DAY 1: WEDNESDAY, 22 OCTOBER 2025

08.30-09.00

09.00-09.20

Arrival and Registration at RSE  

Welcome and opening remarks  

09.20-10.30

Session 1 – Chair:  John Grue

09.20-09.40

Kai Håkon Christensen, Atle Jensen, Jan Erik H. Weber, Maxime Leclerc & Kjersti Stangeland
Laboratory investigations of wave-induced flow near a permeable bottom.  

09.40-10.00

Masoud Hayatdavoodi
Nonlinear wave interactions with muddy seafloors in coastal areas

10.00-10.20

Simen Ådnøy Ellingsen, Priyanka Gautam, Amélie Ferran, Olav Romcke & R. Jason Hearst
Transport and mixing of particles and scalars in waves and turbulence: recent results from experiments  

10.20-10.30

Discussion

10.30-11.00

BREAK  

11.00-12.30

Session 2 – Chair: Henrik Kalisch

11.00-11.20

J. N. Steer, M. L. McAllister, S. Draycott, T. A. A. Adcock, J-R. Bidlot, F. Dias, Y. Zheng, Z. Lin, W. Zhao & Ton S. van den Bremer
Wave breaking probability in directional sea states    

11.20-11.40

Frédéric Dias, A. Mansar, M. Turner & T. Bridges
A theory for three-dimensional wave breaking based on crest instability of short-crested Stokes waves     

11.40-12.00    

Karsten Trulsen, Carl Trygve Stansberg & Kristian B. Dysthe
Experimental evidence of transversal modulation and frequency downshift of uniform waves in a long tank    

12.00-12.20    

Atle Jensen & Øystein Lande
Numerical – and physical wave tank      

12.20-12.30    

Discussion  

12.30-13.30

LUNCH  

13.30-15.00

Session 3 – Chair: David Dritschel

13.30-13.50

Magda Carr, Samuel Hartharn-Evans, Jack Smith & Marek Stastna
Shoaling of internal solitary waves over rough sloping topography   

13.50-14.10

Marek Stastna & Chichi Zhou
Direct numerical simulations of subsurface cores in internal solitary-like waves with background shear    

14.10-14.30

Peter Diamessis, Tilemachos Bolioudakis, Theodoros Diamantopoulos, Ren-Chieh Lien, Kevin Lamb, Gustavo Rivera-Rosario & Greg Thomsen
Some aspects of turbulence formation and development in convectively unstable shoaling internal solitary waves with subsurface recirculating cores 

14.30-1450

Ricardo Lopes-Barros, A. Doak, W. Choi & P. A. Milewski
A classification of mode-1 internal solitary waves in a three-layer fluid

14.50-15.00     

Discussion

15.00-15.20

BREAK  

15.20-16.50

Session 4 – Chair: David McKee

15.20-15.40

Martin Ludvigsen
Autonomous underwater robotic operations for resident and collaborating vehicles

15.40-16.00

Ignacio Carlucho
Autonomous underwater robots for inspection in offshore renewable energy

16.00-16.20

Alexander Phillips
The role of long range Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for oceanographic data gathering

16.20-16.40

Lewis Drysdale, Neil J. Fraser & Mark E. Inall
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles and gliders for multi-scale ocean science in the Polar and North Atlantic oceans

16.40-16.50

Discussion

16.50-17.10

BREAK  

17.10-18.40

Session 5 – Chair: Karsten Trulsen

17.10-17.30

Henrik Kalisch, Maria Bjørnestad, Marc Buckley, Ruben Carrasco-Alvarez, Marius Cysewski, Sébastien Fromenteau, Hege G. Frøysa, Karoline Holand, Jochen Horstmann, Michael Streβer & Rosa Maria Vargas-Magana
Lagrangian dynamics in ocean waves

17.30-17.50

Karen Samseth, Karsten Trulsen & Atle Jensen
Experimental measurements of disturbances on a free surface vortex

17.50-18.10

Jan Erik Weber
Eulerian contributions to the particle velocity in Stokes and Gerstner waves

18.10-18.30

Zhiling Liao & Qingping Zou
Mass transport induced by infragravity wave: Theory and numerical validation

18.30-18.40

Discussion

18.40-19.10

19.10-19.45

19.45-22.00     

BREAK  

Reception (Royal Society of Edinburgh)

SYMPOSIUM DINNER (Royal Society of Edinburgh)

DAY 2: THURSDAY, 23 OCTOBER 2025

09.00-10.55

Session 6 – Chair: Mark Inall

09.00-09.20

Göran Broström, Kai Christensen, Jan Erik Weber, Morten Køltzow, Rolf H Myhre
Offshore wind farms, vorticity and upwelling

09.20-09.40

Jeffrey R. Carpenter, Nobuhiro Suzuki, Travis Miles, Glen Gawarkiewicz & Josh T. Kohut
Parameterising ocean mixing by turbine foundation wakes

09.40-10.00

Tom Rippeth & Ben Lincoln
Diapcynal mixing in seasonally stratified shelf seas in a changing world

10.00-10.20     

David McKee & Rodney Forster
Monopile-induced turbulence and sediment redistribution form visible wakes in offshore wind farms

10.20-10.40

Michela De Dominicis, J. Jardine, R. O’Hara Murray, A. Zampollo, W. MacDonald, C. Williams, J. Wihsgott, A. Gallego, M. Palmer & B. Scott
How offshore wind farms can stir the sea: North Sea responses to wind energy and climate change

10.40-10.55

Discussion

10.55-11.25

BREAK  

11.25-12.55 

Session 7 – Chair: Atle Jensen

11.25-11.45

Anirban Guha
Long interfacial wave induced short wave instabilities

11.45-12.05

Rob A.Hall, Peter M. F. Sheehan & Veerle A. I. Huvenne
Intensified internal tides in Celtic Sea submarine canyons observed by a deep ocean glider

12.05-12.25

Mark Inall, Neil Fraser & Arild Sundfjord
Glacial ice front calving: IW generation and melting

12.25-12.45

John Grue    
Characterization of shear instability in long and strong internal waves measured by CTD devices  

12.45-12.55     

Discussion

12.55-13.55

LUNCH  

13.55-15.50

Session 8 – Chair:  Kai Håkon Christensen

13.55-14.15

Philip Gillibrand & Stuart Anderson
Some observations and simulations of horizontal dispersion in Scottish inshore waters in relation to aquaculture discharges.

14.15-14.35

Josh Shelton
Subharmonic instability of large-amplitude gravity-capillary waves

14.35-14.55

Neil Fraser, Alan D. Fox & Chris W. Hughes
Pycnostrophic coordinates and their application to meridional overturning

14.55-15.15    

David Dritschel & Matthias Frey
The surface quasi-geostrophic model

15.15-15.35

Jacques Venneste, H. Wang, A. B. Villas-Bôas & W. R. Young
Current-induced modulations of oceanic surface waves

15.35-15.50

Discussion

15.50-16.00

16.05

Closing remarks. John Grue, Peter Davies

Adjourn