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I am a senior research fellow at the Oceans Graduate School, University of Western Australia. My research specialises in physical oceanography with an emphasis on numerical modelling and observing stratified flows on the continental shelf and coastal regions. My main work focuses on the oceanography component of the ARC Research Hub for Transforming energy Infrastructure through Digital Engineering TIDE. Previously, I was a postdoctoral scholar in the Bob and Norma Street Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at Stanford University, where I developed numerical modelling tools to study the circulation in the bays and estuaries along the Gulf of Mexico coast. I am an active user and developer of the SUNTANS unstructured grid ocean model.

My general research interests include:

  • Tide-topography interactions including internal tide generation
  • Storm-generated near-inertial waves
  • Nonlinear internal waves
  • Hydrodynamic modelling of coastal ocean and estuarine physics
  • Transport processes in the coastal ocean
  • Transitions to turbulence (e.g., breaking internal waves)
  • Uncertainty quantification of ocean dynamical quantities
  • Any time-dependent, dynamic problems!

See my Research and Internal Waves pages for more details.

Streamlines

Figure: Flow streamlines of Galveston Bay. Published in the Stanford Art of Science Competition.

News

  • November 2020: We were awarded an ARC Discovery Project on Quantifying vertical and lateral ocean transport due to fronts and eddies

  • Early 2020: We (Shane Keating @ UNSW, Nicole Jones @ UWA, Callum Shakespeare @ ANU and myself) were added to the Surface Water Ocean Topograhy (SWOT) satellite mission Science Team with our project Untangling deterministic and non-deterministic ocean processes in SWOT observations

  • November 2018: I am currently on parental leave until mid-May 2019.

  • November 2017: Check out our award winning video published in the Gallery of Fluid Motion!

Matthew D. Rayson, PhD

Senior Research Fellow

Oceans Graduate School and the Oceans Institute

University of Western Australia

matt dot rayson at gmail dot com