Dr Andy Foggo

Role

My activities are split between my teaching/admin roles and my research. I remain engaged with the MRes in Marine Biology which is delivered in partnership with the Marine Biological Association and help the leader, Dr Michael Cunliffe with administration as well as delivering and assessing some components of the course. I'm also involved in teaching on the degrees forming the Marine Biology undergraduate scheme, delivering materials related to natural history and taxonomy, biostatistics, and the ecology of biodiversity. 
My main research interests are divided into two areas within aquatic ecology. One deals with spatial distributions and macroecology in marine, estuarine and freshwater habitats; we're currently entering the final phase of Deep Links, a large NERC funded project led by my colleague Dr Kerry Howell looking at biodiversity and connectivity in the deep sea. Soon we hope to have analyzable data and to begin production of outputs from the fieldwork. My other interest deals with grazer - alga interactions and in particular the role of induced defences in seaweeds as mediators of trophic interactions in a changing biosphere. I collaborate with Dr Dan Smale of the MBA, Dr Tony Knights and Prof. Jason Hall-Spencer here at Plymouth, Dr Pippa Moore at Aberystwyth and Dr Sam Rastrick from Norway in this field. I also have subsidiary interests that stem from application of numerical and statistical techniques to ecological questions, these include studies of diversity patterns in the deep sea (in collaboration with Dr Kerry Howell) and studies of non-native seaweeds in coastal habitats 

Qualifications

Associate Professor in Ecology, University of Plymouth (2015 - )

Lecturer in Ecology, University of Plymouth (1996-2015)

Drapers Company Junior Research Fellow, St Anne's College, Oxford (1995-1996)

Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Oxford (1993-1994)

Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Cambridge (1993)

DPhil, University of Oxford (1992)

Wiener Anspach Research Fellow, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (1989-1990)

BA, University of Oxford (1987)