Michael Dylan Sparrow Michael Dylan Sparrow
Nationality : British
DOB : 29.08.69
Work Address : AINCO-Interocean, Costa Rica 11 (1,A-26), 28016 Madrid, Spain
Educational History
1992 - 1996 University of East Anglia, Norwich
Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography with UEA and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Lowestoft (CASE partner), investigating the current structure of the South Indian Ocean.
1991 - 1992 University of East Anglia, Norwich
M.Sc. in Atmospheric Sciences, topics of study included Air-Sea Interaction, Climatology, Atmospheric Physics, Meteorology, Pollution Studies, Chemistry of Atmospheres, Kinetics, Oceanography and Modelling.
1987 - 1990 University of Newcastle upon Tyne
B.Sc. (Hons.) 2:1 in Physics. Classes included Fluid Dynamics, Classical Mechanics, Wave and Vibrations, Statistical Mechanics, Planetary Physics, Cosmology, Astrophysics, Electromagnetism, Quantum Mechanics, Special Relativity, Electronics, Thermodynamics, Solid State Physics, Nuclear Physics, Pascal Programming, Pure Maths and Statistics.
1985 - 1987 Eaton (City of Norwich) School
'A' levels : Physics (A), Mathematics (B), Chemistry (B), General Paper (AO level) (A)
1978 - 1985 Long Stratton High School
G.C.E. 'O' levels : Physics (B), Mathematics (A), History (B), Geometrical Drawing (A), English Literature (D), English Language (B), Chemistry (C)
C.S.E's : French (2), Chemistry (1), Mathematics (1), Geometrical Drawing (1)
Presentations
U.K. Oceanography '94, Stirling -
"Frontal Structure of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) in the South Indian Ocean".European Geophysical Society '94, Grenoble
- poster presentation "Frontal Structure of the ACC in and around the Crozet-Kerguelen area in the South Indian Ocean".University of East Anglia '95, Norwich -
"Frontal Structure in the South Indian Ocean".Universidad de las Palmas '97, Las Palmas -
"Neutrally Buoyant floats in the North East Atlantic".European Geophysical Society '97, Vienna
- poster presentation "Spreading of Mediterranean and Labrador Sea water masses observed with neutrally buoyant floats - preliminary results from the EUROFLOAT project".EUROFLOAT III Meeting, Brest, France May '97 - "Eurofloat Rafos Floats".
Main Publications
"Current Structure of the South Indian Ocean", M.D.Sparrow, K.J.Heywood and J.Brown, Journal of Geophysical Research, Oceans, 101 (C3), pp. 6377-6391, 1996.
"Current Structure of the South Indian Ocean", M.D.Sparrow, Ph.D thesis, 219 pages, May 1996.
"Current Structure of the South Indian Ocean", M.D.Sparrow, K.J.Heywood and J.Brown, Understanding Ocean Circulation, U.K. WOCE - The first six years…, ed. R.T.Pollard and D. Smythe-Wright, p. 24, 1996.
" Frontal Structure and Antarctic Bottom Water Flow through the Princess Elizabeth Trough, Antarctica", K.J.Heywood, M.D.Sparrow, J.Brown and R.R.Dickson, Submitted to Deep-Sea Research I, 1997.
" Boyas de Deriva de Flotación Neutra en el Noreste Atlantico", M.D.Sparrow and A.Cantos-Figuerola, Taller y Tertulia en Oceanografía Física, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, pp.82-84, 1997.
Employment History
presently working at AINCO-Interocean
1996 University of East Anglia, Norwich
Employed by the university to write papers from my thesis.
1990 - 1991 Chantrey Vellacott Chartered Accountants, London
Trainee Accountant, duties included assisting managers on various assignments and dealing with client problems. Left in 1991 to return to full time education.
I have held down many temporary jobs during my undergraduate studies and have also demonstrated several classes in Oceanography and Mathematics, including lengthy field courses.
Interests
Ballroom and Latin Dancing (member of UEA Dance team), Fencing (member of the UEA Sabre team), Weight and Fitness training, Swimming, Drawing, Kung Fu (President of the Wing Chun Kung Fu Club in Newcastle), Squash and Badminton (member of Newcastle University Badminton Team). I have also been the treasurer of the Viking and Dark Ages Banqueting Society !
Relevant Experience
During the last four years I have taken part in one two week cruise in the North Atlantic ('96) as part of the Eurofloat project on board the D'Entrecasteaux deploying MARVOR floats, two six week cruises (ADOX I and II) in the Southern Ocean ('93 and '94) on the R.R.S. Discovery, where I was involved in the collection and associated processing of ADCP, CTD, XBT, TSG and Bottle data, and a single eight day cruise (JONUS) in the North Sea ('94) assisting with the collection of CTD and bottle data. My Ph.D. research involved the interpretation of hydrographic data from the two ADOX cruises as well as looking at historical data and results from the Fine Resolution Antarctic Model. In 1994 I attended the Cambridge summer school in Fluid Dynamics.
I am familiar with various computing environments (VAX, UNIX and PC's) all of which are used in my work. I have used FORTRAN and also have programming experience with PASCAL and BASIC. I also use several other software packages in my work, the main ones being MATLAB, PSTAR (data processing) and WORD (word processing). I set up and now maintain AINCO´s as well as my own Web sites. I have had various demonstrating experience with undergraduate students. I am currently attending classes to improve my Spanish.