Postgraduate projects

"An investigation of the relationship between 'in service' roughness of marine coatings and their impact on boundary layer flow dynamics/drag and ship operational efficiency"

Student: Frank Bagley

Project Leader(s):  Prof. Tony Clare, Drs Simon Benson and Paul Hamblett

Contact: tony.clare@ncl.ac.uk

Sponsor(s): AkzoNobel

 

"Development of a novel UV-C antifouling system: application to niche areas"

Student: Paul Whitworth

Supervisory team: Prof Tony Clare; Dr Nick Aldred (Essex University); Dr Kevin Reynolds (AkzoNobel)

Contact: tony.clare@ncl.ac.uk

Sponsor(s): Dstl

 

"Biofouling invertebrates and their larvae as vectors of antimicrobial resistance and marine pathogens"

Student: Jessica Clarke

Supervisory Team: Prof Tony Clare; Dr Nick Aldred (Essex University); Dr Andrew Nelson (Northumbria University); Dr Thomas Vance (PML Applications Ltd; CASE partner)

Contact: tony.clare@ncl.ac.uk

Sponsor(s): NERC ONE Planet DTP

 

"Biogeographical variation in the sponge core microbiome"

Student: Sakinah Hussain Al-Haddad

Supervisory team: Prof Tony Clare and Dr Gary Caldwell

Contact: tony.clare@ncl.ac.uk

Sponsor: Kuwait

 

"Future biofouling"

Student: Ainsley Hatt

Project Leader(s):  Prof. Lloyd Peck (British Antarctic Survey), Prof Tony Clare, Prof Melody Clark (BAS)

Contact: tony.clare@ncl.ac.uk

Sponsor(s): NERC IAPETUS2 Doctoral Training Programme

The aim of this project is to understand how biofouling of marine structures will be affected under future climate warming.

References:

Ashton, G.V., Morley, S.A., Barnes, D.K.A., Clark, M.S., Peck, L.S. (2017) Heated settlement panels show 1°C warming drives species assemblage level responses in Antarctica’s marine shallows. Current Biol. 27, 2698-2705.

Barnes, D.K.A., Ashton, G.V., Morley, S.A., Peck, L.S. (2021). 1 °C warming increases spatial competition frequency and complexity in Antarctic marine macrofauna. Commun. Biol. 4, 208.