SAHFOS Council has approved the following applications for Associate Researchers 2010. - published on 12/3/2009 12:31:34 PM


Dionysius E. Raitsos (Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Greece)

Project title: The use of CPR data to validate the remotely sensed predicted phytoplankton groups

 

Russell Wynn (NOC, Southampton)

Project title: The SeaWatch SW Project: Understanding biotic and abiotic controls on spatio-temporal distribution of migratory marine megafauna offshore southwest UK

 

Juan Carlos Molinero (Leibniz Inst. of Marine Sciences, IFM-GEOMAR, Germany)

Project title: Non-linear dynamics in the effects of temperature regimes on pelagic communities of North, Baltic and Mediterranean Seas. Examples from jellyfish and invasive species.

 

Zeren Gurkan (DTU Aqua, Denmark)

Project title: Generating prey fields for bioenergetic individual-based modelling of larval and early juvenile cod and sandeel in the North Sea.

 

Kirsteen MacKenzie (University of Southampton, NOC, Southampton)

Project title: Where do all the salmon go? Linking temporal distributions of plankton to isotope records derived from salmon scales.

 

Tony Bicknell (University of Plymouth, Plymouth)

Project title: 1) Using carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios in CPR zooplankton to infer dispersal and foraging of a seabird in the North Atlantic. 2) The effects of formalin preservation on carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios in Calanus helgolandicus.

 

Charlotte Marcinko (University of Southampton, NOC, Southampton)

Project title: Investigating and modelling seasonal variations of dinoflagellates in the North Atlantic using Continuous Plankton Recorder data.

 

Niall McGinty (Martin Ryan Institute, NUI Galway)

Project title: Regional scale perturbations of zooplankton dynamics and assemblages in Irish Shelf waters.

 

Jamie Shutler (PML, Plymouth)

Project title: Toward quantifying the carbon sink created by blooms of coccolithophores in the North Atlantic from 11 years of satellite and CPR data.

 

Samir Alliouane (Oceanographic Lab. Villefranche, France)

Project title: Impact of environmental changes on the distribution and abundance of pteropods in the North Atlantic Ocean.