Profile

I am Profesor de Investigación in the Spanish Consejo Superior de investigaciones Científicas in the Departamento de Oceanoloxía at Instituto de Investigacions Mariñas in Vigo. Following my undergraduate studies in Physics and Oceanography, I completed my Doctorate and then went on to work in the United States and Mexico for a number of years. On returning to the UK, I worked on research contracts until in 1983 taking post of Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer at University College of North Wales. In 2004, I moved to my present position in Spain.

My research interests have focussed on Eastern Boundary Current systems of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. These are locations of coastal upwelling, a process that sustains much of the oceans production and fisheries. In recent years I have worked increasingly closely with biogeochemists and zoologists on the intricate relations at meso and smaller scales that govern these large marine ecosystems. These systems are subject to major changes associated with climate variability and anthropogenic activity, but are still incompletely understood. On a more regional scale, I have studied the circulation and processes associated with oceanic islands and recently completed intensive work on circulation within the small semi-enclosed Ria de Vigo, both in a strongly multi-disciplinary context.

Since Spring 2009 I have had the privilege and pleasure of being an Editor of Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, and as of July 2010 am acting as Editor-in-Chief.

Some Recent Publications

Barton, E.D. and J. Arístegui (2004) The Canary Islands Transition – upwelling, eddies and filaments. Progress in Oceanography, 62, 2-4, 67-69.

Arístegui, J., X.A.Alvarez-Salgado, E.D.Barton, F.G.Figueiras, S.Hernández-Leon, C. Roy and A.M.P. Santos (2004) Oceanography and Fisheries of the Canary Current/Iberian Region of the North Atlantic. In: The Global Coastal Ocean: Interdisciplinary Regional Studies and Syntheses (The Sea: Ideas and Observations on Progress in the Study of the Seas, Vol. 14), Eds. A.R. Robinson y K. Brink, Harvard University Press, ISBN: 0674015274, chapter 23.

Álvarez-Salgado, X.A., J.Arístegui, E.D.Barton, D.A. Hansell, R. Sanders (2006) Contributions of upwelling filaments to net heterotrophic systems in the ocean carbon cycle, Limnology & Oceanography 52(3), 2007, 1287–1292.

Relvas, P., Barton, E. D., Dubert, J., Oliveira, P.B., Peliz, A., da Silva, J. C., and Santos, A.M.P. (2007) Physical oceanography of the Western Iberia Ecosystem: latest views and challenges. Progress in Oceanography, 74, 149–173.

Barton E.D., M. Lavin and A. Trasviña (2009) Near-shore circulation of the Gulf of Tehuantepec under offshore wind. Continental Shelf Research, 29, 485–500.

Full list of publications.