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- Senior Lecturer in Marine Biology, Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC), Lancaster University, UK (Aug 2019 onwards)
- Lecturer in Marine Biology, LEC, Lancaster University, UK (Mar 2017 - July 2019)
- Assistant Professor, Center for Macroecology, Evolution & Climate (CMEC), Copenhagen, Denmark (Nov 2013 - Feb 2017) & VILLUM Fonden Young Investigator (Aug 2015 - Feb 2017)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Australia (Jan 2010 - Oct 2013)
- Ph.D in Ecology, Bournemouth University, UK (2007 - 2010)
- University Research Development Officer, Bournemouth University, UK (2006 - 2007)
- Assistant Manager, Cat Ba Langur Conservation Project, Viet Nam (2006)
- M.Sc in Primate Conservation, Oxford Brookes University, UK (2004 - 2005)
- B.Sc (Hons) in Zoology, University of Southampton, UK (2001 - 2004)
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Editor: Global Ecology & Biogeography
- Biogeographic traits Editor: Coral Traits Database
- Working group member for UN Convention on Migratory Species: Conservation implications of sociality and animal culture
- Working group member: SCORE-REEFS
Background
I completed my B.Sc (Hons) in Zoology at the University of Southampton in 2004. In the summer of my second year, I volunteered for two months with the Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project and discovered a love for ecological research. This experience inspired me to undertake an M.Sc in Primate Conservation at Oxford Brookes University. My M.Sc, completed in 2005, involved extensive fieldwork on gibbons in the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia, which resulted in a book chapter on the vocal diversity of Kloss's gibbons.
After gaining my M.Sc, I took up a post as Assistant Manager of the Cat Ba Langur Conservation Project in Viet Nam. The aim of the project was to use the Cat Ba langur (at the time, only around 60 individuals left in the world!) to implement community-based conservation action and build capacity within Cat Ba National Park. We also took the chance to record behavioural observations of the monkeys, with an aim towards capture and relocation of isolated individuals to bolster the few remaining populations.
After a year of working in research funding and strategy for the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008 at Bournemouth University, I found an opportunity to further my journey into academia, I began my Ph.D in Ecology at Bournemouth University in 2007 under the supervision of Prof. Adrian Newton within the group for Conservation Ecology and Environmental Change. My thesis explored the impacts of environmental change on meso-scale biodiversity patterns and peaked my interest in the applicability of ecological 'rules' across taxa, habitats, biomes, and through time. I used long-term data on woodland plants and rocky shore invertebrates to explore biodiversity change over multi-decadal time scales. Specifically, I explored concepts such as no-analogue communities, biotic homogenization, stability of metacommunity structure, and climate-induced geographical range shifts. During this time, I realized that to fully understand changes in biodiversity patterns over space and time, it is critical to understand the underlying ecological processes. Additional supervisors: Roger Herbert (BU), Mike Morecroft (Natural England), James Bullock (CEH), Clive Bealey.
In January 2011, I moved to tropical Australia to take up a position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies based at James Cook University. Specifically, my research was within the "Coral Reef Biodiversity" Programme and I was a member of the Ecological Modelling Research Group, both of which are led by Sean Connolly. See research highlights and current projects for further information.
In November 2013, I started my position as Assistant Professor at the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, based in Copenhagen, Denmark. I continued to seek to understand the underlying processes that drive coral reef biogeographic patterns, developing my research towards linking community ecology with larger scale pattern and process. In March 2017, I started a permanent position as Lecturer in Marine Biology at Lancaster Environment Centre, and became a Senior Lecturer in 2019. It's great here, although I seem to have much less time to fill this in ;) |
Obligatory "I'm an ecologist" fieldwork poses (from left to right):
Recording Kloss's gibbon vocalizations in the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia; Resurveys of Good's woodland patches in Dorset, UK; Long-term monitoring of corals off Orpheus Island on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia; Searching for singing gibbons in Indonesia; Observing Cat Ba Langur behaviour on Cat Ba Island, Viet Nam; SeaSearch observations of benthic marine life around Swanage Pier, UK
(credits: Mel Bridge, Ian Craigie, Kathryn Ross)
Recording Kloss's gibbon vocalizations in the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia; Resurveys of Good's woodland patches in Dorset, UK; Long-term monitoring of corals off Orpheus Island on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia; Searching for singing gibbons in Indonesia; Observing Cat Ba Langur behaviour on Cat Ba Island, Viet Nam; SeaSearch observations of benthic marine life around Swanage Pier, UK
(credits: Mel Bridge, Ian Craigie, Kathryn Ross)