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. Laura's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Laura
Current role - Doctoral Teaching Assistant and PhD Student Project Title: Reconfiguring seascapes in the Anthropocene: Assessing how connectivity pathways maintain biodiversity I recently started my role as a Doctoral Teaching Assistant in January 2023, during which I am working towards a PhD in Marine Sciences and teaching at the University of Plymouth part-time. The aim of my PhD is to model the dispersal pathways of coastal marine communities in the North Atlantic to improve predictions of community assembly and feed into marine spatial planning. I obtained my academic and ecological foundations at the University of Sussex where I obtained my B.Sc. and undertook a pilot study in the Ecuadorian Chocó rainforest studying the behaviour, diet, distribution and local perception of the neotropical river otter. For my postgraduate thesis at Imperial College London, I shifted my focus from freshwater to marine systems and collated a large dataset containing global carbon measurements from seagrass sites. The project focused on linking high carbon storage sites with a range of environmental parameters using a machine learning algorithm. After obtaining my M.Sc., I joined Imperial College London as a research assistant and worked on a second project comparing intra and inter-site variability between a high and low carbon storage seagrass meadow in Plymouth. This work was supported by the Ocean Conservation Trust and an Imperial College FSRF grant. I have also worked within the media and communications sector and support work and have an interest in the terrestrial and marine outdoors being a keen hiker, trail runner and cyclist as well as a swimmer and scuba diver.
Contact Laura
laura.bachmaier@plymouth.ac.uk
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