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PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY

The Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) is an independent and impartial collaborative centre of the U. K. Natural Environment Research Council. The Laboratory has a staff of approximately 130, together with a large number of research students and visitors. Its main strategic science and technology research interests include man's impact on the sea, sustainable development and exploitation of marine resources, coastal zone management, marine biodiversity, health of the oceans and global change. With respect to the present project, PML has pioneered modern approaches in the study and modelling of feeding behaviour, metabolism and growth in marine invertebrates, especially shellfish.

Plymouth Marine Laboratory,
Prospect Place,
The Hoe,Plymouth PL1 3DH
Devon, United Kingdom

Telephone: +44(0)1752 633100
Fax: +44(0)1752 633101

Tony Hawkins : Contact by Email
Dr. A. J. S. (Tony) Hawkins is Head of Science for the theme of Functional Biodiversity at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, where he is employed by the U. K. Natural Environment Research Council. He holds a B.Sc. Hons. (First Class) in Zoology from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand (1979), and a Ph.D. in Zoology from Exeter University (1983). His current research interests include resolving subtle but significant differences in filter-feeding behaviour and growth under varying natural environmental conditions in separate species of bivalve shellfish (i.e. mussels, oysters, scallops, clams), using findings to help model environmental carrying capacities for mariculture, including the effects of species composition, culture practise and stocking levels on key ecosystem processes. He has co-ordinated or participated in 5 European research projects, and worked overseas on shellfish in America, Australia, Canada, China, France, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain and Thailand, publishing more than 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers within international journals.

Philip Pascoe : Contact by Email
Phil Pascoe (BSc Zoology; PhD) is a Senior Scientist within the Functional Biodiversity Group at PML and has gained extensive experience in various fields within marine biology and ecology since first joining the Marine Biological Association (Plymouth) in 1980. Active involvement in EU, DOE and NERC funded projects on cephalopod biology, ecotoxicology of heavy metals (primarily the effects of TBT pollution on marine invertebrates), genetic toxicology and cytogenetics has lead to his authorship of over 30 scientific papers. Current research interests involve the feeding physiology of shellfish and sustainable aquaculture, and the genetics of muricid gastropods. He has collaborated on previous projects in Portugal (Madeira, Azores), France and China