I am a marine biologist / marine social scientist with a background in marine research and consultancy from both the academic and commercial fields. The issues surrounding inshore and offshore marine industries, such as marine renewables, aquaculture, and fisheries, are of most interest to me, specifically, how national and international policies are applied to human … Read more
I am a Project Technical Officer with a keen interest in the movement ecology of marine species. I have worked in the tagging and tracking of animals both in the UK and abroad, through satellite remote sensing and acoustic telemetry. Marine science has afforded me the opportunity to work around the world, as an IAESTE … Read more
I am a PhD student within the iCPR group, jointly funded by the MBA and the University of Plymouth. My project aims to utilise AI in the real time taxonomic identification of plankton images from a range of sources. Plankton images derived using both in-situ and ex-situ methodologies will be used in the creation of … Read more
I have worked as a marine scientist for over 55 years, mainly at the Marine Biological Association but with a period of 13 years as Professor of Marine Biology at Bangor University. My research interests include: the environmental effects of hydrothermal vents, hydrocarbon seeps and submarine ground water seeps (including their roles in geochemical cycles … Read more
I am a PhD researcher specialising in how organic nutrients sustain shelf sea productivity. My research aims to characterise dissolved organic nutrient pools and examine how these are used by coastal phytoplankton communities. To investigate my research aims, I will collect and analyse field samples using analytical chemistry techniques and microbiological experiments. These methods will … Read more
My PhD research aims to elucidate the sensory systems guiding marine invertebrate larval settlement. Specifically, the apical organ which acts as a chemo- and mechano-sensory structure and is thought to play a crucial role in larval settlement and metamorphosis. Thereby also shaping benthic communities. I am particularly interested in Cnidarians (anemones, jellyfish & coral) and … Read more
I am a marine ecotoxicologist specialising in the fate and effects of oil based, biobased and biodegradable microplastics, nanoplastics, plastic chemicals and other emerging pollutants in marine ecosystems. My current research focuses on how microplastics and other anthropogenic contaminants interact with multiple environmental stressors to affect organisms from coastal to offshore environments, and on developing … Read more
I am a NERC-funded (ARIES) PhD student at the University of Plymouth and Marine Biological Association. My project aims to disentangle the complex relationships between diatoms, their bacterial microbiota and parasitic marine fungi and is co-supervised by Professor Michael Cunliffe, Dr Katherine Helliwell and Dr Miriam Reverter. My work will combine laboratory and fieldwork components … Read more
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