Team
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Jennifer Argo
Project Coordinator +
Lead Artist and Arts Educator
Jennifer Argo is an award-winning artist whose work explores complex ecosystems, geological timescales, and environments impacted by climate change. She hosts workshops, developing skills in creative mediums, confidence, skill-sharing, and collaboration.
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Dr Neil Banas
Lead Science Consultant
Dr Banas has 20 years of experience mathematically modelling links between climate, ocean food webs, coastal human communities, and formal and informal education that weaves together natural science, the humanities and the arts.
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https://www.changing-arctic-ocean.ac.uk/profile/dr-neil-banas/
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Professor Michael Heath
Science Consultant
Professor Heath is a researcher in microbiology, oceanography, marine biology and mathematics. Lead of the NERC Changing Arctic Ocean project “Microbes to Megafauna Modelling of the Arctic Seas” (MiMeMo).
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Dr Emma Tyldesley
Assisting Oceanography Researcher
Emma Tyldesley is an oceanographer with the University of Strathclyde and the Atlantic Salmon Trust, investigating the decline in marine survival of wild Atlantic Salmon. She is using biophysical ocean model hindcasts of the Northeast Atlantic to understand the environment experienced by salmon in their first few months at sea.
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Paul Udom
Assisting PhD Researcher
Paul Udom is a PhD student at the University of Strathclyde. Currently, Paul is researching the oceanography and ecology of toxic blooms (HABs) in US Pacific Northwest using a combination of biophysical ocean model, satellite remote sensing and observations to make model predictions. He previously worked as a lecturer in marine biology at Akwa Ibom State University Nigeria.
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Aislinn Borland
Assisting PhD Researcher
Aislinn Borland is a PhD student at the University of Strathclyde, investigating the marine migration of Atlantic salmon using modelling techniques.
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Greg Macmillan
Assisting PhD Researcher
Greg Macmillan is a PhD student at the University of Strathclyde, funded by SUPER DTP. Currently, Greg is researching plankton size diversity in UK coastal waters. He previously worked alongside the AFBI when he completed his undergraduate dissertation.
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Dr Alison Cathcart
Social History Consultant
Dr Cathcart is an Associate Professor of Early Modern Scottish History at the University of Stirling. Her current research focus is on insular communities within the wider archipelago exploring customary legal practices and resource management.
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Dr Chris Leakey
Impact Guidance + Evaluation
Dr Leakey is the MASTS Research Forums Officer, and coordinates the People-Ocean-Planet initiative, boosting science outreach impact. His experience includes managing the OceanARTic project, steering a ‘Just-Transition’ art residency and evaluating arts-based public engagement through a CoP26 Collaborative Project.
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Daniel Tulloch
Photographer
Daniel Tulloch is a photographer from the remote Shetland Isles in Scotland. He has worked and travelled internationally documenting people, land, and what takes place across it. He takes down to earth candid documentary style photography.
Tulloch has also worked with NERC on temp contracts on RRS James Cook and RRS Discovery, and works as merchant navy deck officer on the west coast of Scotland.
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