Dr David W. Rees Jones
Director of Teaching
Lecturer
- Phone
- +44 (0)1334 46 3715
- david.reesjones@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Office
- 319 MI
- Location
- Mathematical Institute
Research areas
I use mathematical analysis and computational simulations to understand a wide range of geophysical and environmental fluid flows. I focus on situations in which melting and solidification are significant, such as the generation and transport of molten magma from deep within the Earth, and the formation of sea ice in the Polar Oceans. For further details about my research, please see my personal website.
Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher in subduction-zone geodynamics at Bullard Laboratories, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, working with Dr John Rudge and at the FoaLab Laboratory for Geodynamics at the University of Oxford with Prof. Richard Katz. Subduction zones are a crucial part of the Earth’s tectonic system, which controls the cycling of volatile chemicals such as water and carbon on long geological timescales. We are developing physical models of the coupled fluid flow and thermal and chemical transport, and implementing these in open-source simulation code based on PETSc and available for community use. I am also working on physical models of reactive flow instabilities, which may explain the formation of tabular dunites in ophiolites.
I am also interested in the interaction between sea ice and fluid dynamics. Sea ice is a sensitive part of the climate system and is responding dramatically to Arctic warming. I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford in the group of Prof. Andrew Wells where I worked on frazil-ice formation. I studied Mathematics, leading to a PhD on convective flow within sea ice in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Prof. Grae Worster.
Selected publications
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Open access
Magmatic channelization by reactive and shear-driven instabilities at mid-ocean ridges: a combined analysis
Rees Jones, D. W., Zhang, H. & Katz, R. F., Jul 2021, In: Geophysical Journal International. 226, 1, p. 582–609Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fast magma ascent, revised estimates from the deglaciation of Iceland
Rees Jones, D. W. & Rudge, J., 15 Jul 2020, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 542, 9 p., 116324.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The effect of melt pond geometry on the distribution of solar energy under first-year sea ice
Horvat, C., Flocco, D., Rees Jones, D. W., Roach, L. & Golden, K. M., 17 Feb 2020, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 47, 4, e2019GL085956.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Consequences of glacial cycles for magmatism and carbon transport at mid-ocean ridges
Cerpa, N. G., Rees Jones, D. W. & Katz, R. F., 15 Dec 2019, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 528, 115845.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Frazil-ice growth rate and dynamics in mixed layers and sub-ice-shelf plumes
Rees Jones, D. W. & Wells, A. J., 8 Jan 2018, In: The Cryosphere. 12, 1, p. 25-38 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Thermal impact of magmatism in subduction zones
Rees Jones, D. W., Katz, R. F., Tian, M. & Rudge, J. F., 1 Jan 2018, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 481, p. 73-79 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The frequency and extent of sub-ice phytoplankton blooms in the Arctic Ocean
Horvat, C., Rees Jones, D. W., Iams, S., Schroeder, D., Flocco, D. & Feltham, D., 29 Mar 2017, In: Science Advances. 3, 3, 8 p., e1601191.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Sea-ice thermodynamics and brine drainage
Worster, M. G. & Rees Jones, D. W., Jul 2015, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 373, 2045, 13 p., 20140166.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A physically based parameterization of gravity drainage for sea-ice modeling
Rees Jones, D. W. & Worster, M. G., 1 Sept 2014, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 119, 9, p. 5599-5621 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fluxes through steady chimneys in a mushy layer during binary alloy solidification
Rees Jones, D. W. & Worster, M. G., 10 Jan 2013, In: Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 714, p. 127-151Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review