Physical Oceanography Consultant (various): TReX project (MEOPAR, Canada), Municipal Water Quality (Metro Vancouver, Canada), BATS analyst (BIOS, Bermuda)
Education
2017–2024: PhD Oceanography (switched from MSc. in September 2019), University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada, Supervisor: Dr. Rich Pawlowicz
2010–2013: BSc Oceanography, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K., Supervisor: Dr. Eleanor Frajka-Williams
Teaching
Sessional Lecturer
Methods in Oceanography (EOSC 473/573) - UBC, 2022
Teaching Assistant
Modern Observational Oceanography - BIOS, 2019
The Fluid Earth: Atmosphere and Ocean (EOSC 112) - UBC, 2018
Computer Methods in Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (EOSC 211) - UBC, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Students
Elli Cunningham - NSERC-USRA student (supervisor), 2022: Elli worked on testing, developing, and deploying "Swish floats".
Iris Gao - Co-op student (co-supervisor), 2019: Iris' research continued on from Forbes' (below), applying an empirical CDOM-salinity relationship to measurements at various wastewater outfalls around Vancouver to track immediate wastewater dispersal.
Forbes Choy - Co-op student (co-supervisor), 2018: Forbes researched the immediate dispersal of wastewater at an effluent outfall at First Narrows, Vancouver, developing an empirical CDOM-salinity relationship to identify wastewater without the need for water sampling.
Fieldwork
Research cruises:
39 x BATS/Hydrostation "S" cruises (11 as chief scientist) aboard the R/V Atlantic Explorer; 1 x BATS cruise aboard the R/V Endeavor; 1 x Salish Sea cruise aboard the CCGS Vector, 1 x Gulf of St. Lawrence TReX deep cruise aboard the R/V Coriolis II.
Coastal fieldwork:
Highly experienced leading and participating in coastal fieldwork on small/medium sized coastal vessels and hovercrafts in shelf, estuary, reef, and fjord environments.
Selected Awards
Four–year fellowship, 2019–2023, UBC: The Four Year Doctoral Fellowship program provides financial support and base-level funding for outstanding domestic and international doctoral students at UBC.
W.H. Mathews scholarship, 2020 & 2022, UBC: Department scholarship in memory of W. H. Mathews, a UBC graduate and professor who pioneered the study of subglacial eruptions and volcano-ice interactions.
Robert Rutherford RAE Scholarship 2023: Endowed scholarship to support a student in oceanography.
George L. Pickard Scholarship in Oceanography 2023: Endowed scholarship recognizing outstanding originality and promise of success in multidisciplinary areas of oceanography.
TReX Graduate Award, 2021–2022: Funding to attract and support graduate students to conduct research activities on the TReX project that will contribute to a part of the student’s doctoral thesis research.
Selected Workshops
Fire Across the Land: Truth and Reconciliation Workshop, Vancouver, 2023: An experiential workshop to provide education and insights into the collective trauma that has impacted Native people throughout Canada's history.
International Summer School on Radio Oceanography, Victoria, Canada, 2019: a week-long class based on the use of high frequency (HF) radar for oceanography.
Sea-Bird Electronics CTD Bootcamp, Seattle, USA, 2015 : A week-long class at the Sea-Bird Electronics facillity covering CTDs and commonly used sensors, theory and operation, data processing, and maintenance and repair.
Selected Presentations
2023 CMOS Congress, St. Johns, Canada (session co-convener: Lagrangian perspectives on ocean transport and mixing)
"Swish floats- an inexpensive neutrally buoyant float to monitor dispersion in coastal seas"
Authors: Samuel W. Stevens, Rich Pawlowicz
2023 CMOS Congress, St. Johns, Canada
"Initial tracer dispersion measurements in the TReX deep tracer release experiment"
Authors: Samuel W. Stevens, Douglas W.R. Wallace, Lennart Gerke, William A. Nesbitt, Toste Tanhua, Rich Pawlowicz
2020 AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego, USA
"Using seasonality to trace water masses in a coastal ocean"
Authors: S.W. Stevens, R. Pawlowicz
2020 AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego, USA
"Meridional Heat and Salinity Budgets of the Sargasso Sea Inferred from Two Decades of Ocean Time-series and Transect Observations"
Authors: R.J. Johnson, N.R. Bates, M.W. Lomas, S.W. Stevens, P. Lethaby, Z. Anderson, F. Pacheco, A. Knap
2017 ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, USA
"Investigating the Interannual and Mesoscale Erosion of North Atlantic Subtropical Mode Water Within the Sargasso Sea"
Authors: S.W. Stevens, R.J. Johnson, N.R. Bates
2016 AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, USA
"Physical and Biogeochemical Factors Affecting Deep Oxygen Minimum Zone Variability at BATS"
Authors: S.W. Stevens, R.J. Johnson, N.R. Bates, R.J. Parsons