Forensic Oceanography – Challenges in Police search operations

IMarEST TV recording in the Webinar Series by the Ocean Governance Special Interest Group  on the 15th June, presented by Jon Rees, Principal Physical Oceanographer at Cefas (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science) in Lowestoft. With degrees from Warwick, Southampton and UEA, Jon has undertaken oceanographic research from the deep abyssal plains to the Wash salt marshes. Jon lead the development of the national wave monitoring system (WaveNet) and designed seabed landers to investigate sediment/current interactions. .

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This webinar describes the use of operational numerical models in the recovery of Missing Persons for the Police. In these Search and Recovery as opposed to Search and Rescue operations, a number of parameters (buoyancy, time of entry, location) can be varied to produce probability maps of strandings to help optimise police searches on the ground. A number of cases examples will be shown showing successes and failures.