Peer-reviewed academic publications
Bullock, S., Mason, J., Larkin, A. (2023) Are the IMO’s new targets for international shipping compatible with the Paris Climate Agreement? Climate Policy, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2023.2293081.
Mason, J., Larkin, A., Bullock, S., van der Kolk, N., Broderick, J. (2022) Quantifying voyage optimisation with wind propulsion for short-term CO2 mitigation in shipping. Ocean Engineering, 289, 116065. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2023.116065
Mason, J., Gallego-Schmid, A. (2022) Stochastic uncertainty in fuel-optimised ship routing: how weather forecasts hinder the carbon savings from wind-assisted weather routing. High-Performance Marine Vehicles (HIPER) conference, Cortona, Italy, 2022.
Mason, J. (2021) Quantifying voyage optimisation with wind-assisted ship propulsion: a new climate mitigation strategy for shipping. PhD thesis, The University of Manchester.
Bullock, S., Mason, J., Larkin, A. (2021) The urgent case for stronger climate targets for international shipping, Climate Policy. 22, 3. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2021.1991876
Bullock, S., Mason, J., Broderick, J., Larkin, A. (2020) Shipping and the Paris climate agreement: a focus on committed emissions, BMC Energy 2, 5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42500-020-00015-2
Bordogna, G., van der Kolk, N. J., Mason, J., Bonello, J. M., Vrijdag, A. (2019) Wind-assisted ship propulsion performance prediction, routing and economic modelling – a corrected case study. RINA Wind Propulsion conference, London, UK, 2019
Van der Kolk, N. J., Bordogna, G., Mason, J., Desprairies, P., Vrijdag, A. (2019) Case study: wind-assisted ship propulsion performance prediction, routing and economic modelling. RINA Power and Propulsion Alternatives for Ships, London, UK, 2019.
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February 2024 - Interviewed as an industry expert on low-carbon shipping for Tyndall Talks.
2019 to 2022 - Host of the Tyndall Centre’s official podcast Tyndall Talks. Produced four podcast episodes, interviewing both professors and PhD researchers.
Sep 2022 - Interviewed as an academic expert on low-carbon shipping for Tyndall Talks.
January 2021 - Interviewed on the future of low-carbon shipping for the Global Optimism podcast.
December 2024 - Interviewed by BBC Alba as an industry expert on wind propulsion and low-carbon shipping (TV and radio).
June 2022 - Consultancy research project with the Blue Visby Solution Consortium. Providing academic expertise on the project’s climate impact. Delivered a five-page report analysing the committed carbon emissions of the Blue Visby Solution.
Feb 2022 - Interviewed as an expert on wind propulsion for an article published in La Croix French newspaper.
Jan 2022 - Interviewed as an expert on wind propulsion and low-carbon shipping by Christiaan De Beukelaer for an upcoming book publication.
May 2021 - Interviewed as an expert on wind propulsion by the New York Times.
Nov 2018 - BBC Radio 4 interview on sustainable transport in Manchester City Centre.
June 2022 - Presentation to the Institute of Physics on low-carbon shipping and wind propulsion.
Feb 2022 - Interviewed about my role as a climate change researcher to show at schools across Greater Manchester in the 2022 poetry competition.
May 2019 - “Ask a climate scientist” at the climate strikes 2019.
March 2019 - Science stall at Science X festival 2019 in Manchester.
Jan 2019 - Created a flyer on six-individual actions on climate change. Circulated widely by the Tyndall Centre and picked up by the BBC and The Carbon Literacy Project.
Nov 2018 - Presentation to the University of the Third Age.
Oct 2018 - Science stall at Girls’ Night Out, Jodrell Bank Observatory.
July 2018 - Science stall at Blue Dot festival, Jodrell Bank Observatory.