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Ocean Research Network - Members

Holocene coral fossil from Okinawa in Japan.

Dr Dani Abulhawa - School of Performance and Cultural Industries
Expertise: Marine ecology (particularly in Wales), seaweed farming, seaweed and seagrass restoration, marine environmental monitoring.

Dr George Aivaliotis - School of Mathematics
Expertise: Financial and actuarial mathematics; stochastic control; risk and dependence modelling; data analytics; temporal pattern mining.

Dr Ciara Baines - School of Biology
Expertise: Marine Ecology; Conservation; Ecotoxicology; Climate change; Coral Reef Ecology; Wildlife Cancer.

Professor Natasha Barlow - visiting professor, School of Earth and Environment
Expertise: Sea-level change; Quaternary; climate change; coasts; offshore environments; environmental change; palaeoenvironmental reconstruction; offshore wind.

Professor Maria Beger - School of Biology
Expertise: Coral reef fish ecology; Marine conservation science; Spatial planning; Marxan; Climate change impacts on marine systems; Connectivity in spatial decision science; Genetics in conservation planning.

Professor Ian Brooks - School of Earth and Environment
Expertise: Boundary layer processes, turbulence, air-sea interaction, polar boundary layers.

Charlotte Clay - School of Biology
Expertise: Palaeoecology; Coral reef community ecology.

Dr Fiona Chong - School of Biology
Expertise: High latitude reefs, community and population ecology.

Dr Charles Dannreuther - School of Politics and International Studies

Professor James Ford - School of Earth and Environment
Expertise: Climate change vulnerability, risk & adaptation; Arctic; Indigenous peoples; community based research; adaptation tracking.

Professor Yun Yun Gong - School of Food Science and Nutrition
Expertise: Dietary exposure; biomarker; human health risk assessment; food safety; aflatoxin/mycotoxins; molecular epidemiology; early life exposure; , child malnutrition, double burden of malnutrition.

Dr Simon Goodman - School of Biology
Expertise: Evolutionary biology; population genetics; Genomics; Disease ecology; Conservation biology; Marine mammal ecology and conservation; Emerging infectious diseases; Parasites and pathogens.

Dr Stephen Griffiths - School of Mathematics
Expertise: Applied mathematics; fluid dynamics; atmospheric and oceanic flows; magnetohydrodynamics; instability theory; linear and nonlinear waves; ocean tides; numerical modelling.

Professor Joanne Garde-Hansen - School of Media and Communication
Expertise: Popular media cultures; media technology; women, ageing and media; media histories and heritage; media and memory; media cultures and the environment; protest memory and media.

Professor Alan Haywood - School of Earth and Environment
Expertise: Past climates; past environments; climate modelling; earth system modelling.

Professor David Hodgson - School of Earth and Environment
Expertise: Sedimentology; stratigraphy; diagenesis; geomorphology.

Dr Will Homoky - School of Earth and Environment
Expertise: Ocean biogeochemistry; carbon and metal cycles; sediment and porewater diagenesis; micronutrient trace elements and isotopes; benthic fluxes; hydrothermal vents; radio-isotope tracers; ICP-MS.

Professor Michael Krom - School of Earth and Environment
Expertise: Biogeochemical processes; marine environment; sediment.

Dr Alastair Lough - School of Geography
Expertise: Ocean primary productivity, deep sea mining, trace metals.

Dr. Ishfaq Hussain Malik - School of Geography
Expertise: Climate change; Ethnography; Indigenous communities and knowledge; Disaster studies.

Ankitha Manohar - School of Earth and Environment
Expertise: Marine Conservation, Sustainable Aquaculture, Marine Policy, Social Science, Spatial Mapping, Ecosystem.

Dr Sarah Martin - School of Biology
Expertise: Fisherie management; social-ecological systems; small-scale fisheries; nutrition; rural livelihoods; stock assessment; statistics.

Dr Amy McGuire - School of Earth and Environment
Expertise: Quaternary; palynology; palaeoecology; tephrochronology; sea-level change.

Dr Paula Novo - School of Earth and Environment
Expertise: Ecological economics; human-nature relations; environmental values and perceptions; environmental governance; arts-based methods.

Professor Caroline Peacock - School of Earth and Environment
Expertise: Biogeochemistry; geochemistry; Earth system science; environmental science; mineralogy; synchrotron spectroscopy and microscopy.

Professor Simon Poulton - School of Earth and Environment
Expertise: Geochemistry; biogeochemistry; isotope geochemistry; Earth history.

Andi Pratiwi - School of Geography
Expertise: Gender; Climate Change; Coastal Communities; Intersectionality; Climate Justice; Creative Methodologies.

Morven Rae-Seaman - School of Biology
Expertise: Ecological resilience; adaptive capacity; coral reefs.

Dr Danielle Robinson - School of Earth and Environment
Expertise: Human-environment interactions, small-scale fisheries, local ecological knowledge, shark conservation, participatory research and co-creation.

Professor Yu Shi - School of Design
Expertise: Smart textile; smart composite material; Functional filament; Failure assessment; Structural health monitoring; Printed electronics; Energy harvesting; Processing of composite; Computational modelling.

Dr Josie South - School of Biology
Expertise: Invasive species, sustainable fisheries management, trophic interactions.

Gangadhar Tambre - School of Geography
Expertise: Microplastics; deep sea; marine sediments; benthic communities.

Professor Martin Tillotson - School of Civil Engineering
Expertise: Water management; virtual water; water & wastewater treatment; water & wastewater sludge processing; resource recovery; water industry regulation; water industry innovation.

Dr David Williams - School of Earth and Environment
Expertise: Conservation, food systems, land-sea interactions, aquaculture.

Dr Clare Woulds - School of Geography
Expertise: Biogeochemistry; marine sediments; ecosystem function; isotope tracer experiments; organic geochemistry.