I carried out my PhD in ENV after completing an undergraduate degree in Chemistry at the University of Bath. I joined Cefas in 2001 and have worked on a variety of projects looking at nutrient cycling in UK shelf seas. I am part of the SmartBuoy team at Cefas, deploying instrumentation for making in situ observations of the pelagic ecosystem. I co-supervise three PhD students in ENV. 

My research interests include nutrient biogeochemistry and the cycling of nutrients in the marine environment. I am interested in the use of autonomous instrumentation to obtain high frequency in situ measurements for understanding ecosystem processes and functioning in shelf seas. More recently I have been looking at the effect of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations on the carbonate chemistry of UK shelf seas using a combination of in situ and discrete sampling techniques.