Marine Ecologist
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I am a marine ecologist post-doctoral research fellow based in the School of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton. I like to use novel techniques to investigate species interactions within their environments. I specialise in marine invertebrate bioturbation, looking at how species mediate particle and fluid movement and influence marine biogeochemical cycling.
Current Research Programs:
Shelf Sea Biogeochemistry: Biogeochemistry, macronutrient and carbon cycling in the benthic layer
BlueCoast: Physical and biological dynamic coastal processes and their role in coastal recovery.
I submitted a small piece to science for an Early Career Perspectives: Research Resolutions article. Here is the text of my submitted piece with my research resolution for 2018: My research resolution for ecology would be to ensure that those who have the chance to research biodiversity are as diverse as the communities we …
My first postdoctoral position was as a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton on the UK Natural Environmental Research Council funded research program on Shelf Sea Biogeochemistry. I worked on Work Package 2: Biogeochemistry, macronutrient and carbon cycling in the benthic layer (BMCC). My work looked at how macrofaunal bioturbation and bioirrigation affects carbon and nutrient …
Continue reading “Shelf Sea Biogeochemistry Research Program Special Issue!”
During my PhD I developed a method we called ‘Cryo-Defaunation’ which involved submerging sediment cores taken from the mudflat in liquid nitrogen to kill the majority of the organisms living in the sediment. This allowed me to re-add different species biomasses to the cores to test how each species and different species combinations to investigate …
Rachel Hale 