Environmental Research Institute

• Director

• Renewable Energy and the Environment
• Biotechnology & Bioresources
• Emerging Contaminants & Ecotoxicology
• Biogeochemistry
• Climate Change
• Ecology and Ecosystems

• Nov 2002 - present
  Director, Environmental Research Institute, UHI North Highland College
• Nov 1999 - Oct 2002
  Research and Development Manager, Environmental Research Institute, North Highland College
• May 1997 - Oct. 1999
  Senior Scientific Officer: Marine & Atmospheric Biogeochemistry - Pigment Biogeochemistry Group Leader; Centre for Coastal & Marine Sciences (CCMS), Plymouth, U.K.
• Dec. 1995 - May 1997
  Scientific Officer: Marine Ecology - Biogeochemistry: Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth
• Nov. 1992 - Nov. 1995
  Research Fellow (UK NERC): School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich & Plymouth Marine Laboratory
• Oct. 1989 - Sep. 1992
  Research Student (CASE): School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, & Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, U.K.

Qualifications:

• 2008
  UHI Professor of Environmental Sciences
• 1994
  PhD Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
• 1989
  BSc (Hons) Physical Sciences, Robert Gordon`s Institute of Technology
  - Awarded `Glaxochem Prize for Most Distinguished Student Completing Degree course`
• 1988
  BSc Physical Sciences, Robert Gordon`s Institute of Technology

Professional membership:

• Fellow, Higher Education Academy (2006)
• Chartered Scientist (CSci, via Royal Society of Chemistry), 2005
• Chartered Chemist (CChem, via Royal Society of Chemistry), 1994
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), 2007
• Member of Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC), 1994
• Visiting Professor, East China University of Science, Shanghai, China, 2007-

• Shuguang Lu, Stuart W. Gibb
  Copper removal from wastewater using spent-grain as biosorbent
  Bioresource Technology 99 (2008) 1509-1517
• Johnson MT, Sanders R, Avgoustidi V, Lucas MI, Brown L, Hansell D, Moore CM, Gibb SW, Liss PS, Jickells TD (2007) Ammonium accumulation during a silicate limited diatom bloom indicates the potential for ammonia emission events. Marine Chemistry 106: 63-75.
  doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2006.09.006
• Carolina Nebot, Stuart W. Gibb and Kenneth G. Boyd
  Quantification of human pharmaceuticals in water samples by high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry
  Analytica Chimica Acta, Volume 598, pp 87-94, 2007 doi:10.1016/j.aca.2007.07.029
• Shuguang Lu, Stuart W. Gibb and Emma Cochrane
  Effective removal of zinc ions from aqueous solutions using crab carapace biosorbent
  Journal of Hazardous Materials, 149 (1), 208-217, 2007
  doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2006.01.054
• E. L. Cochrane, S. Lu, S. W. Gibb and I. Villaescusa
  A comparison of low-cost biosorbents and commercial sorbents for the removal of copper from aqueous media
  Journal of Hazardous Materials, 137 (1), 198-206, 2006 doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2006.01.054
• McDougall KE, Gibb SW, Boyd KG, Brown BE
  'Chlorophyll-like' compounds as novel biomarkers of stress in corals
  Marine Ecology Progress Series, 35, 137-144, 2006
• Upland climate change impacts - towards improved site-scle assessments for land use managers?
  John Coll, Stuart W. Gibb, John Harrison (2006). In Global Change in Mountain Regions. Ed M.F. Price. Sapiens Publishing, Dumfries. Pp 273-275
• Naqvi SWA, Bange HW, Gibb SW, Goyet C, Hatton AD, Upstill-Goddard RC (2005) Biogeochemical ocean-atmosphere transfers in the Arabian Sea. Progress in Oceanography 65: 116-144.
• Modelling future climate change in the Scottish Highlands - an approach integrating local climatic variables and climate model outputs
  John Coll, Stuart W. Gibb and John Harrison (2005). In The Mountains of Europe: Conservation and Management, People and Nature. D.B.A. Thomson, M.F. Price and C.A. Galbraith. HMSO, Edinburgh. Pp103-109
• Woolf, D.K., J. Coll, S. Gibb and P.G. Challenor. 2004. Sensitivity of ferry services to the Western Isles of Scotland to changes in wave climate. In Proceedings of OMAE’04, 23rd International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, ASME.
• Gibb SW, Hatton AD (2004) The occurrence and distribution of trimethylamine-N-oxide in Antarctic coastal waters. Marine Chemistry 91: 65-75.
• I.B. Rae and S.W. Gibb
  Removal of metals from aqueous solutions using natural chitinous materials
  Water Science & Technology Vol 47 No 10 pp 189-196, 2003
• Steinke M, Malin G, Gibb SW, Burkill PH (2002) Vertical and temporal variability of DMSP lyase activity in a coccolithophorid bloom in the northern North Sea. Deep Sea Research II 49: 3001-3016.
• Brown BE, Downs CA, Dunne RP, Gibb SW
  Exploring the basis of thermotolerance in the reef coral Goniastrea aspera
  Marine Ecology Progress Series, 242, 119-129, 2002
• Brown BE, Downs CA, Dunne RP, Gibb SW
  Preliminary evidence for tissue retraction as a factor in photoprotection of corals incapable of xanthophyll cycling
  J. Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 277 (2): 129-144, 2002
• Joint I, and 27 authors including Gibb SW (2001) Pelagic production at the Celtic Sea shelf break. Deep Sea Research II 48: 3049-3081.
• Gibb SW, Barlow RG, Cummings DG, Mantoura RFC, Irigoien X (2001) Pigment chemotaxonomy of the northeastern Atlantic. Deep Sea Research II 48: 795-823.
• Carole A. Llewellyn and Stuart W. Gibb
  Intra-class variability in the carbon, pigment and biomineral content of prymnesiophytes and diatoms
  Marine Ecology Progress Series, 193, 33-44, 2000
• Brown, BE, Dunne, RP, Warner, ME, Ambarsari, I, Fitt, WK, Gibb, SW, Cummings, DG. Damage and recovery of Photosystem II during a manipulative field experiment on solar bleaching in the coral Goniastrea aspera. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 195, 117-124, 2000.
• Anning T, MacIntyre HL, Pratt SM, Sammes PJ, Gibb S, Geider RJ. Photoacclimation in the marine diatom Skeletonema costatum. Limnology and Oceanography 45 (8), 1807-1817, 2000
• Gibb, S.W., R.G. Barlow, D.G. Cummings, N.W. Rees, C.C. Trees, P. Holligan, D. Suggett. Surface phytoplankton pigment distributions in the Atlantic Ocean: An assessment of basin scale variability between 50°N and 50°S. Progress in Oceanography, 45 (3-4), 339-368, 2000 
• HANDBOOK OF WATER ANALYSIS, CHAPTER 11 - AMMONIA,
  STUART W. GIBB, LEO NOLLET (ED.), ISBN 0-8247-8433-2 MARCEL DEKKER, NEW YORK, 2000
• J.M.Baker, C.E.Reeves, S.A.Penkett, P.D.Nightingale, S.W. Gibb and A. D. Hatton
  Biological Production of Methyl Bromide in the Coastal Waters of the North Sea and Open Ocean of the Northeast Atlantic
  Marine Chemistry, 64(4), 267-285, 1999
• Colomban de Vargas, Richard Norris, Louisette Zaninetti, Stuart W. Gibb Jan Pawlowski. Molecular Evidence of Cryptic Speciation in Planktonic Foraminifers and their Relation to oceanic Provinces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 96 (6), 2864-2868, 1999
• Brown BE, Ambarsari I, Warner ME, Fitt WK, Dunne RP, Gibb SW and Cummings DG. Diurnal changes in photochemical efficiency and xanthophyll concentrations in shallow water reef corals: evidence for photoinhibition and photoprotection. Coral Reefs, 18,99-105, 1999
• Angela D. Hatton, and Stuart W. Gibb
  A novel technique for the determination of Trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) in natural waters, and biological media
  Analytical Chemistry, 71, 4886-4891, 1999
• S.W. Gibb, P.S. Liss and R.F C. Mantoura.
  Ocean - atmosphere exchange and atmospheric speciation of methylamines and ammonia in the NW Arabian Sea
  Global Biogeochemical Cycles, volume 13 (1), 161-178, 1999
• S.W. Gibb, R.F.C. Mantoura, P.S. Liss and R.G. Barlow.
  Distributions and Biogeochemistries of Methylamines and Ammonium in the Arabian Sea.
  Deep Sea Research II, 40 (3-4), 593-616, 1999

• "Analytical Services for Sustainable Development"
  Programme: ERDF Priority 1: Increasing Business Competitiveness, Creating Employment and Increasing Income. Measure 1.3: Support development of innovation and R&D, including industry-academic links
  With Rosemary Thompson (NHC)
  Total: EUR 257k; EU Contribution EUR 171k ( Jan 2003- Dec 2005)
• "A Sustainable Strategy for Water Treatment"
  Programme: ERDF Priority 1: Increasing Business Competitiveness, Creating Employment and Increasing Income
  Measure 1.3: Support development of innovation and R&D, including industry-academic links
  With Rosemary Thompson (NHC)
  Total EUR 251k, EU Contribution: EUR 110k (Jan 2003 - Dec 2005)
• - "Towards a vulnerability assessment for the UK coastline"
  NERC / Tyndall Centre for Climate Change
  With Southampton Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, University of East Anglia
  Project total approx £ 200k (2000-2004)
• - "Virus driven biogeochemistry - implications of lysis-driven nutrient regeneration on microbial growth"
  Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
  With Plymouth Marine Laboratory and University of Swansea
  Project total £200k (2004-2007)
• - "UHI Addressing Research Capacity (ARC) programme"
  Total programme value approx £11,600k
  With ARC partners (including SAMS, Ness, Agronomy , EO etc):
  ERI-NHC component approx £2100k: Jan 2006 to Jul 2009
• - "Addressing Marine Renewable Energy Capacity in Scotland"
  Strategic Research Development Grant (SRDG) - Scottish Funding Council (SFC)
  Total grant - with Heriot Watt University approx £990k
  ERI-NHC component approx £440k
• "UHI SuperGen Plus" PhD programme
  HIE and ERDF
  Total programme approx. £1470K (with SAMS and EO)
  ERI-NHC component approx. £661k (2008-2011)

Current:

• Carolina Nebot - Assessing the environmental presence of human pharmaceuticals
  Director of Studies with K. Boyd, and K. Black (SAMS) (2004 - submission spring 2008 )
• Emma Cochrane - Novel solutions for the remediation of contaminated water
  UHI Millennium Insititute PhD
  Originally Second supervisor now Director of Studies with Dr S Lu (East China University of Science and Technology) and Prof. I Villaescusa (Universitat de Girona) (2003- submission planned early 2008 )
• Julie Graham - The Environmental Fate of Veterinary Medicines
  UHI Millennium Insititute PhD
  Second supervisor with K. Boyd (DoS) and J Mchenery (Schering Plough Animal Health) (2003 - submission planned 2008)
  
• Gwenna Corbel - Boundary layer wind fields over the Highlands and islands of Scotland : linking the North Atlantic Oscillation to the regional impacts of climate change
  UHI Millennium Insititute PhD
  Second supervisor with David Woolf (DoS) and J Allen (National Oceanographic Centre) (2003 - submission planned spring 2008)
• Sabine Freitag - Development of Biomarker Protocols to assess the impact of environmental change and genetic diversity on organism and cellular responses
  UHI Millennium Insititute PhD
  Second supervisor with Simon Thain and Kenny Boyd (2006- )
• Danishta Dumur - Using phytoplankton and bacterioplankton to assess the ecological status of freshwaters in Scotland
  UHI Millennium Insititute PhD
  Director of Studies with Martina Burtscher, Angela Squier, Kenny Boyd and Alan Youngson (Fisheries Research Services) (2007-)

Completed:

• Conor McKee - 2001 University of East Anglia. Biogeochemical cycles of ammonia and dimethylsulphide in the marine environment.
  Second supervisor with Prof. Peter Liss (DoS, UEA), Dr Phil Nightingale (Plymouth Marine Laboratory).
• Susa Kadner - 2005 University of East Anglia. Acrylic Acid: The forgotten part of the DMS story
  Second supervisor with Prof Peter Liss (DoS, UEA), Dr.Gill Malin (UEA)
• Martin Johnson - 2005 University of East Anglia. Air-Sea Exchange of Ammonia
  University of East Anglia GANE PhD studentship
  Second supervisor with Prof. Peter Liss (DoS, UEA), Dr.Tim Jickells (UEA)
• John Coll - 2007 UHI Millennium Institute (via Open University). Assessing the regional impacts of climate change in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland
  UHI Millennium Institute
  Director of Studies with Dr John Harrison (University of Dundee)
• Emma Suddick - 2007 UHI Millennium Institute (via University of Aberdeen). Environmental Impacts on freshwater nitrogen biogeochemistry
  ERI-ESF Director of Studies with Dr Axel Miller (SAMS) and (Dr Guenther Uher) University of Newcastle
• Ian Rae - Use of natural products in the purification of potable waters and treatment of wastewater
  UHI Millennium Institute PhD Studentship,
  Director of Studies with Dr S. Lu, East China University of Science and Technology

• Emerging environmental contaminants
• Phytoplankton chemotaxonomy
• Biogeochemical cycling
• Analytical environmental chemistry
• Novel solutions for water remediation and decontamination

• Commercial site

• Acted as an external examiner for:
  - University of Newcastle (2003), PhD
  - University of Girona, Spain (2005), PhD
  - University of Plymouth (2006), PhD
  - University of East Anglia, UK (2007), PhD
• Acted as journal reviewer for:
  - Separation Science and Technology
  - Marine Environmental Research
  - Analytica Chimica Acta
  - Trends in Analytical Chemistry
  - Journal of Plankton Research
  - Environmental and Experimental Botany
  - Water Research
  - J. Experimental Marine Biology & Ecology
  - Marine Ecology Progress Series
  - Deep Sea Research
  - J. Hazardous Materials
  - Environmental Chemistry Letters.
• Acted as proposal reviewer for:
  - Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) (various years)
  - Research Council of Norway
  - Hungarian National Office for Research and Technology
  - Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
  - Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
  - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• Currently provide strategic and scientific leadership for a team of over 30 research and support staff + research students
• Committee membership:
  UHI
  - Member UHI Research Committee (2000 - present)
  - Member UHI Sabbatical Committee (2006 - present)
  - Member UHI Research Degrees Sub-Committee (2005 - present)
  - Member of UHI Foundation (2007 - present)
  
  External
  - UNESCO Scotland Committee, 2005-7 Member / adviser
  - Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA); 2005-present. Member: North Regional Board
  - Moray Firth Partnership, 2004-2007 Member Advisory Group
  - NASA Oceanography Peer Review Committee Member, 2002