Environmental Research Institute

• Emerging Contaminants & Ecotoxicology
• Biogeochemistry
• Ecology and Ecosystems

• Previous background in biomedical science, now interested in environmental science

Qualifications:

• MSc Marine Resource Management, Heriot-Watt University, 2004. MSc dissertation "Intertidal seaweed species richness: a comparison of exposed and sheltered rocky shores of Caithness"
• PhD "Evaluating Biocompatibility using Human Craniofacial Bone Cells", University of Nottingham, 2001
• BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences – Anatomy, University of Edinburgh, 1996

• McDougall KE, Gibb SW, Boyd KG, Brown BE (2006) ‘Chlorophyll-like’ compounds as novel biomarkers of stress in corals.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 325:137-144

• Environmental stress in warm water corals
• Biomarkers systems

• University of Newcastle
• Haereticus Environmental Laboratory, Virginia, USA