Jago Strong-Wright

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Hello! I'm Jago, a PhD candidate using modelling to better understand the ocean carbon cycle. My main project has focused on creating a forest scale model of a giant kelp forest including the movement and growth of the individual kelp to try and understand how the kelp effects the total carbon balance and export of their enviroment. I work in the Ocean Dynamics group in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Professor John Taylor.

Software tools

• 🦠OceanBioME.jl - a flexible modelling environment written in Julia for modelling the coupled interactions between ocean biogeochemistry, carbonate chemistry, and physics. OceanBioME can be run as a stand-alone box model, or coupled with Oceananigans.jl to run as a 1D column model or with 2 and 3D physics.
• 🦭Walrus.jl - a Julia package providing various closures models (closure -> seal -> seal 🦭 -> walrus) for ocean flavoured fluid dynamics with Oceananigans.jl.
• 🌿SugarKelp.jl - model of sugar kelp implimented in Julia
• 🌧️getgfs - get NOAA GFS forecasts in Python with no platform specific dependencies

Publications

1. Strong-Wright, J., Taylor, J. R., A model of tidal flow and tracer release in a giant kelp forest. Flow. 10.1017/flo.2024.13 (2024).
2. Chen, S., Strong-Wright, J., Taylor, J. R., Modeling Carbon Dioxide Removal via Sinking of Particulate Organic Carbon from Macroalgae Cultivation. Frontiers in Marine Science, Ocean Solutions. 10.3389/fmars.2024.1359614 (2024).
3. Matthews, J., Strong-Wright, J., Knigge, C., Hewett, P., Temple, M., Long, K., Rankine, A., Stepney, M., Banerji, M., Richards, G., A disc wind model for blueshifts in quasar broad emission lines. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 10.1093/mnras/stad2895 (2023).
4. Strong-Wright, J., Chen, S., Constantinou, N. C., Silvestri, S., Wagner, G. L., Taylor, J. R., OceanBioME.jl: A flexible environment for modelling the coupled interactions between ocean biogeochemistry and physics. Journal of Open Source Software 8, 5669. 10.21105/joss.05669 (2023).
5. Strong-Wright, J., Taylor, J. R., Modelling the growth potential of the kelp Saccharina latissima in the North Atlantic. Frontiers in Marine Science, Ocean Solutions. 10.3389/fmars.2021.793977 (2022).

Submitted/in review

1. Wagner, G. L., Silvestri, S., Constantinou, N. C., Ramadhan, A., Campin, J.-M., Hill, C., Chor, T., Strong-Wright, J., Lee, X. K., Poulin, F., Souza, A., Burns, K. J., Bishnu, S., Marshall, J., Ferrari, R., High-level, high-resolution ocean modeling at all scales with Oceananigans. Submitted to Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. arxiv.org/abs/2502.14148 (2025).

Conference posters

1. Strong-Wright, J., Taylor, J. R., The impact of flow interaction on carbon sequestration potential in an idealised giant kelp forest. Ocean Science Meeting, 2024. iPoster. ESS Open Archive.
2. Strong-Wright, J., Chen, S., Taylor, J. R., Quantifying Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal Strategies: OceanBioME.jl - a Package for Coupled Ocean Biogeochemical Modelling. Ocean Visions Summit, 2023. PDF and code.