Beth is a PhD student at Bangor University, studying deep water communities on the west coast of Hawai`i. She is interested in differences between biomass, abundance and community composition of micronekton (fish, shrimp and squid ranging between 2-20cm) nearshore and offshore, in the mesopelagic zone, between 200-1000m deep. Beth collaborated on an animation of her […]
Author Archives: Lucy Moore Fuller
Becky Hopkins
DTP: INSPIRE Profile
Andrea Sartorius
I am an ecologist, and my primary research interest is how animals survive and adapt within human-modified environments. I am currently working on my PhD project on the One Health effects of trace metal contamination from derelict lead mines in Wales. I have been collecting environmental and animal samples from abandoned mines and surrounding areas […]
Alexander Elsy
I am a tropical forest ecologist working towards a PhD at the University of Stirling, funded by the IAPETUS DTP. I am interested in forest recovery in late succession and accurately capturing the value of secondary forests in the tropics. My current fieldwork is based on a secondary forest chronosequence in the Barro Colorado Nature […]
Alex Shakspeare
Alex is a PGR at the University of Essex, focusing on sustainable aquaculture. Having spent time employed in the environmental survey sector and in a range of marine and freshwater aquaculture settings he is now working in close collaboration with local oyster farmers and existing grants, such as the NOSy project. Using novel technologies he […]
Alex Nicol-Harper
Alex is a 3rd year PhD student at the University of Southampton (on the SPITFIRE DTP), in collaboration with the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (USA). She uses population modelling (specifically Matrix Population Models and Bayesian methods) to explore life history patterns and inform conservation, with the common eider and black-browed […]
Abigail Parker
University of Cambridge Department of Zoology profile link. PhD student in vertebrate paleontology, here exploring my broader interests in environmental change and climate solutions.
Aaron Furnish
DTP: ENVISION
Sophus zu Ermgassen
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) lay out society’s ambition to deliver social and economic prosperity for all, while conserving nature on land and sea (SDGs 14 and 15 respectively). However, ‘business-as-usual’ approaches to solving social and economic development challenges may compromise our ability to achieve the SDGs that are focused on eliminating our impacts […]