Tom Hull
Autonomous Ocean Systems - Principal Investigator
Greater Norwich Area, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Hull is a Principal Investigator in Autonomous Ocean Systems with 11+ years applying sensors, autonomous platforms and in-situ chemistry to operational oceanography. Based at Cefas and trained with a PhD in chemical and physical oceanography, he designs and deploys buoys, gliders, ferryboxes, surface vehicles and seabed landers to collect biogeochemical data and automate water sampling. He combines hands-on field systems expertise with data processing, numerical modelling and reproducible analysis in R and Python, championing open science and open data. Tom’s work spans sensor integration (CTD, oxygen optodes, fluorometers, radiometers) through end-to-end pipelines, enabling continuous autonomous observation programs used for real-world marine monitoring. An underappreciated strength is his cross-disciplinary fluency—bridging hardware, wet chemistry and software—to turn complex ocean measurements into actionable datasets.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh CampusDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Oceanography, Chemical and Physical, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Oceanography, Chemical and Physical at University of East Anglia
Github Skills (52)
jedi8
resampling8
measurements8
r-package7
calibration7
smoothing7
procedure7
government-data6
outlier-detection6
leaf6
biodiversity6
satellite-images5
ocean5
netcdf5
hydrology5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
CefasRepRes/cefasMOS
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 13 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 4 months
tomhull/airsea
Jun 2015 - Oct 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 26 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 5 months
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