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.
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Most recent news and papers
Maintaining turbidity and current flow in laboratory aquarium studies, a case study with Sabellaria spinulosa
Andrew J. Davies, Kim S. Last, Karl Attard, Vicki J. Hendrick Sabellaria spinulosa Many aquatic organisms rely on the suspension of particulate matter for food or for building materials, yet these conditions are difficult to replicate in laboratory mesocosms....
Perl oneliner search and replace
Just been working with my favourite language to change a space delimited file into a comma delimited file (CSV). With large files, even good file editors like JujuEdit take forever. For the first time I have actually crashed this program whilst searching and replacing...
WCMT: University of North Carolina Wilmington
2nd September 2008 - 1st October 2008 I'm currently visiting the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. I've only been to America once before, for a conference in Miami in 2005. I found the adjustment for that quite difficult. Yet, at Wilmington, it has a...
Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship ’08
21st September 2008 - 3rd November 2008 I am just starting my Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travelling Fellowship (WCMT) to the USA. My project for 2008 is entitled "Preserving the UK's deep-sea heritage". Within the confines of the fellowship, I'm travelling the...
Infra-red video of fish on Hatton Bank
During June/July 2008, I was once again privilaged to join my Dutch colleagues on the RV Pelagia, a magnificent research ship from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research. The cruise yielded a huge area of multibeam bathymetry, physical oceanography and...
Subsidy by Ascophyllum nodosum increases growth rate and survivorship of Patella vulgata
Andrew J. Davies, Mark P. Johnson, Christine A. Maggs Published in Marine Ecology-Progress Series (2008) Limpets, predominantly Patella vulgata, have been associated with damaged or receding canopies of Ascophyllum nodosum. Although the damage results from limpet...