a shallow river plume, J Geophys. Res. Oceans., https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JC013422
Raúl P. Flores, Sabine Rijnsburger, Saulo Meirelles, Alexander R. Horner-Devine, Alejandro J. Souza, Julie D. Pietrzak, Martijn Henriquez and Ad Reniers (2018) Wave generation of gravity-driven sediment flows on a predominantly sandy seabed, Geophys. Res. Lett. DOI: 10.1029/2018GL077936