Andrew Davies is a marine biologist at the University of Rhode Island in the USA. He works on reefs, using a mixture of natural history observation, experimentation and novel technologies to untangle the ecology of these enigmatic habitats.

This website contains many of Andy’s outputs and contains more information on projects, papers and various other items that you may find interesting. The video to the left shows some interesting elements of research, and if you wish to see a subtitled version, please watch it on youtube.

You can request PDFs of papers via email, and they will usually be with you shortly. But check your spam boxes if you don’t get it as sometimes it ends up in there. If you’re interested check out below for various links to online profiles.

My research group is called marecotec, short for marine ecology technology, you can check out our website here.

Most recent news and papers

Effect of SPM on juvenile king scallops

Effects of elevated levels of suspended particulate matter and burial on juvenile king scallops Pecten maximus C.L. Szostek, A.J. Davies and H. Hinz The effects of exposure to elevated levels of suspended particulate matter (SPM) and burial on juvenile king scallops...

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Adding error bars and calculating standard error in Excel

One again, one of my students had a query best answered by using my screen capture software, here's the video. Essentially, they wished to know how to add error bars using Standard Error in Excel, previous attempts had failed. The answer is to calculate your own...

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Keeping pace with climate change

Keeping pace with climate change: what can we learn from the spread of Lessepsian migrants? J.G. Hiddink, F. Ben Rais Lasram, J. Cantrill, A. J. Davies Species need to move to keep pace with changing climates, but we do not know if species can move at the required...

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Global habitat suitability modelling for octocorals

Global habitat suitability of cold-water octocorals Chris Yesson, Michelle L. Taylor, Derek P. Tittensor, Andrew J. Davies, John Guinotte, Amy Baco, Julie Black, Jason M. Hall-Spencer and Alex D. Rogers Three-quarters of Octocorallia species are found in deep waters....

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International Deep Sea Coral Symposium 2012

Well, Amsterdam is certainly a unique city and was the recent host of the International Deep-sea Coral Symposium 2012. This was the 5th conference and the 3rd that I've been to since I started working on cold-water corals. Whilst not as distant as Florida (3rd ISDSC)...

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Classifying rasters in ArcMap 8-10

One of the many questions that students ask me is how do I standardise the scale bar for a raster in ArcGIS x.x. Well, it is actually very simple and can be done just by using the Symbology tab within the properties of a layer. Check out this short video that I made...

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