Research interests
Conservation of Biodiversity, Ecology, Ecosystem Services, Environment, Environmental impact assessment, statements, Environmental impacts, Environmental issues, , Pollution, Wetlands, Wildlife conservation
Research projects include
- Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation on the ASSETS project (Attaining Sustainable Services from Ecosystems Through trade-off Scenarios: espa-assets.org), which is examining the interactions between tropical forest ecosystems and the well-being of the rural poor in Africa and Latin America
- conservation management in Africa (with the Northern Rangelands Trust, Marwell Wildlife, WWF and The Nature Conservancy) and Madagascar (with Conservation International);
- sustainable food systems in Latin America;
- evaluating human impacts on sea bird ecology (funded by English Nature and the Beaulieu Estate);
- resource management and risk assessment and modelling for shorebirds in industrial estuaries (with the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, funded by ABPmer);
- marine pollutants and avian ecology (funded by Oilspill Response Limited);
- recovery from marine pollution and novel bioindicators
- decision making for coastal management and sediment budgets
- habitat management and behavioural ecology of sand lizards (with the ARCTrust and Marwell Wildlife , funded by SITA Trust)
- Monitoring of UK Biodiversity Action Plan species (DEFRA funded)
- risk analysis for new technologies, including GM crops and biofuels
- urban ecosystem services to optimise the benefits of green space (with Southampton City Council)
I have been either PI or co-Investigator in research grants worth over £3.5million, including the joint Research Councils/DfID ESPA Programme, DEFRA, English Nature (now Natural England), SITA Trust, ABPmer, Marwell Wildlife, the People’s Trust for Endangered Species, OilSpill Response, the British Ecological Society and Beaulieu Estate; and supervised twelve PhD students to completion with six others currently active.
I advise local government on Biodiversity Action Planning and ecosystem services and has worked with industry in the same field. He is External Examiner University of Portsmouth (Countryside and Wildlife Management Programmes); I am a regular reviewer for Journal of Environmental Management, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Landscape and Urban Planning.
PhD Completions -Completed
July 2014 PhD Natalie Foster (MH/Robert Nicholls) Towards understanding and decision making for the sustainable use of intertidal mudflats and salt marshes
March 2014 PhD Ben Davis (MH/Guy Poppy) Properties of invasive Rhododendron species
March 2014 PhD Elizabeth Hopley (MH/Robert Nicholls) Long term geomorphological change in Southampton Water- a sediment budget approach
Oct 2014 PhD Gillian Wright (MH/PK/Robert Nicholls) Impact of tide gates on diadromous fish migration in the UK.
April 2013 PhD Martin Wilkie (MH/PEO). Mixed herbivore grazing on a lowland heath system: quantifying the collective impacts for conservation management.
Ongoing
PhD Jamie Oaten (IW, MH). Metal bioaccumulation and metallothionein response in introduced commercial marine invertebrates and novel algae species. 2014-2016 (f/t).
PhD Jessica Savage (MH/PEO) Managing Coastal Resources in South East Asia for Tourism, Development and Environmental Protection 2013-2015 (f/t).
PhD Miss Harriet Smith (MH/KS/Felix Eigenbrod) Energy resources and adaptation to climate change in rural Africa 2014-2016 (f/t).
MPhil/PhD Helen Davies (MH/KS/Marije Schaafsma) Payment for ecosystem services from green infrastructure to address urban climate change adaptation 2015-18 (f/t)
MPhil/PhD Emma Stephenson (MH/PEO) Spatial analysis of the impact of visitors on the conservation value of national heritage sites 2015-20 (p/t)
MPhil/PhD Lina Zapata Restrepo (IW, MH).Endocrine-related reproductive effects in Ostrea edulis as a model test organism for water and sediment contamination on aquatic ecosystems. 2015-2018 (f/t).
PhD research
Patterns In Time and Space on Solent Salt Marshes.
Supervisors Steve Hawkins and Alan Gray
Centre for Environmental Sciences, University of Southampton , May 2001
Research group
Environmental Change and Sustainability (ECaS)
Affiliate research group
Centre for Environmental Sciences
Research project(s)
ASSETS: Attaining sustainable services from ecosystems
The impact of tide gates on fish migration
WISER: Which Ecosystem Service Models best capture the needs of the rural poor?
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