Environmental Systems


Topic Leader:

Professor Nick Polunin
Professor of Marine Environmental Science
Keywords: Ecology; community ecology; food webs; stable isotopes; coral reefs; climate change impacts
Related Facilities: Stable isotope preparation lab, Ridley Building and Statistical analysis, Devonshire Building

Dr Hiro Yamazaki
Senior Lecturer in Geography (Climate Modelling)
Keywords: Climate Change, Computer Modelling, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Optics
Related Facilities: ClimatePrediction.net

Members:

Dr Nick Aldred
Research Associate
Keywords: Larval ecology and settlement; ecology of fouling communities
Related Facilities: Marine science laboratories, Ridley Building

Dr Peter Andras
Reader in Complex Systems
Keywords: Neuroscience; crab; stomatogastric ganglion (STG); voltage sensitive dye imaging; neural dynamics
Related Facilities: CrabLab – neuroimaging facility for crab neuroscience, Bedson Building

Professor Matt Bentley
Professor of Marine Biology
Keywords: Invasive species; ocean acidification; reproductive biology
Related Facilities: Research vessel, Blyth, Dove Marine Laboratory, Cullercoats and Research Aquaria, Ridley Building

Professor Tony Clare
Professor of Marine Science
Keywords: biofouling; biodiversity; nanotechnology; barnacle genomics; marine genomics

Dr Michael J Hall
Lecturer
Keywords: Bioprospecting

Dr Casey Hubert
Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow
Keywords: Marine biogeochemistry; microbial ecology; microbial diversity; biofouling
Related Facilities: Microbiology laboratories, Devonshire/Cassie/Drummond Buildings

Dr Steven Newman
Research Associate
Keywords: Biodiversity; ecosystem processes; climate change; ecology; community ecology; foob webs; predator-prey interactions; coral reefs

Professor Nick Polunin
Professor of Marine Environmental Science
Keywords: Ecology; community ecology; food webs; stable isotopes; coral reefs; climate change impacts
Related Facilities: Stable isotope preparation lab, Ridley Building and Statistical analysis, Devonshire Building

Dr Christopher Sweeting
Research Associate
Keywords: Ecology; community ecology; food webs; stable isotopes
Related Facilities: Stable isotope preparation lab, Ridley Building, Research vessel, Blyth and Statistical analysis, Devonshire Building