John Shepherd

Publications & Presentations

Recent Publications

For publications since 2000 follow the link on my University home page

For list of publications prior to 2002 click Here

Recent Presentations, Pre-prints & General Publications (as PDF files)

Earth System Modelling

QUEST and Modelling of the Earth System (Presentation to NERC town meeting, 2003)

The Earth System (General lecture, May 2003)

Earth System Models (especially those of Intermediate Complexity) (General lecture, May 2003)

Climate Science

Climate Change: The Big Picture (Why Mitigation is Essential): (Scientific Alliance symposium "2020 Vision: Powering the UK’s Future" May 2003)

The Science of Climate Change: The IPCC Third Assessment, and its Implications : (Highgrove Briefing, 2001)

Radiative-convective models of "grey" atmospheres (Lecture notes)

Mathematical methods

Overcoming the CFL time-step limitation: a simple, effective and stable iterative implicit numerical scheme for slowly evolving advection-diffusion systems. (Paper submitted to Ocean Modelling (August 2001); revised Feb/March 2002)

Fisheries Science

Are Fisheries Sustainable Resources? … biological, environmental & socio-economic issues (Presentation to the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, April 2003)

Sustainable Fisheries: Myth or Mirage? (Memorandum prepared for the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, April 2003)

Fishing Effort Control: Could it be made to work under the CFP ? (Fisheries Research, in press, May 2003)

Fisheries Management: Breaking the Deadlock (pp 233-235 in "Seapower at the Millennium" G. Till (editor), Sutton Publishing, 2001, for Royal Naval Museum Publications)

Key issues in the conservation of fisheries (Lowestoft Laboratory Leaflet No. 72, 1993)

Why fisheries need to be managed, and why technical measures on their own are not enough (Lowestoft Laboratory Leaflet No. 71, 1993)

Aide Memoire on Scientific Advice on Fisheries Management (Lowestoft Laboratory Leaflet No. 70, 1992)

Stability and the Objectives of Fisheries Management: the Scientific Background (Lowestoft Laboratory Leaflet No. 64, 1990)