Nature Works - Episode 10 – Ian Hendy on Human Interactions, Environmental Variation and Climate Change, Responsible for Altering Biodiversity, Biomass and Productivity to Marine Ecosystems

Episode 10 – Ian Hendy on Human Interactions, Environmental Variation and Climate Change, Responsible for Altering Biodiversity, Biomass and Productivity to Marine Ecosystems

07/15/22 • 59 min

‘As a professional marine conservation ecologist, the main goal of my research is to understand how human interactions, environmental variation and climate change are responsible for altering biodiversity, biomass and productivity. My aim, to facilitate the rewilding of marine ecosystems in an effort to restore the natural ecology, biodiversity and energy flow. I look for unusual patterns within my data, and strive to understand diminishing aquatic ecosystems and how best to improve, restore and manage those impacts.’

Research papers Dr Ian has written/ contributed to

Biodegraders of large woody debris across a tidal gradient in an Indonesian mangrove ecosystem

Climate-driven golden tides are reshaping coastal communities in Quintana Roo, Mexico

Seagrass Restoration Handbook: UK and Ireland

Ephemeral detection of Bonamia exitiosa (Haplosporida) in adult and larval European flat oysters Ostrea edulis in the Solent, United Kingdom

Interactions of larval dynamics and substrate preference have ecological significance for benthic biodiversity and Ostrea edulis Linnaeus, 1758 in the presence of Crepidula fornicata

Mosquitofish avoid thermal stress by moving from open water to the shade of the mangrove Rhizophora mangle

Active management is required to turn the tide for depleted Ostrea edulis stocks from the effects of overfishing, disease and invasive species

Modeling projected changes of mangrove biomass in different climatic scenarios in the Sunda Banda Seascapes

Rhizophora stylosa prop roots even when damaged prevent wood-boring teredinids from toppling the trees

Seagrass-associated macrobenthic functional diversity and functional structure along an estuarine gradient

Functional uniformity underlies the common spatial structure of macrofaunal assemblages in intertidal seagrass beds

Wild Asia

Habitat creation and biodiversity maintenance in mangrove forests: teredinid bivalves as ecosystem engineers

Mangrove forests of the Wakatobi National Park

Research papers Dr Ian has written/ contributed to

Biodegraders of large woody debris across a tidal gradient in an Indonesian mangrove ecosystem

Climate-driven golden tides are reshaping coastal communities in Quintana Roo, Mexico

Seagrass Restoration Handbook: UK and Ireland

Ephemeral detection of Bonamia exitiosa (Haplosporida) in adult and larval European flat oysters Ostrea edulis in the Solent, United Kingdom

Interactions of larval dynamics and substrate preference have ecological significance for benthic biodiversity and Ostrea edulis Linnaeus, 1758 in the presence of Crepidula fornicata

Mosquitofish avoid thermal stress by moving from open water to the shade of the mangrove Rhizophora mangle

Active management is required to turn the tide for depleted Ostrea edulis stocks from the effects of overfishing, disease and invasive species

Modeling projected changes of mangrove biomass in different climatic scenarios in the Sunda Banda Seascapes

Rhizophora stylosa prop roots even when damaged prevent wood-boring teredinids from toppling the trees

Seagrass-associated macrobenthic functional diversity and functional structure along an estuarine gradient

Functional uniformity underlies the common spatial structure of macrofaunal assemblages in intertidal seagrass beds

Wild Asia

Habitat creation and biodiversity maintenance in mangrove forests: teredinid bivalves as ecosystem engineers

Mangrove forests of the Wakatobi National Park

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Episode 9- Mike Allen on Seagrass: A New Set of Lungs

Professor Mike Allen is an Associate Professor of Single Cell Genomics in the College of Life and Environmental Sciences at University of Exeter. His interests are varied and encompass both blue skies and applied research topics. Blue skies research focuses mainly on understanding the role of viruses in the ocean using genomic, proteomic, transcriptomic and metabolomic approaches. Applied research focuses on biocatalysis, bioremediation, biotransformation, bioprocessing and technology development.

Mike’s current academic research projects include co-evolution of coccolithophores and coccolithoviruses, sphingolipid biosynthesis, novel protein characterisation, lytic and latent phytoplankton viruses, phytoplankton and virus isolation. Applied projects include biofuel production and processing, bioremediation, water sanitation, high throughput liquid processing and the development of novel photobioreactor technologies for promoting microalgal growth.

Current and recent funding sources include The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Roddenberry Foundation, BBSRC and Innovate UK.

For more information on Mike, follow him @Mike_J_Allen on twitter, check out his website www.bluemicrobe.co.uk, or one of his project pages at www.phycomex.uk .

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Episode 11- Oliver Wright on leaving the corporate world for his passion, wildlife photography and ecology through the lens

Oliver became a full-time professional photographer in February 2014. Since then his work has taken him around the world (Northern Sweden, Switzerland, Ecuador, etc) and included many exciting jobs from photographing the king of Sweden in the wilderness of Abisko to talking for Canon at ‘The Photography Show’ on Canon’s main stage in 2019.

He has developed his own style of photography by using focus stacking in many genres and specialises in handheld stacking creating a unique style and set of images.

Oliver’s time is currently spent between Yorkshire and Northern Sweden where he’s a senior guide for Lights Over Lapland, giving him access to Europe’s last great wilderness for part of the year. Many of the images, videos, and blogs from this region are included on the website.