Role
PhD candidate (part time)
Qualifications & background
- MSc Applied Marine Science - University of Plymouth, 2003 - 2004
- BSc (Hons) Ecological Science - University of Edinburgh, 1998 - 2002
Professional membership
Professional membership:
- Graduate member of the Institute of Marine Science, Engineering and Technology (IMarEST)
Research interests
Current research is focusing on the basis, development and effectiveness of marine mammal mitigation guidelines implemented during offshore industrial activities, principally geophysical surveys.
UoP Research group membership
Geomatics
Other research
Publications
Journal articles;
- Compton, R., Goodwin, L., Handy, R. & Abbott, V. In press. A critical examination of worldwide guidelines for minimising the disturbance to marine mammals during seismic surveys. Marine Policy.
- Compton, R., Banks, A., Goodwin, L. & Hooker, S.K. 2007. Pilot cetacean survey of the subarctic North Atlantic utilising a cruise-ship platform. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK, 87 (1):321-325
Conference presentations*;
- Compton, R., Banks, A. & Goodwin, L. (2006) Pilot Trans-Atlantic cruise-ship based cetacean survey. Poster presentation; 20th European Cetacean Society conference, Gdynia, Poland.
- Kaschner, K., MacLeod, C., Mandleberg, L. & Compton, R. (2005) Working with what we know – presence-only / ecological niche models in marine mammal science. 16th biennial conference of the Society for Marine Mammalogy, GIS workshop presentation.
- Compton, R., Dalebout, D., Wimmer, T, Øien, N., Goodwin, L. & Whitehead, H. (2005) Predicting key habitat and potential distribution of northern bottlenose whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus) in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Oral presentation; 19th European Cetacean Society conference, La Rochelle, France.
*Names in red indicate speaker where applicable.
Links
RPS Energy - www.rpsgroup.com/energy
BioMapper (ENFA species habitat and distribution analysis) - www2.unil.ch/biomapper/
