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Stephen D. McPhail
Researcher at National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
Publications - 60
Citations - 2596
Stephen D. McPhail is an academic researcher from National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ice shelf & Sea ice. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 57 publications receiving 2238 citations. Previous affiliations of Stephen D. McPhail include Scottish Association for Marine Science & University of Southampton.
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Observations beneath Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica and implications for its retreat
Adrian Jenkins,Pierre Dutrieux,Stanley S. Jacobs,Stephen D. McPhail,James Perrett,A.T. Webb,David White +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an autonomous underwater vehicle operating beneath Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica, reveals that the glacier was recently grounded on a transverse ridge in the sea floor, but now warm sea water flows through the widening gap above the ridge.
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Antarctic Krill Under Sea Ice: Elevated Abundance in a Narrow Band Just South of Ice Edge
Andrew S. Brierley,Paul G. Fernandes,Mark A. Brandon,Frederick Armstrong,N.W. Millard,Stephen D. McPhail,P. Stevenson,Miles Pebody,James Perrett,M. Squires,Douglas G. Bone,Gwyn Griffiths +11 more
TL;DR: Autosub-2 enabled us to make continuous high-resolution measurements of krill density under ice reaching 27 kilometers beyond the ice edge, and krill densities were fivefold greater than that of open water.
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Hydrothermal vent fields and chemosynthetic biota on the world's deepest seafloor spreading centre
Douglas P. Connelly,Jonathan T. Copley,Bramley J. Murton,K. Stansfield,Paul A. Tyler,Christopher R. German,Cindy Lee Van Dover,Diva J. Amon,Maaten Furlong,Nancy R. Grindlay,Nicholas W. Hayman,Veit Hühnerbach,Maria Judge,Tim Le Bas,Stephen D. McPhail,Alexandra Meier,K. Nakamura,Verity Nye,Miles Pebody,Rolf B. Pedersen,Sophie Plouviez,C. M. Sands,Roger Searle,P. Stevenson,Sarah Taws,Sally Wilcox +25 more
TL;DR: At both sites, a new morphospecies of alvinocaridid shrimp dominates faunal assemblages, which exhibit similarities to those of Mid-Atlantic vents.
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Measurements beneath an Antarctic ice shelf using an autonomous underwater vehicle
Keith W. Nicholls,E. Povl Abrahamsen,Justin J. H. Buck,Paul A. Dodd,Colin Goldblatt,Gwyn Griffiths,Karen J. Heywood,Nick Hughes,A. Kaletzky,Gregory F. Lane-Serff,Stephen D. McPhail,N. W. Millard,Kevin I. C. Oliver,James Perrett,M. R. Price,Carol J. Pudsey,Kevin Saw,K. L. Stansfield,M. J. Stott,Peter Wadhams,A.T. Webb,Jeremy Wilkinson +21 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report results from a mission under the Fimbul Ice Shelf of an autonomous underwater vehicle, revealing a spatially complex oceanographic environment, an ice base with widely varying roughness, and a cavity periodically exposed to water with a temperature significantly above the surface freezing point.
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Fish do not avoid survey vessels
Paul G. Fernandes,Andrew S. Brierley,E.J. Simmonds,N.W. Millard,Stephen D. McPhail,Frederick Armstrong,P. Stevenson,M. Squires +7 more
TL;DR: New data gathered by an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) showing that vessel avoidance is not a significant source of bias is presented, and the arrival of AUVs as effective survey platforms is heralded.