Dr Angela Hatton

 Telephone: 01631 559227
 E-mail:Angela.hatton@sams.ac.uk

 Job Title: Senior Lecturer in Marine Biogeochemistry

 Scientific interests

 I'm a microbial ecologist, focussed on marine biogeochemistry.

My main interest at present are:

• Anaerobic microsites and methanogenesis
  
• Role of dimethylsulphoxide in the sulphur cycle
• Algal production of dimethylsulphoxide and its physiological function
• Algal-bacterial interactions

Other current interests include:

• Photochemistry
• Feeding behaviour and chemical cues
• Trimethylamine-N-oxide measurements 

Current funded projects

• Unravelling the methane paradox
  (NERC standard grant NE/D011213/1) A.D. Hatton, D. Green, M. Hart

• The Role of Algal-Bacterial Interactions in Determining Dimethylsulphide Fluxes to the Atmosphere
  (NERC SOLAS Thematic funding NE/C51725X/1) D. Green, A.D Hatton, M. Hart, With Damu Shenoy.
  

• The role of bacterial associates in the production of dimethylsulphoxide

    (NERC OPEN-CASE studentship) A.D. Hatton, M. Hart, D. Green & C. Bavington (Glycomar)

• Arctic biogeochemistry and DMS (OCEANS 2025)

Current Students

Samuel Wilson: Biogenic trace gas production in the pelagic environment. 2003-2007

Educational and career history
2006 - present     Senior Lecturer                        SAMS
2003 - 2006         Lecturer                                   SAMS
1997 - 2003         NERC Research Fellow             SAMS
1995-1997           Senior Research Associate       University of East Anglia (ENV)
1991 - 1995         PhD studentship                      University of East Anglia (ENV)

Publications

Hatton A.D. & Wilson, S.T. (2007) Particulate dimethylsulphoxide and dimethylsulphoniopropionate in phytoplankton cultures and Scottish coastal waters. Aquatic sciences (in Press).

Naqvi, A.S.W., Bange, H. W., Gibb, S.W., Goyet, C., Hatton A.D. and Upstill-Goddard R.C. (2005) Biogeochemical Ocean-Atmosphere Transfers.  Progress in Oceanography: 65 (2-4): 116-144.

Hatton, A.D., Darroch, L. and Malin, G. (2004) The role of dimethylsulphoxide in the marine biogeochemical cycle of dimethylsulphide. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An annual review,  42 : 29-56.

Gibb, S.W.G. and Hatton, A.D. (2004) The occurrence and distribution of trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) in Coastal waters. Marine Chemistry, 91 : 65-75.

Hughes, D.J, Hatton, A.D. & Nickell, L.A. (2004) Do biogenic sulphur compounds in phytodetritus act as cues for deposit-feeder activity? Field experiments and observations on the echiuran worm Maxmuelleria lankesteri. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 313, 175-189.

Hatton, A. D.  (2002) Influence of photochemistry on the marine biogeochemical cycle of dimethylsulphide in the northern North Sea.  Deep-Sea Research II, 49 : 3039-3052.

Hatton, A. D.  (2002) DMSP removal and DMS production in sedimenting particulate matter in the northern North Sea. Deep-Sea Research II, 49 : 3053-3065.

Hatton, A. D. and Gibb, S.W.G. (1999) Development of a technique for quantifying trimethylamine-N-oxide in aqueous solution.  Analytical Chemistry, 71 : 4886 - 4890.

Hatton, A. D.; Malin, G. and Liss, P. S.  (1999) Distribution of biogenic sulphur compounds during and just after the Southwest monsoon in the Arabian Sea. Deep-Sea Research II, 46 : 617-632.

Baker, J.M.; Reeves, C.E.; Nightingale, P.D.; Penkett, S.A.; Gibb, S.W. and Hatton, A.D. (1999) Biological production of methylbromide in the coastal waters of the North Sea and open ocean of the Northeast Atlantic, Marine Chemistry, 64 : 267-285.

 Simo, R.; Hatton, A. D.; Malin, G. and Liss, P. S.  (1998) Particulate dimethylsulphoxide in seawater: Production by microplankton.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 167: 291-296.

 Hatton, A. D.; Turner, S. M.; Malin, G. and Liss, P. S. (1998) Dimethylsulphoxide and other biogenic sulphur compounds in the Galapagos plume.  Deep-Sea Research II, 45 : 1043-1053.

 Liss, P.S.; Hatton, A. D.; Malin, G. and Turner, S. M.  (1997) Marine sulphur emissions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B.  352 : 159-169.

 Hatton, A. D.; Malin, G.; Turner, S. M. and Liss, P. S. (1996)  DMSO: A significant compound in the biogeochemical cycle of DMS.  In: Biological and Environmental Chemistry of DMSP and Related Sulphonium Compounds. (eds) R. P. Kiene; P. T. Visscher; M. D. Keller and G. O. Kirst. Plenum Press,  pp. 405-413.

 Hatton, A. D. (1995)  Dimethylsulphoxide in seawater. Ph.D. Thesis, University of East Anglia.

 Hatton, A. D.; Malin, G.; McEwan, A. G. and Liss, P. S. (1994)  Determination of dimethylsulphoxide in aqueous solution by an enzyme-linked method.  Analytical Chemistry, 66 : 4093-4096.

 Hatton, A. D.; Malin, G. and McEwan, A.G. (1994) Identification of a periplasmic dimethylsulphoxide reductase in Hyphomicrobium EG grown under chemolithoheterotrophic conditions with dimethylsulphoxide as carbon source.  Archives of Microbiology, 162 : 148-150.

Martin, J. H.; Coale, K. H.; Johnson, K. S.; Fitzwater, S. E.; Gordon, R. M.; Tanner, S. J.; Hunter, C. N.; Elrod, V. A.; Nowicki, J. L.; Coley, T. L.; Barber, R. T.; Lindley, S.; Watson, A. J.; Van Scoy, K.;  Law, C. S.; Liddicoat, M. I.; Ling, R.; Stanton, T.; Hatton, A.; and others  (1994) Testing the iron hypothesis in ecosystems of the equatorial Pacific Ocean.  Nature, 371 : 123-129.

Committee membership

Teaching / supervising activities

Module Leader for Biogeochemical Cycling and lecturer on the Ocean Circulation and Climate Change module of the Marine Science Degree.

supervision of Ph.D. students and undergraduate summer placements.

•  Supervised Louise Darroch on a NERC funded studentship in collaboration with P.S. Liss & G. Malin (UEA). Project title:  Dimethylsulphoxide origin, fate and cycling. Completed October 2003.     
•  Supervised Julian Pillans on a NERC studentship in collaboration with G. Uher & R. Upstil-Goddard (Newcastle University). Project title: Photochemical and photobiological controls of the marine sulphur cycle. Will submit his Thesis June 2006.
•  Director of Studies for Sam Wilson on an UHI millennium Institute studentship in collaboration with M. Hart, A.N. Miller (SAMS) and C. Law (NIWA). Project title: Production of biogenic gases in the upper ocean.  October 2003 - October 2006.
• Supervised 3 summer student placements (Katie Chamberlain, Charlotte Gough and Marie Moore).

• Supervised final year dissertation project (Marie Moore – Testing the CLAW hypothesis).

Other (e.g. measures of esteem)

• Awarded two NERC Postdoctoral Fellowships, 1997 and 2000.
• Member of the National Steering Committee for the NERC Thematic programme SOLAS (Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study).
• Member of Peer-Review College.
• Chair of the National Organising Committee for the Challenger Conference for Marine Science 2006.
• Chair of the Local Organising Committee for the Challenger Conference for Marine Science 2006.
• EU Expert Evaluator for Framework V & VI.
• Chair of the SAMS Library committee and member of the Teaching Quality Assurance Committee.
• Member of the National Organising Committee for the Challenger Conference for Marine Science 2000, 2004.
• Presented to the Queen at Buckingham Palace at a reception for the United Kingdoms Young Achievers 1999.
• Member of the External Validation Committee for two UHI Millennium Institute degrees.