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Photo of Professor Black in orange hard hat and swim vest with sediment core during sampling trip

Professor Kenneth D Black

SAMS Honorary Research Fellow
Expertise

Environmental impacts of aquaculture; sediment geochemistry; modelling

Picture of our honorary research fellow and former colleague Ruth Brennan

Dr Ruth Brennan

Honorary Research Fellow
Expertise

Environment-society relationships; art-science collaborations; marine governance and policy; ecosystem approach

Susannah Calderan on fieldwork with acoustic probe

Susannah Calderan

Honorary Research Fellow in Marine Mammal Ecology
Expertise

Marine mammal ecology; acoustics

Christine Campbell sitting on a microscope in her white lab coat in the laboratory

Christine Campbell

SAMS Honorary Fellow
Expertise

Algal culture; protistan culture; toxic algae; cryopreservation; algal taxonomy

Dr James Clive Angus Craik

Honorary Research Fellow
Expertise

Seabirds breeding on small islands; bird-ringing; entomology (esp moths and armyworms)

Head and shoulder photo of our honorary research fellow Dr Zoe Hutchison

Dr Zoë Hutchison

SAMS Honorary Research Fellow
Expertise

Benthic ecology, anthropogenic effects and impacts, offshore energy, electromagnetic fields

Dr Leakey aboard a research vessel as principal scientific officer

Dr Raymond Leakey

Honorary Research Fellow
Expertise

Microbial ecology; polar oceanography; biogeochemistry; research vessels

Photo of David Meldrum in Antarctica with two penguins and the research vessel in the background

Professor David Meldrum FInstP

SAMS Honorary Fellow
Expertise

Polar instruments; satellite communication; autonomous instruments; sub-sea communications cables

Pedro Morua on fieldwork taking photos of seaweed on his phone

Dr Pedro Murúa

Honorary Research Fellow
Expertise

Seaweed propagation; diversity of algal diseases; seaweed immunity

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