Oliver Andrews

I am a climate and ocean scientist in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York. I lead York's Marine & Coastal Environments, Ecosystems & People Research network and am an affiliate member of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.

Current research topics in my group include:

  • Marine extreme events
  • Ocean deoxygenation and the OMZs
  • Climate impacts on the Northwest European shelf
  • Ocean carbon cycle processes
  • Climate impacts on human health

You can find my publications on Google Scholar.

Background

I joined York as a Senior Lecturer in 2023 after five years as a Lecturer in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol. I did my PhD in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and postdoctoral research in the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at UEA. I have held visiting scientist positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania.

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Oliver Andrews

Contact details:

Dr Oliver Andrews
Department of Environment and Geography
University of York
York YO10 5NG
UK

Email: oliver.andrews@york.ac.uk

Current Group

We are always looking for motivated research students, postdocs or fellows to join the team. Feel free to contact me directly. Current group members are working on:

Catherine Berridge

Catherine Berridge

Catherine is a PhD student at York working on the consequences of marine heatwaves for terrestrial and marine systems in Northwestern Europe. CASE support from the Met Office (Ségolène Berthou, Alex Arnold), co-supervised by Cefas (Bryony Townhill) and Liverpool (Alessandro Tagliabue).

Mariana Maia Pacheco

Mariana Maia Pacheco

Mariana is a PhD student at Bristol working on marine heatwaves and biogeochemical extreme events in models and the role of eddies. Project co-supervised by GEOMAR (Ivy Frenger), University of Gothenburg (Bastien Queste) and Bristol (Fanny Monteiro).

Former Group Members

Former postdocs and research students (PhD and MScR) from the group continue to do great things. Look them up!

Alan Kennedy-Asser

Alan Kennedy-Asser

Alan is a Senior Research Associate in the School of Geographical Sciences at Bristol and led work on UK heatwaves and heat stress as part of on our IMPRES and OpenCLIM UK Climate Resilience programme projects (2019 - 2023).

Ben Blackledge

Ben Blackledge

Ben (PhD, 2020 - 2024) worked on developing a mechanistic understanding of marine oxygen dynamics using CMIP class models and the application of causal inference methods. Now at Liverpool.

Jamie Atkins

Jamie Atkins

Jamie (MScR, 2019 - 2021) worked to quantify the contribution of ocean mesoscale eddies to low oxygen extreme events. in collaboration with GEOMAR (Ivy Frenger). Now at Utrecht.

Will Major

Will Major

Will (MScR, 2019 - 2021) worked to characterise marine heatwaves and low oxygen extremes in the Mediterranean Sea in collaboration with PML (Susan Kay). Now at the National Oceanography Centre.

Meg Rounsley

Meg Rounsley

Meg (MScR, 2020 - 2022) worked on marine heatwaves and surface chlorophyll-a extremes in the global ocean. Now at RPS.

Publications

In Review

Matthews, B., Nicholls, R. J., Smith, A., Robson, C., Butters, O., Jenkins, K., Kennedy-Asser, A. T., Andrews, O., Dawson, R. J., Ford, A., He, Y., Smith, B., Warren, R., Price, J., Minns, A., and Sayers, P.: A modelling framework for national climate risk assessment. Environ. Model. Softw. Submitted.
McPartland, M. Y., Lovato, T., Koven, C. D., Wilson, J. D., Turner, B., Petrik, C. M., Licón-Saláiz, J., Li, F., Lhardy, F., Kinney, J. C., Kawamiya, M., Hassler, B., Gillett, N. P., Fall, C. M. N., Danek, C., Brierley, C. M., Bastos, A., and Andrews, O.: CMIP7 Data Request: Earth System Priorities and Opportunities. Geosci. Model Dev. Submitted.
Maia Pacheco, M., Andrews, O., Frenger, I., Dunne, J., Queste, B., and Monteiro, F.: The role of ocean model resolution in simulating marine biogeochemical extremes. Nat. Commun. Submitted.

Published

Kennedy-Asser, A.T., Andrews, O., Montgomery, J., Jenkins, K.L., Smith, B.A., Lewis, E., Birkinshaw, S.J., He, H., Pywell, R.F., Brown, M.J. and Redhead, J.W.: The role of local knowledge in enhancing climate change risk assessments in rural Northern Ireland. Clim. Risk Manag., p.100702, 2025.
Mitchell, D., Lo, Y.E., Ball, E., Godwin, J.L., Andrews, O., Barciela, R., Ford, L.B., Di Napoli, C., Ebi, K.L., Fučkar, N.S. and Gasparrini, A.: Expert judgement reveals current and emerging UK climate-mortality burden. Lancet Planet. Health, 8(9), pp. e684-e694, 2024.
Mackay, N., Sohail, T., Zika, J. D., Williams, R. G., Andrews, O., and Watson, A. J.: An optimal transformation method applied to diagnose the ocean carbon budget. Geosci. Model Dev., 17(15), 5987-6005, 2024.
Warren, R., Price, J., Forstenhäusler, N., Andrews, O., Brown, S., Ebi, K., Gernaat, D., Goodwin, P., Guan, D., He, Y. and Manful, D.: Risks associated with global warming of 1.5 to 4° C above pre-industrial levels in human and natural systems in six countries. Clim. Change, 177, 2024.
Zheng, Q, Bingham, R and Andrews, O.: Using Sea Level to Determine the Strength, Structure and Variability of the Cape Horn Current. Geophys. Res. Lett., 50, e2023GL105033, 2023.
Jenkins, K., Kennedy-Asser, A., Andrews, O., and Lo, E.: Updated projections of UK heat-related mortality using policy-relevant global warming levels and socio-economic scenarios. Environ. Res. Lett., 2022.
Wilson, J., Andrews, O. et al. (12): The Biological Carbon Pump in CMIP6 models: 21st century trends and uncertainties. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A, 119, e2204369119, 2022.
Atkins, J., Andrews, O., and Frenger, I.: Quantifying the Contribution of Ocean Mesoscale Eddies to Low Oxygen Extreme Events. Geophys. Res. Lett., 49, e2022GL098672, 2022.
Thompson, V., Kennedy-Asser, A., Vosper, E., Lo, E., Huntingford, C., Andrews, O., Collins, M., Hegerl, G., and Mitchell, D.: The 2021 western North America heatwave amongst the most extreme events ever recorded globally. Sci. Adv., 8, eabm6860, 2022.
Warren, R., Andrews, O., et al. (11): Quantifying risks avoided by limiting global warming to 1.5 or 2°C above pre-industrial levels. Clim. Change, 172, 2022.
Mitchell, D., Stone, E., Andrews, O. et al. (11): The Bristol CMIP6 Data Hackathon. Weather, 2022.
Kennedy-Asser, A, Owen, G., Griffith, G., Andrews, O., Lo, E., Mitchell, D., Jenkins, K., and Warren, R.: Projected risks associated with heat stress in the UK Climate Projections (UKCP18). Environ. Res. Lett., 17, 034024, 2022.
Kennedy-Asser, A., Andrews, O., Mitchell, D., and Warren, R.: Evaluating heat extremes in the UK Climate Projections (UKCP18). Environ. Res. Lett., 16, 014039, 2021.
Hopkins, F., Suntharalingham, P., Gehlen, M., Andrews, O. et al. (20): The impacts of ocean acidification on marine trace gases and implications for atmospheric chemistry and climate. Proc. R. Soc. A., 476, 2237, 2020.
DeVries, T., Le Quéré, C., Andrews, O., Berthet, S., Hauck, J., Ilyina, T., Landschützer, P, Lenton, A., Lima, I., Nowicki, M., Schwinger, J., and Séférian, R.: Decadal trends in the ocean carbon sink. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A, 116, 2019.
Andrews, O., Le Quéré, C., Kjellstrom, T., Lemke, B., and Haines, A.: Implications for workability and survivability in populations exposed to extreme heat under climate change: a modelling study. Lancet Planet. Health, 2, e540-47, 2018.
Turney, C., Palmer, J., Maslin, M., Hogg, A., Fogwill, C., Southon, J., Fenwick, P., Bronk-Ramsey, C., Thomas, Z., Lipson, M., Beaven, B., Jones, R., Andrews, O., and Hua, Q.: Global peak in atmospheric radiocarbon defines the onset of the Anthropocene Epoch in 1965. Sci. Rep., 8, 2018.
Le Quéré, C., Andrew, R. M., Friedlingstein, P., Sitch, S., Pongratz, J., Manning, A. C., Korsbakken, J. I., Peters, G. P., Canadell, J. G., Jackson, R. B., Boden, T. A., Tans, P. P., Andrews, O. et al. (64): Global Carbon Budget 2017. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 405-448, 2018.
Andrews, O., Buitenhuis, E., Le Quéré, C. and Suntharalingam, P: Biogeochemical modelling of dissolved oxygen in a changing ocean. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 375, 2017.
Le Quéré, C., Andrew, R. M., Canadell, J. G., Sitch, S., Korsbakken, J. I., Peters, G. P., Manning, A. C., Boden, T. A., Tans, P. P., Houghton, R. A., Keeling, R. F., Alin, S., Andrews, O. et al. (54): Global Carbon Budget 2016. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 8, 605 – 649, 2016.
Eyring, V., Righi, M., Lauer, A., Evaldsson, M., Wenzel, S., Jones, C., Anav, A., Andrews, O. et al. (27): ESMValTool (v1.0) – a community diagnostic and performance metrics tool for routine evaluation of Earth system models in CMIP. Geosci. Model Dev., 9, 1747-1802, 2016.
Andrews, O. D., Bindoff, N. L., Halloran, P. R., Ilyina, T., and Le Quéré, C.: Detecting an external influence on recent changes in oceanic oxygen using an optimal fingerprinting method. Biogeosciences, 10, 1799-1813, 2013.
Andrews, O. D., Contributing Author in: Ciais, P. et al. (14 LAs, 3 RAs): Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles, in: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of WG I to IPCC AR5, edited by: Stocker, T., et al., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA, 2013.