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Dr Abigail McQuatters-Gollop
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Role:Science-Policy Researcher Background, qualifications and professional membership:Education: PhD: Phytoplankton as indicators for eutrophication in Europe's regional seas. University of Plymouth (2004 - 2008) MA (Hons): Marine Affairs and Policy and GIS. University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) (2000 - 2001) BA (Hons): Marine Affairs and Policy. University of Miami (1996 - 2000)
Membership: Challenger Society for Marine Science Council member, communications officer (2012 - present) SCOR 137 Working Group on Global Coastal Phytoplankton Time-series - Full member (2010 - present) HBDSEG Healthy and Biologically Diverse Seas Evidence Group (2009 - present) Defra Marine Ecosystem Health Working Group (2010 - present) Defra/HBDSEG Marine Strategy Framework Directive Indicators and Targets Drafting Group Subgroup lead on developing pelagic indicators and targets (2011 - present) University of Plymouth Associate lecturer (2012- present), Visiting lecturer (2007 - 2011)
Awards and Achievements: Challenger Society Honorary Fellowship For achievement and promise in marine biology (2012) Royal Society Science-Policy Pairing Scheme Paired with UK DECC for one year mentorship (2011-2012) Rho Rho Rho Marine Science Honours Society Member (1997-1999), Elected vice president (1999-2000) University of Miami RSMAS Merit Fellowship Full tuition scholarship $45,000 (2000-2001) National Merit Scholar Tuition scholarship $16,000 (1996 - 2000) University of Miami Merit Scholar Half tuition Scholarship $60,000 (1996-2000) University of Miami Dean's List Eligibility: Grade Point Average > 3.50 (1996, 1997, 2000) University of Miami Provost's Honour Roll Eligibility: Grade Point Average > 3.75 (1998) University of Miami Honors Students' Association Member (1996 -2000) Phi Kappa Phi Honour Society America's most selective honours society, Eligibility: Grade Point Average in top 7.5% of my class (1999-2000) Research Interests:Abigail is leading development of pelagic targets and indicators for the UK'sand OSPAR's implementations of the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive. Abigail's primary research interest is on developing policy-related research and science-policy integration activities at SAHFOS, particularly within the UK and Europe. Current research focuses on the applicability of phytoplankton
as indicators for environmental change in European seas and on the
synergistic effects of climate change and anthropogenic disturbance
on marine ecosystems.
Publications:SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS: Rombouts, I., Beaugrand, G., Fizzala, X., Gaill, F., Greenstreet, S.P.R., Lamare, S., Le Loc'h, F., McQuatters-Gollop, A., Mialet, B., Niquil, N., Percelay, J., Renaud, F., Rossberg, A.G. and Féral, J.P., (2013). Food web indicators under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive: from complexity to simplicity? Ecological Indicators, 29: 246-254. Beaugrand, G., McQuatters-Gollop, A., Edwards, M. and Goberville, E., (2012). Long-term responses of North Atlantic calcifying plankton to climate change. Nature Climate Change, doi:10.1038/nclimate1753. McQuatters-Gollop, A. (2012). Challenges for implementing the Marine Strategy Framework Directive in a climate of macroecological change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 370: 5636-5655. McQuatters-Gollop, A., Reid, P.C., Edwards, M., Burkill, P., Castellani, C., Batten, S., Gieskes, W., Beare, D., Bidigare, R., Head, E., Johnson, R., Kahru, M., Koslow, J. and Pena, M. (2011). Is there a decline in marine phytoplankton? Nature 472:E6-E7. McQuatters-Gollop, A. and Vermaat, J.E. (2011). Covariance among North Sea ecosystem state indicators during the past 50 years - contrasts between coastal and open waters. Journal of Sea Research 65:294-292. Raitsos, D.E., Lavender, S.J., Maravelias, C.D., Haralabous, J., McQuatters-Gollop, A., Edwards, M., Reid, P.C. (2011) Macroscale factors affecting diatom abundance: a synergistic use of Continuous Plankton Recorder and satellite remote sensing data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 32:2081-2094 McQuatters-Gollop, A., Burkill, P., Beaugrand, G., Edwards, M., Gattuso, J.-P. and Johns, D.G., (2010). Atlas of Calcifying Plankton: Results from the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey. SAHFOS, Plymouth, UK, 20 pp. Tirado, M.C., Clarke, R., Jaykus, L.A., McQuatters-Gollop, A. and Frank, J.M., (2010). Climate change and food safety: A review. Food Research International, 43: 1745-1765. Langmead, O., McQuatters-Gollop, A., Mee, L.D., (2010). The socioeconomics behind ecosystem collapse: the case of the Black Sea. Science for Environment Policy: DG Environment News Alert Service, Special Issue 22: 1. McQuatters-Gollop, A., Gilbert, A.J., Mee, L.D., Vermaat, J.E., Artioli, Y., Humborg, C. and Wulff, F., (2009). How well do ecosystem indicators communicate the effects of anthropogenic eutrophication? Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 82:583-596. McQuatters-Gollop, A., (2009). Regional policies needed to tackle eutrophication in Europe's seas. Science for Environment Policy: DG Environment News Alert Service, 154: 1. Langmead, O., A. McQuatters-Gollop, L.D. Mee, J. Friedrich, A.J. Gilbert, M.-T. Gomoiu, E.L. Jackson, S. Knudsen, G. Minicheva, V. Todorova (2009). Recovery or decline of the Northwestern Black Sea: A societal choice revealed by socio-ecological modelling. Ecological Modelling 220: 2927-2939. Henson, S. A., D. Raitsos, J. P. Dunne, and A. McQuatters-Gollop (2009), Decadal variability in biogeochemical models: Comparison with a 50-year ocean colour dataset, Geophysical Research Letters, 36:L21601. McQuatters-Gollop, A., L.D. Mee, D.E. Raitsos, G. Shapiro (2008). Non-linearities, regime shifts and recovery: The recent influence of climate on Black Sea chlorophyll. Journal of Marine Systems 74:649-658. Artioli, Y., J. Friedrich, A.J. Gilbert, A. McQuatters-Gollop, L.D. Mee, J.E. Vermaat, F. Wulff, C. Humborg, L. Palmeri, F. Pollehne (2008). Nutrient budgets for European seas: a measure of the effectiveness of nutrient reduction policies. Marine Pollution Bulletin 56:1609-1617. Vermaat, J.E., A. McQuatters-Gollop, M. Eleveld and A. Gilbert (2008). Past, present and future nutrient loads of the North Sea: causes and consequences. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 80:53-59. McQuatters-Gollop, A., D.E. Raitsos, M. Edwards, and M.J. Attrill. (2007). Spatial patterns of diatom and dinoflagellate seasonal cycles in the North - East Atlantic Ocean. Marine Ecology Progress Series 339: 301-306. McQuatters-Gollop, A., D.E. Raitsos, M. Edwards, Y. Pradhan, L.D. Mee, S.J. Lavender, and M.J. Attrill (2007). A long-term chlorophyll dataset reveals regime shift in North Sea phytoplankton biomass unconnected to increasing nutrient levels. Limnology and Oceanography 52: 635-648.
POLICY REPORTS AND DOCUMENTS: McQuatters-Gollop, A. and Johns, D., 2012. Scotland's Biodiversity Indicator - Plankton. Scottish Natural Heritage, 8 pp. McQuatters-Gollop, A., Johns, D.G., Dowland, P., Edwards, M. (2011). Digitization, analysis and interpretation of plankton data for pre-1914 ICES sampling in the North Sea and adjacent waters: final report March 2011. SAHFOS, Plymouth, 20 pp. Gowen, R.J., McQuatters-Gollop, A., Tett, P., Best, M., Bresnan, E., Castellani, C., Cook, K., Forster, R., Scherer, C. and Mckinney, A., 2011. The Development of UK Pelagic (Plankton) Indicators and Targets for the MSFD. Advice to Defra. Belfast, UK, 41 pp. Moffat, C, Aish, A., Hawkridge, J.M., Miles, H., Mitchell, P. I., McQuatters-Gollop, A., Frost, M., Greenstreet, S., Pinn, E., Proudfoot, R., Sanderson, W. G., & Tasker, M. L. (2011). Advice on United Kingdom biodiversity indicators and targets for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive. Healthy and Biologically Diverse Seas Evidence Group Report to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. 207pp. Celine Byrne (with Abigail McQuatters-Gollop), (2011). A new addition to the online offering: ICES Historical Plankton Dataset, ICES Inside Out vol 5. ICES, Copenhagen, pp. 1. Johns, D.G. and McQuatters-Gollop, A., (2011). Natural Heritage Trends - Plankton in the seas around Scotland - 2010 update. Scottish Natural Heritage, 5 pp. McQuatters-Gollop, A., Edwards, M., Reid, P.C. and Johns, D., (2010). A marine assessment and monitoring framework for application in UKMMAS and OSPAR, for phytoplankton and zooplankton. Report to the Joint Nature Conservation Committee from the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science. SAHFOS, Plymouth, 44 p. Edwards, M., Beaugrand, G., Johns, D.G., Licandro, P., McQuatters-Gollop, A. and Wootton, M., (2010). Ecological Status Report: results from the CPR survey 2009. SAHFOS Technical Report, 7: 1-8. Reid, P.C., Edwards, M., McQuatters-Gollop, A., Beaugrand, G., Bresnan, E., Brierley, A., Davidson, K., Delany, J., Eloire, D., Forster, R., Fox, C., Frederiksen, M., Gowen, R., Halliday, N., Hardman-Mountford, N., Hátún, H., Hay, S., Hartman, S., Helaouët, P., Johns, D., Kirby, R., Lampitt, R., Larkin, K., Licandro, P., Lindley, A., Lucas, C., McCollin, T., Miller, P., Milligan, S., Mills, D., Pitois, S., Prior, A., Rees, A., Smyth, T., Smythe-Wright, D., Stevens, D. and Widdicombe, C., (2010). Biological indicators of state: the plankton, Charting Progress 2: An Integrated Assessment of the State of UK Seas. Defra, London, UK, 69 pp. Edwards, M., Heath, M. and McQuatters-Gollop, A., (2010). Plankton, MCCIP Annual Report Card 2010-11. MCCIP Science Review, pp. 10. McQuatters-Gollop, A., Johns, D. and Edwards, M., (2009). The Continuous Plankton Recorder. Exploring the Marine Environment. Bulletin of the British Ecological Society 2009, 40: 10-11. Edwards, M., Beaugrand, G., John, A.W.G., Johns, D.G., Licandro, P., McQuatters-Gollop, A. and Reid, P.C., (2009). Ecological Status Report: results from the CPR survey 2007/2008. SAHFOS Technical Report, 6: 1-12. Reid, P.C., Bathmann, U., Batten, S.D., Brainard, R.E., Burkill, P.H., Carlotti, F., Chiba, S., Conversi, A., Dickson, R.R., Dooley, H., Edwards, M., Flinkman, J., Fukuchi, M., Goes, J., Goni, G., Greene, C.H., Hare, J.A., Hays, G.C., Head, E., Hood, R.R., Hosie, G., Hunt, B.P.V., John, A.W.G., Jonas, T.D., Jossi, J.W., Karlson, B., Kuh Kim, Kirby, R.R., Kitchener, J., Kobayashi, D., Lakkis, S., Llope, M., Lopes, R.M., MacDiarmid, A., McQuatters-Gollop, A., Malone, T., Matondkar, P., Muxagata, E., Pershing, A., Richardson, A.J., Robertson, D., Robinson, K., Sartimbul, A., Stenseth, N.C., Sugisaki, H., Stevens, D., Berghe, E.V., Verheye, H., Vezzulli, L. and Ward, P., 2009. A Global Continuous Plankton Recorder Programme, OceanObs09, Venice, Italy, pp. 12. Reid, PC, Cook, EJ, Edwards, M, McQuatters-Gollop, A, Minchin, D and McCollin, T (2009) Marine non-native species in Marine Climate Change Ecosystem Linkages Report Card 2009. (Eds. Baxter JM, Buckley PJ and Frost MT), Online science reviews, www.mccip.org.uk/elr/non-natives, 28pp. McQuatters-Gollop, A. (2008). Harmful Algal Blooms and fishery product safety. FAO. 10 pp. McQuatters-Gollop, A., Johns, D.G., Halliday, N. and Edwards, M., (2008). Fish Larvae Project: Progress Report Contract MF1101. SAHFOS/Defra/Cefas, Plymouth, 28 pp. McQuatters-Gollop, A., (2008). Climate exacerbates eutrophication in the North Sea. Marbef Newsletter, 8: 17-18. McQuatters-Gollop, A., (2007). The synergistic effects of climate and eutrophication in the North Sea. GLOBEC International Newsletter, 13: 10-11. McQuatters-Gollop, A., Raitsos, D.E., Edwards, M., Pradhan, Y., Mee, L.D., Lavender, S.J. and Attrill, M.J., (2007). Climate exacerbates eutrophication in the North Sea. IMBER Update, 7: 3:4. McQuatters-Gollop A., and L.D. Mee. (2007). Eutrophication in the Black Sea, p 20. World Resources Institute. Reid, P.C., A. McQuatters-Gollop, D. Johns and M. Edwards (2007). Macroscale patterns in phytoplankton and Harmful Algal Blooms in UK waters based on Continuous Plankton Recorder data. UK Environment Agency contract report. Edwards, M., Reid, P.C., McQuatters-Gollop, A., Helaouet, P., Kirby, R. and Frederiksen, M., (2008). Indicator review for pelagic ecosystems (phytoplankton and zooplankton): Report to the Healthy and Biologically Diverse Sea Evidence Group (HBDSEG). Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, Plymouth, UK, 22 pp. Langmead, O., A. McQuatters-Gollop and L.D. Mee (Eds.). (2007). European Lifestyles and Marine Ecosystems: Exploring challenges for managing Europe's seas. 43pp. University of Plymouth Marine Institute, Plymouth, UK.
Roles on external bodies / national / international responsibilities:Challenger Society for Marine Science Council member, communications officer SCOR 137 Working Group on Global Coastal Phytoplankton Time-series - Full member HBDSEG - Healthy and Biologically Diverse Seas Evidence Group Defra Marine Ecosystem Health Working Group SAHFOS PI - FP7 KnowSeas (Knowledge based sustainable management of Europe's Seas) SAHFOS PI - INTERREG MARINEXUS Links:Connect with me on Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/abigailmcquattersgollop Google Scholar profile: http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=oDjPCVIAAAAJ
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