Profile
Anna Campbell
PhD student
Geoffrey Pope Lab 201
Geoffrey Pope Building, University of Exeter , Stocker Road, Exeter, EX4 4QD, UK
Overview
Broad research specialisms:
- Sperm biology,
- fertilisation ecology,
- marine invertebrates,
- climate change.
Qualifications
BSc Biology (Hons), MRes Marine Biology
Research
Research projects
Project Title: Sperm pHertility; are faster marine invertebrate sperm more susceptible to ocean acidification?
Supervisors: Dr Ceri Lewis, Prof. Tamara Galloway, Prof. David Hosken
Funding Body: NERC
Project Description: Projected changes to seawater chemistry are fundamentally altering the fertilisation environments in which freely spawned sperm operate. My research examines both direct and indirect effects of ocean acidification upon a range of sperm performance parameters in order to gain a more complete understanding of sperm functioning in future acidified oceans and linking this to what is known of the ecology of marine invertebrate sperm performance.
Publications/Presentations:
Presentation at the 19th European Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology
(EMPSEB 19), ‘Free spawned sperm in a changing marine environment’.
Ocean Acidification Increases Copper Toxicity to the Early Life History Stages of the Polychaete Arenicola marina in Artificial Seawater. Anna L. Campbell , Stephanie Mangan , Robert P. Ellis , and Ceri Lewis . Environtal Science and Technology. 2014, 48 (16), pp 9745–9753.