Catie Gutmann Roberts

Academic profile

Dr Catie Gutmann Roberts

Senior Research Fellow
School of Biological and Marine Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)

The Global Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Catie's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

Goal 04: SDG 4 - Quality EducationGoal 14: SDG 14 - Life Below WaterGoal 15: SDG 15 - Life on LandGoal 16: SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong InstitutionsGoal 17: SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

About Catie

Interested in the aquatic ecology and conservation, especially freshwater. Researches trophic and spawning dynamics of native and non native fishes. Understanding how barriers affect the timing and success of movements, especially those related to spawning migrations. Interested in early life stages, especially the egg and larval stage of fish that bury eggs within sediment and therefore cannot move to seek better environmental conditions. Interested in public engagement and using evidence based conservation methods to manage the environment. Advocate of citizen and community science as an inclusive method for data collection and as an engagement tool.  

Supervised Research Degrees

Kate Vogiatzis (PhD student, University of Plymouth) 2019 - Forest biomass following wildfire disturbance in Ghana

Rose Boardman (PhD student, Bournemouth University) 2020 - Phenology and ecology of the critically endangered European eel during their marine to freshwater transition

Vanessa de Santis (PhD Bournemouth University/ University of Insubria) 2017 - 2020  Ecological impacts of the invasive and cryptic Barbus barbus L. (Pisces: Cyprinidae)

Matthew Harris (MRes Bournemouth University) 2018 - 2020 The life cycle of the parasite Pomphorhynchus tereticollis in reference to 0+ cyprinids and the intermediate host Gammarus spp in the UK

Teaching

Module lead for stage 2 Environmental Expedition and Environmental Management and Sustainability in Practice. Teaching on undergraduate modules; The Biospherre, Biological Conservation and Sustainability Science. Teaching on masters module Ecological Survey Evaluation and Mitigation.

Contact Catie

A502 Portland Square, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
+44 1752 585991