Dr David McKee
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Physics
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Prize And Awards
- 2nd place in Copernicus Masters 2020: BMVI Transport Challenge
- Recipient
- 8/12/2020
- Finalist in E&T Innovation Awards 2020
- Recipient
- 19/11/2020
- NERC Advanced Fellowship
- Recipient
- 2007
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Publications
- Determination of zooplankton absorption spectra and their potential contribution to ocean color
- McCarry Cait L, Basedow Sünnje L, Davies Emlyn J, Last Kim S, McKee David
- Optics Express Vol 32, pp. 41314-41334 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.537062
- Calibration verification of an underwater hyperspectral imaging push broom instrument to measure light in absolute units and field demonstration
- Schartmüller Bernhard, McKee David, Berge Jørgen, Johnsen Geir
- Applied Optics Vol 63, pp. 7200-7211 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.532003
- Monopile-induced turbulence and sediment redistribution form visible wakes in offshore wind farms
- Bailey Lewis P, Dorrell Robert M, Kostakis Ina, Mckee David, Parsons Dan, Rees Jon, Strong James, Simmons Stephen, Forster Rodney
- Frontiers in Earth Science Vol 12 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2024.1383726
- High uptake of sympagic organic matter by benthos on an Arctic outflow shelf
- Cautain Ivan J, Last Kim S, Bluhm Bodil A, Renaud Paul E, McKee David, Narayanaswamy Bhavani E
- PLOS One Vol 19 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0308562
- Optical constituent concentrations and uncertainties obtained for Case 1 and 2 waters from a spectral deconvolution model applied to in situ IOPs and radiometry
- Lo Prejato M, McKee D
- Earth and Space Science Vol 10 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1029/2022ea002815
- Spectral and RGB analysis of the light climate and its ecological impacts using an all-sky camera system in the Arctic
- Grant Stephen, Johnsen Geir, McKee David, Zolich Artur, Cohen Jonathan H
- Applied Optics Vol 62, pp. 5139-5150 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.480454
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Research Interests
Current research areas include:
- Developing ocean colour algorithms for optically complex waters.
- Quantifying zooplankton abundance from space.
- Measuring and modelling light fields in the Arctic.
- Measuring the impact of artificial light at night (ALAN) in the marine environment.
- Developing advanced underwater sensing capabilities.
Professional Activities
- Light in dark places: the impact of ship lights on animal behaviour during polar night
- Speaker
- 6/10/2024
- GlobalHAB/EuroMarine Workshop on Modelling and Prediction of Harmful Algal Blooms
- Organiser
- 1/9/2019
- Invited Talk
- Contributor
- 1/2016
- NEODAAS (External organisation)
- Member
- 6/2015
- NERC Field Spectroscopy Facility (External organisation)
- Member
- 5/2015
- Invited Talk
- Contributor
- 3/2015
Projects
- The impact of artificial light on arctic marine organisms and ecosystems during the polar night (Deep Impact) | Wallace, Ruairidh
- McKee, David (Principal Investigator) Patton, Brian (Co-investigator) Wallace, Ruairidh (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2027
- Optimisation of the Kongsfjorden Rijpfjorden Observatory Program
- McKee, David (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Dec-2026
- Coccolithophore controls on ocean alkalinity (CHALKY)
- McKee, David (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Nov-2023 - 31-Oct-2026
- Assessing potential to remotely observe micro-jellyfish swarms through measurement of absorption characteristics
- McKee, David (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Oct-2023 - 31-Dec-2023
- SAfe Passage through Shifting Sands
- Macdonald, Malcolm (Principal Investigator) Clemente, Carmine (Co-investigator) McKee, David (Co-investigator) Tachtatzis, Christos (Co-investigator) Clark, Ruaridh (Research Co-investigator) Werkmeister, Astrid (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jul-2024
- A roadmap for implementing the SDGs using space data
- White, Chris (Principal Investigator) Morse, Tracy (Co-investigator) Sindico, Francesco (Co-investigator) Vasile, Massimiliano (Co-investigator) McKee, David (Co-investigator)
- Space data offers high-resolution, real-time, global scale earth observation and monitoring of our planet. Over half of the Essential Climate Variables (ECV) can only be measured from space, spanning the oceanic, atmospheric and terrestrial elements of the earth climate system. As well as supporting long term climate monitoring and modelling of impacts and change, space data offers a unique opportunity to support global efforts in reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These include observing global changes over different time scales such as rising sea levels, the quantification of our global carbon footprint, and the accounting of natural capital. Climate change is also increasing the frequency and severity of natural disasters which impact our most vulnerable populations, economies and environments. Space-based assets can support impact-based early-warning forecasts and real-time monitoring solutions to prepare for and respond to natural disasters such as floods, wildfires, and cyclones, as well as contributing to event attribution analyses that can enable relating causes to impacts.
Achieving the SDGs, and harnessing the potential of space data in a changing climate is beyond the reach of any single individual or institution. At Strathclyde, while we are well placed to service the Scottish government's needs on sustainable development, we do not fully understand where our cross-disciplinary expertise lies with regards to both sustainable development and the use of space data. The ambitions of the SDGs call for coordination and collective efforts from across disciplines and institutions. It is therefore critical that Strathclyde’s researchers and thinkers are able to come together in a common SDG vision through a detailed ‘roadmap’ to guide (and collaborate with) the Space Cluster and other external partners in how space data can be used to support sustainable development and the implementation of the SDGs.
The objectives of this project are to:
1.Review the SDGs and global space ECV data, including availability, accessibility, uncertainties and usability, based on existing publications and resources
2.Explore Strathclyde’s cross-disciplinary sustainability and space expertise, supported by the Space Cluster, the CfSD and SCELG, and map Strathclyde’s sustainability and space expertise to the SDGs
3.Review earth observation and space-related sustainable development expertise across the UK
4. Create a ‘roadmap’ for Strathclyde’s Space Cluster, identifying challenges, knowledge gaps and opportunities for external partnerships towards the implementation of the SDGs using space data
TIC Zone Ideas Fund (Strathclyde) (£11,653) - 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Dec-2022