by Andy | Sep 30, 2009 | Marine ecology
As part of a collaboration with Adrian Glover of the NHM, Kim Last of SAMS and Thomas Dahlgren of Gothenburg we have been working on developing underwater observatories to watch the colonisation and degradation of whale bones. Our camera was recently released live on...
by Andy | Aug 26, 2009 | Marine ecology
With my long standing collaborator Kim Last from SAMS and MSc student Harri Condie, we recently conducted a field trip to Sabellaria spinulosa habitats in the Wash. Sabellaria spinulosa is a polychaete worm that builds dwelling tubes out of suspended particles. As...
by Andy | May 21, 2009 | Conferences
I recently participated in the ICES Deep-sea Symposium on the island of Faial in the Azores. This 4 day meeting ran from 27-30 April and included delegates from all over the world, presenting on subjects from mining to ecology of many deep-sea habitats. The conference...
by Andy | May 15, 2009 | General ecology
As of May 2009, I have moved to a lectureship position at Bangor University. Based in Menai Bridge, Anglesey, I will be continuing the same research strands that I have followed for several years, including projects into the ecology of deep sea, subtidal and...
by Andy | Mar 9, 2009 | Marine ecology, Publications
Andrew J. Davies, Gerard Duineveld, Marc Lavaleye, Magda Bergman, J. Murray Roberts and Hans Van Haren. In 2006 and 2007, multiple deployments of current meters and optical sensors on landers and moorings were made in the first detailed in situ study of the particle...