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Overview

Russell B. Wynn is affiliated with the National Oceanography Centre in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science, focusing on ecology, oceanography, and global and planetary change. The scholar's work also addresses ecological modeling and combines aspects of ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their research topics include underwater acoustics, marine animal studies, marine and fisheries research, species distribution in relation to climate change, avian ecology and behavior, and animal behavior and reproduction.

Recent publications demonstrate engagement with these themes. Notable papers include:

  • Assessing the Repeatability of Automated Seafloor Classification Algorithms, with Application in Marine Protected Area Monitoring (2020, Remote Sensing)
  • Climate change drives migratory range shift via individual plasticity in shearwaters (2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Frequent collaborators in their work consist of America Zelada Leon, Veerle A.I. Huvenne, Noëlie M.A. Benoist, Matthew Ferguson, and Brian J. Bett.

Publication venues where Russell B. Wynn's work appears regularly include:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs): Their past, present and future contributions to the advancement of marine geoscience

    Russell B. Wynn;Veerle A.I. Huvenne;Timothy P. Le Bas;Bramley J. Murton

  • Submarine landslides: processes, triggers and hazard prediction

    D.G Masson;C.B Harbitz;R.B Wynn;G Pedersen

  • Classification and characterisation of deep-water sediment waves

    Russell B. Wynn;Dorrik A.V. Stow

  • Onset of submarine debris flow deposition far from original giant landslide

    P.-J. Talling;R.-B. Wynn;D.-G. Masson;M. Frenz

  • Sinuous deep-water channels: Genesis, geometry and architecture

    Russell B. Wynn;Bryan T. Cronin;Jeff Peakall

  • Beds comprising debrite sandwiched within co-genetic turbidite: origin and widespread occurrence in distal depositional environments

    P. J. Talling;L. A. Amy;L. A. Amy;R. B. Wynn;J. Peakall

  • Continental margin sedimentation, with special reference to the north‐east Atlantic margin

    Philip P. E. Weaver;Russell B. Wynn;Neil H. Kenyon;Jeremy Evans

  • Characterization and recognition of deep-water channel-lobe transition zones

    Russell B. Wynn;Neil H. Kenyon;Douglas G. Masson;Dorrik A. V. Stow

  • The origin of deep-water, coral-topped mounds in the northern Rockall Trough, northeast Atlantic

    D.G Masson;B.J Bett;D.S.M Billett;C.L Jacobs

  • Sedimentary features and processes in the Nazaré and Setúbal submarine canyons, west Iberian margin

    Raquel G. Arzola;Russell B. Wynn;Galderic Lastras;Douglas G. Masson

  • The Northwest African slope apron: a modern analogue for deep-water systems with complex seafloor topography

    Russell B Wynn;Douglas G Masson;Dorrik A.v Stow;Phillip P.e Weaver

  • Turbidite depositional architecture across three interconnected deep‐water basins on the north‐west African margin

    Russell B. Wynn;Philip P. E. Weaver;Douglas G. Masson;Dorrik A. V. Stow

  • Turbidity current sediment waves on the submarine slopes of the western Canary Islands

    Russell B Wynn;Douglas G Masson;Dorrik A.V Stow;Philip P.E Weaver

  • Sedimentary processes in the Selvage sediment‐wave field, NE Atlantic: new insights into the formation of sediment waves by turbidity currents

    Russell B. Wynn;Philip P. E. Weaver;Gemma Ercilla;Dorrik A. V. Stow

  • Geomorphology and sedimentary features in the Central Portuguese submarine canyons, western Iberian margin

    G. Lastras;G. Lastras;R.G. Arzola;D.G. Masson;R.B. Wynn

  • Near‐synchronous and delayed initiation of long run‐out submarine sediment flows from a record‐breaking river flood, offshore Taiwan

    L. Carter;J. D. Milliman;P. J. Talling;R. Gavey

  • New insight into the evolution of large‐volume turbidity currents: comparison of turbidite shape and previous modelling results

    Peter J. Talling;Lawrence A. Amy;Russell B. Wynn

  • Generation and migration of coarse-grained sediment waves in turbidity current channels and channel–lobe transition zones

    Russell B Wynn;David J.W Piper;Martin J.R Gee

  • New insights into the morphology, fill, and remarkable longevity (>0.2 m.y.) of modern deep-water erosional scours along the northeast Atlantic margin

    Heather A. Macdonald;Heather A. Macdonald;Russell B. Wynn;Veerle A.I. Huvenne;Jeff Peakall

  • Large Landslides on Passive Continental Margins: Processes, Hypotheses and Outstanding Questions

    D. G. Masson;R. B. Wynn;P. J. Talling

  • Bed geometry used to test recognition criteria of turbidites and (sandy) debrites

    L.A. Amy;L.A. Amy;P.J. Talling;J. Peakall;R.B. Wynn

  • Sedimentological and geochemical evidence for multistage failure of volcanic island landslides: A case study from Icod landslide on north Tenerife, Canary Islands

    James E. Hunt;James E. Hunt;Russell B. Wynn;Douglas G. Masson;Peter J. Talling

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas G. Masson
Douglas G. Masson Seascape Consultants (United Kingdom)
Esther J. Sumner
Esther J. Sumner University of Southampton
Peter J. Talling
Peter J. Talling Durham University
Jeff Peakall
Jeff Peakall University of Leeds
Sebastian Krastel
Sebastian Krastel Kiel University
Daniel R. Parsons
Daniel R. Parsons University of Hull
Stephen E. Darby
Stephen E. Darby University of Southampton
Veerle A.I. Huvenne
Veerle A.I. Huvenne National Oceanography Centre
Philip Pe Weaver
Philip Pe Weaver National Oceanography Centre
Dorrik A. V. Stow
Dorrik A. V. Stow Heriot-Watt University

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