Background

Area of expertise

• Marine Benthic Ecology

Qualifications

• B.Sc. Marine Biology (University of Hull)
• Ph.D Marine Ecology (Newcastle University)   

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Research

Ongoing Research Projects

Capturing our Coast (CoCoast) - www.capturingourcoast.co.uk.

HLF Funded. Citizen Science project.

Opening up Science for All (OPENER) - https://research.reading.ac.uk/openupsci/.

NERC Funded.

A national scoping project to create a vision for citizen science and public engagement with environmental research in the UK 

Natural England 

Northumbria Coast Invasive Non-Native Species Monitoring project

European Maritime Fisheries Fund / Marine Management Organisation

Plastic Plankton: The prevalence of micro-plastics in the Dove Time Series

Marine Strategy Framework Directive subtidal rock and mud indicators and monitoring

Publications

• Mieszkowska N, Sugden HE. Climate-Driven Range Shifts Within Benthic Habitats Across a Marine Biogeographic Transition Zone. In: Alex J. Dumbrell, Rebecca L. Kordas and Guy Woodward, ed. Large-Scale Ecology: Model Systems to Global Perspectives. London: Elsevier, 2016, pp.325-369.
• Mieszkowska N, Sugden H, Firth LB, Hawkins SJ. The role of sustained observations in tracking impacts of environmental change on marine biodiversity and ecosystems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2014, 372, 2025.
• Canning-Clode J, Sugden HE. Assessing macrofouling Section 1: Assessing fouling assemblages. In: Dobretsov, S; Thomason, JC; Williams, DN, ed. Biofouling Methods. Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, pp.252-270.
• Hawkins SJ, Sugden HE, Mieszkowska N, Burrows MT, Baxter JM. Managing marine species in a rapidly changing world. In: Baxter, J.M., Galbraith, C.A, ed. Species Management: Challenges and Solutions for the 21st Century. Edinburgh: Stationery Office Books, 2010, pp.91-108.
• Hawkins SJ, Sugden HE, Moschella PS, Mieszkowska N, Thompson RC, Burrows MT. The Seashore. In: Maclean, N, ed. Silent Summer: The State of the Wildlife in Britain and Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp.591-614.
• Bers AV, Diaz ER, da Gama BAP, Vieira-Silva F, Dobretsov S, Valdivia N, Thiel M, Scardino AJ, McQuaid CD, Sudgen HE, Thomason JC, Wahl M. Relevance of mytilid shell microtopographies for fouling defence - a global comparison. Biofouling 2010, 26(3), 367-377.
• Hawkins SJ, Sugden HE, Mieszkowska N, Moore PJ, Poloczanska E, Leaper R, Herbert R, Genner MJ, Moschella PS, Thompson RC, Jenkins SR, Southward AJ, Burrows MT. Consequences of climate-driven biodiversity changes for ecosystem functioning. Marine Ecology Progress Series 2009, 396, 245-259.
• Sugden H, Underwood AJ, Hawkins SJ. The aesthetic value of littoral hard substrata and an ethical framework for appreciation and conservation. In: Wahl, M, ed. Marine Hard Bottom Communities: Patterns, Scales, Dynamics, Functions, Shifts. Berlin; New York: Springer Verlag, 2009, pp.409-422.
• Sugden H, Lenz M, Molis M, Wahl M, Thomason JC. The interaction between nutrient availability and disturbance frequency on the diversity of benthic marine communities on the north-east coast of England. Journal of Animal Ecology 2008, 77(1), 24-31.
• Sugden H, Panusch R, Lenz M, Wahl M, Thomason JC. Temporal variability of disturbances: Is this important for diversity and structure of marine fouling assemblages?. Marine Ecology 2007, 28(3), 368-376.