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Profile
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Scientific interests
Deep-water ecology
- Diversity and community structure of macrofauna in soft sediments
- Influence of physical, chemical and geological factors on macrofaunal diversity
- Mega-infaunal behaviour in deep-water ecosystems
- Megafaunal and macrofaunal diversity and community structure on seamounts and banks
Recent role: European Census of Marine Life Project Coordinator
At the Scottish Marine Institute I am a member of the...
Career history
2008-present
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Lecturer in Deep Sea Ecosystems, SAMS
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| 2005-present |
EuroCoML Project Coordinator, SAMS
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| 2004-2005 |
Benthic Taxonomist, SEAS Ltd., UK |
2003
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Research Fellow, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
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2002-2003
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Post Doctoral Research Associate, SAMS
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2001
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Benthic Taxonomist, SEAS Ltd, UK
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1995
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Research Assistant, National Oceanography Centre Southamption (then Southampton Oceanography Centre)
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1993-1994
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Research Assistant, George Deacon Division in IOSDL (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory), UK
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Publications
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Book
Baker M, Ebbe B, Hoyer J, Menot L, Narayanaswamy BE, Ramirez-Llodra E &
Steffensen M (Author/Editor list arranged in alphabetical order) (2007). Deeper than Light 85pp. Bergen Museum
(available in English, French, German, Spanish and Norwegian)
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Research
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Funder: NERC
To assess the impact of three selected seamounts on the geometry of the composition of the benthic community and its relation to the geometries of export flux and benthic processes, including biogeochemical fluxes and biogenic sediment transport.
Funder: NERC
- Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man's Impact on European Seas (HERMIONE)
This project is designed to make a major advance in our knowledge of the functioning of deep-sea ecosystems and their contribution to the production of goods and services. SAMS will contribute to the seamount workpackage.
Funder: EU FP7
Previous major programmes
EuroCOML is a regional implementation committee for the international Census of Marine Life: A 10 year programme looking at what is known, unknown and unknowable in the world’s oceans.
Funders: TOTAL Foundation; Alfred Sloan Foundation; Stavros Niarchos Foundation and Argyll & the Islands Enterprise.
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External
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CoML Award for "Building partnership and collaboration within the CoML
community."
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Member of the 11th International Deep-sea symposium organising
committee
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Reviewer for Census of Marine Life grants submitted to the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation
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Lead scientist on the SEA 7 research cruise (2005) to the seamounts and
banks
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Deep-Sea Life Exhibition in conjunction with the Deeper than Light
Exhibition. Now being shown at the Smithonian
National Museum of Natural History.
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Teaching
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Current Phd students
- Kiara Burke (University of Aberdeen & SAMS): The Fate of Organic Matter in Marine Sediments - the role of macrofauna (2005 - 2010)
- Evangelia Gontikaki (University of Aberdeen, SAMS, HCMR): The fate of phytodetritus pulses in subarctic and Mediterranean sediments (2006 - 2010)
- Jaime Davies (UoP, SAMS, NOCS, BGS & JNCC): Identification of areas of nature conservation importance in deep waters of the UK continental shelf, to contribute towards spatial planning and the development of an ecologically coherent network of MPAs in the North-East Atlantic (2007 - 2010)
- Module leader: Marine and Estuarine Systems (year 2)
- Lecturer for Deep-Sea Ecosystems module (year 4)
- Lecturer for Polar Seas module (year 4)
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