For more information please email Dr Louise Firth.
Marine Eco-engineering Research Unit team
Meet our team and collaborators
People
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Dr Louise Firth
Lecturer in Marine Ecology
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Professor Richard Thompson OBE FRS
Director of the Marine Institute
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Dr Mick Hanley
Associate Professor in Plant-Animal Interactions
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Dr Antony Knights
Associate Professor in Marine Ecology
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Dr Paul Lunt
Associate Professor in Environmental Science
Collaborators
UK
- Mike Burrows, Scottish Association of Marine Sciences
- Martin Coombes, Oxford University
- Steve Hawkins, University of Southampton and Marine Biological Association of the UK
- Pippa Moore, Aberystwyth University
- Larissa Naylor, University of Glasgow
- Martin Skov, Bangor University
International
- Laura Airoldi, University of Bologna, Italy
- Melanie Bishop, Macquarie University, Australia
- Tjeerd Bouma, Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
- Fabio Bulleri, University of Pisa, Italy
- Su-Yin Chee, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
- Ross Coleman, University of Sydney, Australia
- Tasman Crowe, University College Dublin, Ireland
- Katherine Dafforn, Macquarie University, Australia
- Andy Davies, University of Rhode Island, USA
- Emma Johnston, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Kenny Leung, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Shimrit Perkol-Finkel, Econcrete, Israel
- Peter Steinberg, Sydney Institute of Marine Sciences, Australia
- Elisabeth Strain, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Peter Todd, National University of Singapore, Singapore
PhD students
Current
Ms Kathryn O’Shaughnessy, Funding University of Plymouth, “Green engineering of coastal infrastructure: a design for life”. Louise Firth (DoS) with Richard Thompson, Mick Hanley, Paul Lunt (University of Plymouth) and Steve Hawkins (Marine Biological Association). 2016-2019.
Completed
- Dr Rebecca Morris (2014-2016), School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney. "Retrofitting biodiversity: Ecological engineering for management of urbanised systems". Ross Coleman (DoS), Gee Chapman and Louise Firth (co-supervisors)
- Dr Ally Evans (2013-2015), Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University. "Artificial coastal defence structures as surrogate habitats for natural rocky shores". Pippa Moore (DoS), Louise Firth, Steve Hawkins, Liz Morris and Harry Goudge (co-supervisors).