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
The Whale Fall Observatory
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...
Fieldwork in the Wash, the magic of S. spinulosa!
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...
Conference: ICES Deep-sea Symposium
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...
Bangor University
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...
Downwelling and bottom currents
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...
HERMES-GIS: A tool connecting scientists and policymakers
Ben De Mol, Neus Querol, Andrew J. Davies, Angela Schäfer, Frederica Foglini, Genoveva Gonzales-Mirelis, Kathrin Kopke, Declan Dunne, Ingo Schewe, Fabio Trincardi, Miquel Canals An important aim of large, pan-European scientific projects with numerous research groups...