Research Projects

Ecosystem Engineers in the Southern Ocean: developing metabarcoding tools to explore invertebrate communities in sponges

Antarctic Seabed Carbon Capture Change (ASCCC): assessing sponge biodiversity and abundance in the sub-Antarctic, and the role of sponges in carbon accumulation (www.asccc.co.uk)

Benthic assemblage change after the Larsen A-B ice-shelf collapse: re-examining the sponge communities of the Weddell Sea and surrounding regions to assess the ecological impacts of the Larsen A-B ice sheet collapse on benthic communities

Abyssal Benthic Diversity in the NW Pacific Ocean: determining the abyssal benthic diversity and connectivity of the Sea of Japan, the Kuril-Kamchatka abyssal plain, Sea of Okhotsk, and the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench