Research group

Healthy Oceans

Shoal of herring swimming in the ocean

Ocean health links researchers and practitioners in all aspects of marine biology. This includes resilience, biodiversity, conservation, evolution, and the impacts of pollution and anthropogenic activities on marine ecosystems.

About

The Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute (SMMI) Healthy Oceans Special Interest Group promotes cutting-edge research and engaged industry expertise to address the critical environmental, ecological and conservation challenges facing our oceans. 

Our collaborative approach aims to bridge the gap between academia, policy, industry, and the public. This enables us to develop and communicate innovative solutions that contribute to the health of our oceans.

We are particularly interested in key areas such as: 

  • monitoring marine biodiversity
  • investigating the impacts of marine pollution
  • understanding anthropogenic impacts on marine life
  • exploring marine resilience  

Our interests span spatial scales from studies of individual organisms to those covering whole ecosystems and the communities that depend upon them.  

To find out more about the Healthy Oceans Special Interest Group and what we do, get in touch with group champion Christopher Goatley.

Join the SMMI Community to sign up to this group and our other special interest groups.

People, projects and publications

People

Dr Erisa Karafili

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Formal methods techniques applied to security problems
  • Attributing and investigating Cyber Attacks
  • Threat Models for IoT devices and Hybrid systems

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Esther Sumner

Associate Professor
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Dr Fangsheng Ge PhD

Lecturer in Management Science

Research interests

  • Maritime Transportation
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Mathematical/Statistical modelling

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Miss Fatima Ozcan

Research interests

  • Maritime Law
  • Marine Insurance Law
  • Cyber Insurance Law
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Professor Felix Eigenbrod

Professor of Applied Spatial Ecology

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Felix Pedrotti

SMMI-CMMI Marine and Maritime SRA

Research interests

  • Development of new techniques in recording underwater environments
  • Combining terrestrial and underwater datasets
  • Visualisation of digital datasets
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Miss Fiona Woods

Research interests

  • Restoration ecology
  • Ecosystem functions and services
  • Nutrient remediation
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Professor Fiona Woollard

Professor of Philosophy

Research interests

  • Philosophy of Pregnancy, Birth and Motherhood/ Parenthood
  • Normative Ethics.
  • Applied Ethics.

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Frank McGroarty

Chair in Computational Finance & FinTech

Research interests

  • Empirical Market Microstructure
  • Computational Finance
  • Systematic Mispricing

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Fraser Sturt

Deputy Director SMMI

Research interests

  • Maritme Archaeology
  • Geomatics
  • Evaluation methods

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Related research institutes, centres and groups

Related research institutes, centres and groups

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Enquiries

If you're interested in joining us or collaborating, get in touch with the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute.