Profile
Graduated with 1st class honours BSc Marine Biology and Oceanography and with Distinction MRes Marine Biology at the University of Plymouth. My research interests lie within ecophysiology, specifically how factors associated with climate change influence morphology and physiology of marine invertebrates, across multiple life history stages and over multiple generations.
My undergraduate dissertation was titled “Scope for transgenerational acclimation to elevated temperatures in the brackish water amphipod Gammarus chevreuxi (Sexton, 1913)” and involved measuring levels of oxygen consumption through closed chamber respirometry as a proxy for metabolic rate. Masters thesis was titled “Both maternal and embryonic exposure to mild hypoxia influence embryonic development in the intertidal gastropod Littorina littorea (Linnaeus, 1758)”. Using high power microscopy and image analysis software I measured aspects of embryo morphology in developing embryos, and activity levels of hatched veliger larvae, to determine to what extent maternal and embryonic exposure to mild hypoxia (70% air saturation) influenced these traits. Thesis is currently in preparation for publication.