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. Miriam's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Supervised Research Degrees
I am currently supervising one MRes student and one PhD student (Doctoral Teaching Assistant):
- Ana Coelho Ferreira: Functional implications of hard coral-soft coral shifts on reef fish communities (ResM)
- Sarah Hinckley: Do complex signals help structure intertidal communities? Chemical ecology of patellid limpet mucus (DTA)
Teaching
I am module leader for:
- MBIO226: Experimental Marine Biology Field Course (B.Sc. Marine Biology, 2nd year).
I also teach on:
- MBIO120 Introduction to Marine Biology (1st year)
- MBIO123 Marine Biology Field Course (1st Year)
- MBIO223 Methods in Marine Biology (2nd Year)
- MBIO329 Marine Biology and Evolutionary Approach (3rd Year)
- MBIO327 Marine Ecology (3rd Year)
- MBAM5106 Advanced Research in Marine Biology (MRes)
I also supervise around 8 undergraduate student projects a year, and some masters students.
Current MRes Students:
- Luke Herring: Studying the metabolomic response of different populations of Acropora pulchra and Acropora aspera to thermal stress for restoration purposes.
- Constance Little: Linking organismal physiology with environmental health: heat-stress associated changes in coral holobionts metabolic profiles.
- Laura Paling: Investigating the impacts of allelopathy from the sponge Lamelodysidea herbacea from Moorea, French Polynesia, on Acropora pulchra and Pocillopora acuta.
- Graham Sharpe: Spatiotemporal Metabolomic and Morphological Variation in the Cosmopolitan Intertidal Sponge Hymeniacidon perlevis: Exploring Bioindication Potential.
