Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR), University of Michigan
Duties: Leading data science and machine learning research in physical limnology, water cycle predictions, and observing system design.
British Antarctic Survey, NERC, UKRI
Duties: Contributing to oceanographic research using adjoint ocean modeling for sensitivity analysis and observational data analysis (e.g., unsupervised classification of Argo float profiles)
Georgia Institute of Technology
Duties: Developing and implementing computational models, assisting with observational campaigns, and collaborating on interdisciplinary research.
Georgia Southern University
Duties: Teaching undergraduate physics and astronomy courses, leading lab sessions, and mentoring students in academic research.
Yao, L., Taylor, J. R., Jones, D. C., & Bachman, S. D. (2025). "Identifying Ocean Submesoscale Activity from Vertical Density Profiles Using Machine Learning." Earth and Space Science, 12, e2022EA002618. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EA002618
Jones, D., and Coauthors (2025). "Mapping Out How Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Will Change Great Lakes Observations, Modeling, and Forecasting in the Coming Decade." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 106, E378–E385. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0304.1
Poropat, L., Jones, D., Thomas, S. D. A., and Heuze, C. (2024). "Unsupervised classification of the northwestern European seas based on satellite altimetry data." Ocean Science, 20, 201-215. https://doi.org/10.5194/os-20-201-2024
Pimm, C., Williams, R. G., Jones, D., and Meijers, A.J.S. (2024). "Surface heat fluxes drive a two-phase response in Southern Ocean mode water stratification." Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129, e2023JC020795. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC020795
Moat, B. I., and Coauthors (2024). "Ocean Heat Convergence and North Atlantic Multidecadal Heat Content Variability." Journal of Climate, 37, 4723–4742. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0370.1
Twelves, A. G., Goldberg, D. N., Holland, P. R., Henley, S. F., Mazloff, M. R., & Jones, D. C. (2024). "Chlorophyll Production in the Amundsen Sea Boosts Heat Flux to Atmosphere and Weakens Heat Flux to Ice Shelves." Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129, e2024JC021121. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JC021121
Furner, R., Haynes, P., Jones, D.C., Munday, D., Paige, B., & Shuckburgh, E. (2024). "The Challenge of Land in a Neural Network Ocean Model." Environmental Data Science, 3, e40. https://doi.org/10.1017/eds.2024.49
McMonigal, K., Evans, N., Jones, D., Brett, J., James, R. C., Arroyo, M. C., et al. (2023). "Navigating gender at sea: Recommendations for making seagoing work safer for transgender and gender diverse scientists." AGU Advances, 4, e2023AV000927. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023AV000927
Meijers, A. J. S., Meredith, M. P., Shuckburgh, E. F., Kent, E. C., Munday, D. R., Firing, Y. L., King, B., Smyth, T. J., Leng, M. J., Nurser, A. J. G., Hewitt, H. T., Abrahamsen, E. P., Weiss, A., Yang, M., Bell, T. G., Brearley, J. A., Boland, E. J. D., Jones, D. C., Josey, S. A., Owen, R. P., Grist, J. P., Blaker, A. T., Biri, S., Yelland, M. J., Pimm, C., Zhou, S., Harle, J., & Cornes, R. C. (2023). "Finale: impact of the ORCHESTRA/ENCORE programmes on Southern Ocean heat and carbon understanding." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 381(2249), 20220070. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2022.0070
Jones D.C., Sonnewald M., Zhou S., Hausmann U., Meijers A. J. S., Rosso I., Boehme L., Meredith M. P., and Naveira Garabato A. C. (2023). "Unsupervised classification identifies coherent thermohaline structures in the Weddell Gyre region." Ocean Science, 19:857-885. https://doi.org/10.5194/os-19-857-2023
Andersson, T., Bruinsma, W.P., Markou, S., Requeima, J., Coca-Castro, A., Vaughan, A., Ellis, A., Lazzara, M.A., Jones, D., Hosking, J.S., Turner, R.E. (2023). "Environmental sensor placement with convolutional Gaussian neural processes." Environmental Data Science, 2, E32. https://doi.org/10.1017/eds.2023.22
Fahrin, F., Jones, D. C., Wu, Y., Keeble, J., and Archibald, A. T. (2023). "Technical note: Unsupervised classification of ozone profiles in UKESM1." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 23, 3609-3627. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-3609-2023
Boland, E.J.D., Dittus, A.J., Jones, D. C., Josey, S.A., and Sinha, B. (2023). "Ocean heat content responses to changing anthropogenic aerosol forcing strength: Regional and multi-decadal variability." Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128, e2022JC018725. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JC018725
Boland E.J.D., Atkinson E., Jones D.C. (2023). "A novel heuristic method for detecting overfit in unsupervised classification of climate model data." Environmental Data Science, 2:e46. https://doi.org/10.1017/eds.2023.40
Aguiar W., Lee S.-K., Lopez H., Dong S., Seroussi H., Jones D.C., and Morrison A.K. (2023). "Antarctic Bottom Water sensitivity to spatio-temporal variations in Antarctic meltwater fluxes." Geophysical Research Letters, 50:e2022GL101595. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101595
Morrison, A., Waugh, D., Hogg, A., Jones, D.C., and Abernathey, R. (2022). "Ventilation of the Southern Ocean pycnocline." Annual Review of Marine Science, 14:1. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-010419-011012
Furner, R., Haynes, P., Munday, D., Paige, B., Jones, D.C., and Shuckburgh, E. (2022). "Sensitivity analysis of a regression model of ocean temperature." Environmental Data Science, Vol. 1, e11. https://doi.org/10.1017/eds.2022.10
Sanders, R.N.C., Jones, D.C., Josey, S., Sinha, B., and Forget, G. (2022). "Causes of the 2015 North Atlantic cold anomaly in a global state estimate." Ocean Science. https://doi.org/10.5194/os-18-953-2022
Boland, E., Jones, D.C., Meijers, A.J.S., Forget, G., and Josey, S.A. (2021). "Local and remote influences on the heat content of Southern Ocean mode water formation regions." Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126, e2020JC016585. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JC016585
Thomas, S.D.A., Jones, D.C., Faul, A., Mackie, E., and Pauthenet, E. (2021). "Defining Southern Ocean fronts using unsupervised classification." Ocean Science, 17, 1545–1562. https://doi.org/10.5194/os-17-1545-2021
Jones, D.C., Ceia, F.R., Murphy, E., Delord, K., Furness, R.W., Verdy, A., Mazloff, M., Phillips, R.A., Sagar, P.M., Sallee, J.-B., Schreiber, B., Thompson, D.R., Torres, L.G., Underwood, P.J., Weimerskirch, H., and Xavier, J.C. (2021). "Untangling local and remote influences in two major petrel habitats in the oligotrophic Southern Ocean." Global Change Biology, 27, 5773–5785. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15839
Sonnewald, M., Leguensat, R., Jones, D.C., Dueben, P., Brajard, J., and Balaji, V. (2021). "Bridging observations, theory, and numerical simulation of the ocean using Machine Learning." Environmental Research Letters, 16, 073008. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac0eb0
Andersson, T., Hosking, J.S., Perez-Ortiz, M., Paige, B., Elliott, A., Russell, C., Law, S., Jones, D.C., Wilkinson, J., Phillips, T., Byrne, J., Tietsche, S., Sarojini, B.B., Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, E., Aksenov, Y., Downie, R., and Shuckburgh, E. (2021). "Seasonal Arctic sea ice forecasting with probabilistic deep learning." Nature Communications, 12, 5124. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25257-4
Twelves, A., Goldberg, D.N., Henley, S.F., Mazloff, M.R., and Jones, D.C. (2021). "Self-shading and meltwater spreading control the transition from light to iron limitation in an Antarctic coastal polynya." Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126, e2020JC016636. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JC016636
Jones, D.C., Boland, E.*, Meijers, A.J., Forget, G., Josey, S., Sallee, J., Shuckburgh, E. (2020). "The Sensitivity of Southeast Pacific Heat Distribution to Local and Remote Changes in Ocean Properties." Journal of Physical Oceanography, 50, 773–790. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-19-0155.1
Mackie, E., Shuckburgh, E., Jones, D.C., Vaughan, D. (2020). "How climate change is affecting sea levels", Weather, 75, 280-280. https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.3716
Jones, D.C., and Ito, T. (2019). Gaussian mixture modeling describes the geography of the surface carbon budget. In: Brajard, J., Charantonis, A., Chen, C., & Runge, J. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Climate Informatics: CI 2019 (pp. 108-113). University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). https://doi.org/10.5065/y82j-f154
Duncan, D.I., Eriksson, P., Pfreundschuh, S., Klepp, C., and Jones, D.C. (2019). "On the distinctiveness of observed oceanic raindrop distributions." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19, 6969-6984. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-6969-2019
Jones, D.C., H.J. Holt, A. Meijers, and E. Shuckburgh (2019). "Unsupervised clustering of Southern Ocean Argo float profiles." Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 124, 390-402. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC014629
Jones, D.C., Boland, E.*, Meijers, A., Forget, G., Josey, S., Sallee, J-B., and Shuckburgh, E. (2019). Heat distribution in the Southeast Pacific is only weakly sensitive to high-latitude heat flux and wind stress. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015460
Jones, D.C., E. Shuckburgh, and E. Hawkins (2019). "How is sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic changing?" Weather, 74: 30-30. https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.3381
Jones, D.C., G. Forget, B. Sinha, S. Josey, E. Boland, A. Meijers, and E. Shuckburgh (2018). "Local and remote influences on the heat content of the Labrador Sea: an adjoint sensitivity study," Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 123. https://doi.org/10.1002/2018JC013774
Mackay, N., J.R. Ledwell, M.-J. Messias, A. Naveira-Garabato, J.A. Brearley, A. Meijers, D.C. Jones, and A.J. Watson (2018). "Diapycnal mixing in the Southern Ocean diagnosed using the DIMES tracer and realistic velocity fields," Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 123. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JC013536
Meijers, A., Meredith, M.P., Abrahamsen, E.P., Morales Maqueda, M.A., Jones, D.C., and Naveira Garabato, A.C. (2016). "Wind-driven export of Weddell Sea slope water," Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 121. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JC011757
Jones, D.C., A. Meijers, E. Shuckburgh, J.-B. Sallée, P. Haynes, E.K. McAulfield, and M.R. Mazloff (2016). "How does Subantarctic Mode Water ventilate the Southern Hemisphere subtropics?", Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 121. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JC011680
Hammond, M.D. and Jones, D.C. (2016). "Freshwater flux from ice sheet melting and iceberg calving in the Southern Ocean," Geoscience Data Journal, 3, 60-62. https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.43
Jones, D.C., T. Ito, T. Birner, A. Klocker, and D. Munday (2015). "Planetary-geometric constraints on isopycnal slope in the Southern Ocean", Journal of Physical Oceanography, 45 (12), 2991-3004. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-15-0034.1
Xavier, J., B. Raymond, D.C. Jones, and H. Griffiths (2015). "Biogeography of cephalopods in the Southern Ocean using habitat suitability prediction models", Ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-015-9926-1
Ceia, F.R., J. Ramos, R. Phillips, Y. Cherel, D.C. Jones, R. Vieira, and J. Xavier (2015). "Analysis of stable isotope ratios in blood of tracked wandering albatrosses fails to distinguish a δ13C gradient within their winter foraging areas in the southwest Atlantic Ocean", Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 29, 2328-2336. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.7401
Jones, D.C., T. Ito, Y. Takano, and W-C. Hsu (2014). "Spatial and seasonal variability of the air-sea equilibration timescale of carbon dioxide", Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 28, 1163-1178. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GB004813
Jones, D.C., T. Ito, and N.S. Lovenduski (2011). "The transient response of the Southern Ocean pycnocline to changing atmospheric winds", Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L15604. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011GL048145
Talk at American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C.
Talk at University of Washington School of Oceanography, Seattle, Washington
Talk at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA
Talk at AGU Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago, Illinois
Talk at AGU Ocean Sciences 2022, Virtual
Talk at Laws Prize Lecture, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK