Overview

Broad research specialisms:

• Sperm biology,
• fertilisation ecology,
• marine invertebrates,
• climate change.

Qualifications

BSc Biology (Hons), MRes Marine Biology

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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.

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