About This Website

Trying to look casual on the summit of Tête Fourche in 2024. 

I’m Jack Paton, thanks for visiting my website.

I’ve had this website in one guise or another since I was about nine years old. With some time on my hands after finishing university, I’ve redesigned the website with the following goals in mind.

1. A landing page for my academic work. My home page gives a timeline of my research experience, starting with my work at York in astrophysics and continuing through as I start to pursue working in oceanography research.

If you’d like to discuss any elements of my work, feel free to contact me.

2. A blog for when I have something I think worth sharing. In an internet polluted with AI posts and saturated with banner ads, I’ve increasingly been turning to small, personal websites to find answers to find answers to niche questions.

As such, when I haven’t found a satisfactory write-up or answer to a question online already, I’ve written my own. These are on a wide variety of subjects but generally my solution to problems I’ve faced in travelling and being in the outdoors.

Due to their nature these posts are sporadic at best. You can explore my blog posts here. I hope you may find something useful!

3. A place to display my photos and an exercise in web design. For a large portion of its history this website has functioned has a photography portfolio. I still enjoy using it as a platform for my photos, either within blog posts or in my small gallery on the home page which I will try to keep up to date.

This website is also entirely built from scratch by me using Divi and WordPress. As such, there may be some issues or things that don’t quite work, but this keeps the site completely independent and free of branding and advertising.

Feel free to contact me if you want to discuss anything on this website further.