Telephone 01632 559374

e-mail christine.beveridge@sams.ac.uk

Scientific interests

• Invasive Species
• interactions with aquaculture - population studies on Caprella mutica
• hull fouling as transport vector – marina surveys
• Finfish recruitment
• population studies on the west coast of Scotland including Zooplankton monitoring.
• Rocky shore ecology – particularly marine macro algae.

Current projects

Marine Aliens - Conserving native marine biodiversity by raising awareness of non-native species.  www.marlin.ac.uk/marine_aliens

Invasive Alga - Controlling the spread of the invasive macroalga Sargassum muticum. 

Population dynamics of marine finfish  - Juvenile plaice surveys and Zooplankton trawling and identification. www.eur-oceans.eu/

Zooplankton - Papua New Guinea survey.

Previous work

Algal assays using Ulva linza and the diatom Nitzchia perminuta for assessment of novel antifouling surfaces.

Development of novel strategies to reduce marine biofouling on underwater instruments.

Algal culture and larval rearing in first feeding unit of a Halibut Hatchery

Algal culture and maintenance of constant environment facility used for shellfish rearing.

Studies of genetic variation in Mytilus edulis populations.

Microbiological assays for Biotechnology Transfer Centre.

Algal surveys on rocky shores around Anglesey.

Educational and Career history

Publications

Beaumont, A.R., Beveridge C.M. and Budd M.D.  1983, Selection and Heterozygosity within single families of the mussel Mytilus edulis (L.). Mar.Biol. Lett. 4, 151-161

Beaumont, A.R. and Beveridge C.M.  1983, Resolution of Phosphoglucomutase isozyme in Mytilus edulis (L.). Mar.Biol. Lett. 4, 97-103

Beaumont, A.R. and Beveridge C.M.  1984, Electrophoretic survey of genetic variation in Pecten maximus, Chlamys opercularis, C. varia and C. distoria from the Irish Sea. Marine Biology 81, 299-306

Beaumont, A.R., Gosling, E.M., Beveridge C.M., Budd, M.M. and Burnell, G.M.  1984, Studies on heterozygosity and size in the scallop, Pecten maximus.  Proceedings of the Nineteenth European Marine Biology Symposium. 443-454

Beaumont, A.R., Beveridge C.M., Barnet E.A., Budd M.D. and Smyth-Chamosa, M. 1988, Genetic studies of laboratory reared Mytilus edulis. 1. Genetype specific selection in relation to salinity.  Heredity 61, 389-400

Beaumont, A.R., Beveridge C.M., Barnet E.A., and Budd M.D. 1989, Genetic studies of laboratory reared Mytilus edulis. 2. Selection at the Leucine amino peptidase (Lap) locus.  Heredity 62, 169-176

Beaumont, A.R., Beveridge C.M., Barnet E.A., and Budd M.D. 1990, Genetic studies of laboratory reared Mytilus edulis. 3. Scored loci act as markers for genotype-specific mortalities which are unrelated to temperature.  Marine Biology 106, 227-233

Cowling, M.J., Hodgkiess, T., Kerr, A., Parr, A.C.S., Smith, M.J. and Beveridge, C.M. March 1998  ‘Biofouling of Oceanographic Sensors – Is there a solution?’, Proceedings OI ’98, Brighton

Cowling, M.J., Hodgkiess, T., Parr, A.C.S., Smith, M.J., Kerr, A., Beveridge, C.M., Clegg, M. and Menlove, R.  March 1998  ‘The effects of biofouling on imaging underwater, including possible remedies’.  Proceedings Underwater Optics III , Applied Optics and Optoelectronics, Institute of Physics, Brighton.

Kerr, A., Head, R.M., Cowling, M.J., Davenport J., Beveridge, C.M., Smith, M.J,. Parr, A.C.S., and Hodgkiess, T.  1998.  ‘The early stages of marine biofouling and its effect on two types of optical sensors’.  Environment International, Vol 24, No. 3, pp331-343

Parr, A.C.S., Smith, M.J., Beveridge, C.M., Kerr, A., Cowling, M.J., and Hodgkiess, T.  1998  ‘Optical assessment of a fouling-resistant surface (PHEMA/Benzalkonium Chloride) after exposure to a marine environment’. Advanced Materials for Optics and Electronics 8, pp187-193

Kerr, A., Hodgkiess, T., Cowling, M.J., Beveridge, C.M., Smith, M.J. and Parr, A.C.S. 1998  ‘A novel technique to prevent bacterial fouling, using imposed surface potential’. Journal of Applied Microbiology 85 (6), pp1067-1072

Beveridge, C.M., Parr, A.C.S., Smith, M.J., Kerr, A., Cowling, M.J. and Hodgkiess, T.  1998  ‘The effect of Benzalkonium Chloride concentrations on nine species of marine diatom’.  Environment Pollution, 103 (1), pp31-36

Kerr, A., Beveridge, C.M., Cowling, M.J., Hodgkiess, T.,  Parr, A.C.S. and Smith, M.J,  1999  ‘Some physical factors affecting the accumulation of biofouling’. Journal of Marine Biological Association UK. 79 (2), pp357-359

Kerr, A., Hodgkiess, T., Cowling, M.J. Smith, M.J. and Beveridge, C.M.  1999  ;Effects of galvanically induced surface potentials on marine fouling’.  Letters in Applied Microbiology 29 (1) pp56-60 (5)