Interests
I am a marine scientist and numerical modeller working on climate change impacts on the ocean. I work across physical oceanography, climate science, ecology, evolution, and geoscience; I strongly believe that many of the greatest challenges our ocean faces can only be addressed through collaborative and interdisciplinary science. I’m particularly interested in understanding how ocean currents transport marine organisms (and other substances such as pollution) around the ocean, how this transport is driven by variability in the ocean-climate system, and resulting impacts on marine ecosystems. I’m also interested in how coral reef systems respond to climate change and oceanic forcing across spatial and temporal scales, including what we can learn about coral reef futures from their response to past environmental disturbance.
Biography
I obtained my DPhil in Earth Sciences from the University of Oxford, before moving to the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology as a NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow. I also briefly worked in Germany (Heidelberg University) and Japan (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology), the latter cementing the Ryukyu Arc as my favourite coral reef system. I returned to the University of Oxford in 2025 as an Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow at St Hugh’s College.
Teaching
I teach modules and field courses in oceanography and climate for the undergraduate Earth Sciences course, and I am a personal tutor for Earth Sciences undergraduates at St Hugh’s (along with Thomas Aubry).
Key publications
Vogt-Vincent et al. (2025) Anthropogenic climate change will likely outpace coral range expansion. Science Advances, 11. DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adr2545
Vogt-Vincent et al. (2024) Coral reef potential connectivity in the southwest Indian Ocean. Coral Reefs, 43. DOI:10.1007/s00338-024-02521-9
Vogt-Vincent et al. (2023) High-frequency variability dominates potential connectivity between remote coral reefs. Limnology and Oceanography, 68. DOI:10.1002/lno.12455
Vogt-Vincent et al. (2023) Sources of marine debris for Seychelles and other remote islands in the western Indian Ocean. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 187. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.114497
