Claire E. Widdicombe

Claire E. Widdicombe received the M.Sc. degree in applied marine science from Plymouth University, in 1992. She has been working at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory as a Plankton Ecologist since 1993. Her research and expertise focus on phytoplankton community structure and diversity. She leads the Western Channel Observatory’s Station L4 phytoplankton long-term time-series, which started, in 1992. She is also a member of the ICES Working Group on Phytoplankton and Microbial Ecology (WGPME) and the International Group for Marine Ecological Time Series (IGMETS).