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I am a marine ecologist and bioacoustician, with a range of research interests primarily focussed on marine vertebrates. As an associate professor at the University of Plymouth, I lead the BSc Marine Biology and Oceanography degree, and supervising a range of PhD (currently 3 students, 3 completed), MRes and BSc students. I also head up the Marine Vertebrate Research Group at the University of Plymouth. Currently I am working on a range of projects from noise monitoring (with CEFAS), to automated whale song detection from an autonomous ship (Promare/IBM funded project), to oceanographic drivers of fish and manta distributions in the British Indian Ocean Territories (GWF & Bertarelli Foundation funded project). My main research interests are focussed in a few key areas:
(i) understanding the oceanographic drivers of the distribution and behaviour of marine predators and prey. This has so far included understanding the role of internal-waves on fish schooling behaviour, and foraging seabirds; the role of tidal oceanography in driving cetacean distribution and behaviour; how fronts influence the foraging behaviour of seabirds and cetaceans; and the role of deep sea oceanography on offshore cetacean populations. Recent work has included understanding oceanographic drivers of fish and manta rays in the British Indian Ocean Territories (BIOT).
(ii) spatial conservation of cetaceans through visual-acoustic surveys, and habitat modelling. My research into harbour porpoises in Scotland was pivotal in the selection of the UK Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) for harbour porpoises. I work closely with NGOs such as ORCA, WDC and CWT investigating the use of citizen science data to monitor cetacean populations, and started up a harbour porpoise monitoring project for the SW to determine abundance, habitat use and risk of bycatch.
(iii) investigating the impacts of human activity on marine ecosystems, in particular, the impact of marine renewable energy devices and marine noise on marine vertebrate distributions & behaviour. My most recent research has particularly focussed on shipping noise impacts on marine mammals behaviour and sound exposure levels.
(iv) acoustic detection of cetaceans using autonomous platforms: currently working on a project to automatically detect whales and dolphin vocalisations from an autonomous ship repeating the Mayflower journey from Plymouth UK to Plymouth USA. Project funded by Promare & IBM, acoustic kit supplied by RS-Aqua.
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JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (2024)
Joanna L. Harris,Clare B. Embling, Genevieve Alexander,David Curnick,Ronan Roche,Niv Froman,Marleen Stuhr,Elaine S. Fileman, Simon Hilbourne, Rebecca Carter,Annie Murray,Jessica Savage,
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION (2023): e02636-e02636
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