Cohort 2017
Charlotte Van Driessche: Fine-scale habitat suitability for humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in Zavora Bay, Mozambique.
Samantha Stott: Assessing the Spatial Distribution of Hawksbill nests in the South of Mahé, Seychelles: The potential of unmanned aerial vehicles
Natassia Bacco Mannina: An investigation into natural mortality of seabirds at a protected colony in Ireland
Uthesh Umapathy: Reproductive cycle of the common limpet (Patella vulgata) and rough limpet (Patella ulyssiponensis) in southern Portugal
Ma. Angeline Lacson: A multimetric approach to evaluate offshore mussel aquaculture effects on receiving benthic communities: Are natural factors masking the induced impacts?
Katelin Morrison: Recovery of a deep-sea Arctic sponge ground following physical disturbance
Ali Murat Elagoz: Identification of transcripts encoding enzymes putatively involved in the synthesis of anti-inflammatory compounds in the Diatom Cylindrotheca Closterium
Ilja Voorsmit: Short Term Attraction of Fish to Newly Restored Coral Reef Areas around Cerf Island, Seychelles.
Aisling Brenan: Microplastics in the North Sea: enhancing our ecological understanding through the development of rigorous sampling methods
Lucinda Green: Assessment of elasmobranch bycatch in the Pacific Sierra gillnet fishery on the South East Gulf of California, Mexico
Nils Kreuter: The ability to visually discriminate quantities in juvenile Grey Bamboo Sharks (Chiloscyllium Griseum)
Paule-Emilie Ruy: An investigation of three intertidal snail species: their spatial distribution, parasite prevalence, and the impact of those parasites.
Jenevieve Hara: Quantification of Microplastic Ingestion by the Decapod Crustacean Nephrops norvegicus from Irish Waters
Ignacio Polo Vaquero: Pelagic Chondrichthyans Historical Assessment in Madeira, Compared to Portuguese and Global Bycatch: Estimation of Population Trends
Nelle Meyers: The Cost of a Meal: Foraging Ecology of Female Australian Fur Seals
Ines Fournon Berodia: Molecular characterisation of the opsin4 gene in the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus
Christina Egger: A Molecular Phylogeny of Caecidae micro snails and the evolution of a tubular shell
Louise Sabadel: Assessing the Effect of Sunlight Exposure and Depth on Coral Growth in a Restoration Programme
Justin Defever: The effect of biotic and abiotic factors on the hatching success of the hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) on Mahé Island, Seychelles
Marina Ortega Calvo: Harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) Spatio-temporal distribution in Skjálfandi Bay (Iceland) using whale watching platforms (2009-2018)
Thomas Cansse: Factors influencing capture success and prey profitability in Australasian gannets (Morus serrator)
Anisa Rilla Lubis: Detection of Sulfur- and Selenium- Containing Antioxidant Compounds Coming From Bigeye Tuna Intestine Using HPLC-ICP-MS
Luzia Solothurnmann: Fine-scale Foraging Ecology of a Vulnerable Seabird: the Desertas Petrel (Pterodroma deserta)
Herath Mudiyanselage Udari Ayeshya: Phenotypic Plasticity of the brown seaweed, Dictyota dichotoma in response to climate change
Alejandra Elisa Hernández Magaña: Prokaryotic diversity and activity in contrasting productivity regimes in late Summer in the Kergueln Region (Southern Ocean).
Dominic Duncan Mensah: Differential growth and aspects of the health of Chelon labrosus (Risso, 1827) fed commercial trout and tilapia feeds in open flow and recirculatory aquaculture system.
Morgane Amelot: Abundance and trends of killer whales (Orcinus orca) interacting with fisheries in the southern Indian Ocean
Francine Beaujot: Investigating the biotic and abiotic properties of Bathymodiolus azoricus mussel habitats at the Rainbow hydrothermal vent field (mid-Atlantic ridge)
Morgane Pommier: Exploring Habitat use of bottlenose dolphins in the Shannon Estuary Special Area of Conservation (SAC) using combined visual and acoustic monitoring
Gabriela Cristina Mitsuhashi: Effect of okadaic acid (DSP) and its influence on host microbe interactions in a gnotobiotic artemia system.
Robyn Joanne Murdoch: Two-spotted goby, Gobiusculus flavescens, behavioural and physiological responses to changes in temperature and food availability.
Alexandra Hanusch: Spying on Elasmobranchs: Diversity and abundance using BRUVS in Zavora Bay, Mozambique.
Rita Meireles de Castro: Mitigating Small-Scale Fisheries Bycatch Assessment of existing approaches for marine mammal and sea turtle conservation.
Li Yuanshuo: Reconstructing the evolutionary history of the Palmophyllales: a group of multi-cellular deep-sea green algae.
Justina Givens: Marine Bacterial Responses under UV Filter & Solar Radiation Exposure.
Ane Laborda: Assessing productivity regime shifts in Flemish Cap main stocks
Raquel Ruiz-Díaz: Hindcasting for forecasting. Evaluating the impact of Global Change in Fisheries.
Mar Santos: Effect of heatwaves and acidification on Mediterranean reefs: the response of benthic invertebrates associated to the coralline algae Ellisolandia elongata.
María Dolores Castro Cadenas: Assessing the present health and future prospects of the marine social-ecological system in Moorea, French Polynesia.
João Fernandes: Spying the Seafloor!
Hayley Campbell: Spatial, size and sex-related variation in the size-related variation in the diet of boarfish (Capros aper).
Sara Newton: Effects of Salt Induced Flocculation on Biogeochemical Transformation of Nutrients in Estuarine Environments.
Zara Guifarro: Temperature Induced Changes In Fatty Acid Dynamics Of Tropical And Temperate Harpacticoid Copepods.
Loup Paitard: Age and growth of Shortfin Mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) in the Indian Ocean.
Camille Kowalski: Evaluation of the impact of artisanal fisheries on sea turtles on São Tomé Island, Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe
Virginie Sonnet: Morphological diversity of marine phytoplankton: Identification of traits, morphological succession and periodicities from imagery
María Teresa Rodríguez: The effect of food quality and ocean acidification on the fatty acid composition and gene expression of the harpacticoid copepod Platychelipus littoralis (Brady, 1880)
Lea Happel: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of the Microbiota of the Antarctic Sponge Mycale (Oxymycale) acerata
Carmen Bâlon: Mercury kinetics in Arctic seals during lactation and fasting: consequences for transfer to offspring
Sara Knobelspiess: Toxic and biochemical responses of the estuarine bivalve species Scrobicularia plana to microplastic exposure
Ratna Eka Putri: Characterization of The Bacterial Community Associated with Corrosion in Ship Ballast Tanks using 16s rRNA Metabarcoding
Patricia Martin Cabrera: Trophic Ecology of shallow-water black corals from the southwestern coast of Madagascar.
Jan Phillipp Geissel: Blood Distribution and Energy Metabolism of the Brain of Polar cod (Boreogadus saida) Under Ocean Acidification.
Marie Brigeot: Assessing the carrying capacity of divers on Monad Shoal.
Leonardo Bertini: The spatio-temporal extent of anthropogenically-induced changes and recoveries of ecosystem drivers in the mesopelagic North Atlantic
Sara De Clerck: Effects of noise on the acoustic behaviour of killer whales, Orcinus orca, in Iceland.
Sofia Albrecht: Habitat use of minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) in Skjálfandi Bay.
Luigi Colin: Investigating the Population Structure of Hard Corals Across the Chagos Archipelago, Indian Ocean
Nikola Piesinger: Determining the impact of pile-driving activity on the spatio-temporal distribution of Harbour Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the Belgian Part of the North Sea
Nikola Pichler: Occurrence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in a "pristine" estuary of the Amazon Coast (Oyapock Estuary, Brazil).
Gizem Poffyn: Mapping fishing grounds and predatory fish hotspots of Zavora bay, Mozambique - Towards the establishment of a Locally Managed Marine Area (LMMA)
Diana Santos: Linking a community's perception of the state of their coral reefs to its present condition.
Karolina Czechowska: Is anyone down there? Testing methodologies to map and study black coral habitats off Canary Islands, Spain.
Md. Royhanur Islam: What are the boundary conditions to implement nature-inspired coastal defence solutions? A Coastbusters blueprint comparison between Europe and Bay of Bengal.
Catherine Mitchell: Determining how fishing impacts change with depth on coral reefs
Andrea Fariñas: Response of cetaceans to changes in their prey availability and environmental conditions
Thomas Riedinger: Development of methods using behaviour to investigate welfare during capture in purse seines
Loïc Van Audenhaege: High-Resolution Vertical Habitat Mapping of a Deep-Sea Cliff offshore Western Greenland
Elena Basilio Puig: Adult male sperm whale depredation and individual movements interacting with fisheries in the Southern Indian Ocean
Claudia Meneses: Global patterns of Seaweed Species diversity
Rochelle Yong: Tolerance of Microalgae species Prymnesium parvum to Dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) and Glycerol
Nora von Xylander: Short-term study comparing the Coral Growth and Health between Ocean-Based and Land-Based raised Acropora Corals
Margot Minju Arnould-Pétré: Construction of a population model of a sea urchin endemic to the Kerguelen Plateau, Abatus cordatus, to study the responses to environmental changes.