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Professor Matt Bentley
 

Telephone:
(0191) 222 5350 (work)
e-mail:
m.g.bentley@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
  • Invertebrate marine biology
  • Invertebrate gamete and fertilisation biology, egg and sperm maturation
  • Environmental effects on invertebrate (marine) reproductive processes, esp. timing of spawning
  • Control of invertebrate reproduction by hormones and pheromones

Professor Nicholas Polunin
 

Telephone:
+44 (0)191 222 6675 (work)
e-mail:
n.polunin@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
  • Fishing effects, especially on fragile ecosystems in the sea such as coral reefs
  • Marine reserves and areas protected from fishing in the sea, management of marine ecosystems
  • General marine environmental issues including relative impacts of human population growth vs climate change in tropics
  • Marine biodiversity and conservation, ecosystem structure and function, coastal management

Dr Guenther Uher
 

Telephone:
+44 (0)191 222 6228 (work)
e-mail:
guenther.uher@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
  • Marine emissions of climatically active trace gases, including greenhouse gases and sulphur gases
  • Impact of natural water photochemistry on trace gas and plant nutrient cycling
  • Marine dissolved organic matter and its roles in nutrient cycling, global carbon cycling
  • Optical properties of dissolved organic matter

Professor Robert Upstill-Goddard
 

Telephone:
+44 (0)191 222 5065 (work)
e-mail:
rob.goddard@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
  • The role of the marine system in the global cycles of climatically active trace gases, especially nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4)
  • Understanding the environmental controls of gas exchange at the sea-air interface
  • The role of the sea-surface microbes (Bacterioneuston) in air-sea gas exchange
  • Reactivity of organic matter in freshwater and marine environments and implications for Global Biogeochemistry