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Marine & Freshwater Ecology & Environmental Management

Examples of Projects undertaken on the MRes courses

Glasgow offers a wide diversity of research expertise in Biology, so that we are well placed to provide supervision of research on many different subject areas. Within our three M.Res. courses (MFE, EBS, EEB: see below) we have recently had student research projects on:

MFE - Marine & Freshwater Ecology and Environmental Managment

  • Habitat use by Red Sea reef fish
  • Immunisation of fish in aquaculture against infectious disease
  • Impacts of oil pollution around a single-point mooring in Oman
  • Homing behaviour of groupers in Nabq Protected Area, Egypt
  • Spring growth of diatoms under the ice in Svalbard  (MFE)
  • Ecology of basking sharks in the Clyde
  • Mercury dynamics in Mediterranean marine foodwebs
  • Shark distribution and abundance in the Red Sea  (MFE)
  • Long-line bycatch mitigation in the Alaskan halibut fishery  (MFE)

EBS - Evolutionary Biology and Systematics

  • Cross-species utility of microsatellite markers in parasitic nematodes
  • Co-evolution between sucking lice and rodents
  • Racial distinctiveness of the subspecies of Starling in the Azores
  • Aquatic macrophytes as indicators of the ecological status of Scottish lochs
  • Co-evolution of albatrosses and their feather lice

EEB - Evology & Environmental Biology

  • Mercury in feathers of seabirds from South Georgia
  • Modelling thermoregulation in pupping seals
  • Morphological plasticity in the red mangrove in Grand Cayman
  • Interactions between yellow-legged gulls and roseate terns in the Azores
  • Male phenotype, antioxidants and fertility in the zebra finch
  • Great skua diets in Orkney and Shetland
  • Stable isotopes, contaminants and antioxidants in sequentially laid eggs
  • Porcupine feeding preferences in eastern Canada
  • Tree-frog ecology in Trinidad

Some of the Institutions/Organisations our M.Res students went on to

Nikki Lewis, from Scotland, at work in the lab at Maringa State University, during her visit to Brazil to collect data for her first dissertation on riverine vegetation of sub-tropical Brazilian streams, December 2003

  • Samir is now working for a coral reef NGO in India
  • Fraser is a dive instructor in Jordan
  • Laura took up a position at the Bremen Institute for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT)
  • Julissa is undertaking a PhD at Glasgow University with Dr Kevin Murphy on river macrophyte ecology
  • Justyna is working on freshwater biology for Dr Willie Yeomans at the Clyde River Foundation
  • John went to do a PhD at Warwick in molecular ecology
  • Nikki went on to do a teaching qualification in Glasgow, then taught  in Grand Cayman, before moving back to a teaching post at a school in Glasgow
  • Lemonia is working for an environmental consultancy firm, back home in Athens
  • Kathy is undertaking a PhD with Dr David Bailey, here in Glasgow, working on marine biodiversity
  • Andy is working for a PhD with Prof Douglas Neil here in Glasgow on the trophic dynamics and population genetics of the Norway lobster
  • Lindsay moved to a PhD position at Victoria University, Wellington (New Zealand)
  • Sara is starting a PhD with Dr Kevin Murphy on the use of desert plants to help ameliorate pollution caused by oil spillage and oilwell fires in Kuwait

Some of the more exotic locations for MRes projects in recent years  have included southern Brazil, Trinidad, Tobago, Kuwait, Egypt, Svalbard (Norway), Canada, the Azores (Portugal), Oman,  Cayman Islands, and The Philippines.