I have had the pleasure of supervising a number of post-docs, PhD students, Masters students, Honours students, and volunteers.

An overview of people and projects are listed below. A selection of student theses are available via the Marley Lab page on ResearchGate.

Research Associates

2019-20  Regina Kolzenburg “Decoding the Deep: Applying artificial intelligence to marine soundscapes”

2019-20  Yongqiang Lu “Decoding the Deep: Applying artificial intelligence to marine soundscapes”

PhD Students

2023-27 Claire Stainfield “Sustainability of seal tourism in the Ythan Estuary”

2023-27 Emma Lowe “Opportunities and challenges for community-led marine citizen science”

2023-27 Keir Beaton  “Life in the Belly of a Whale: Genomic and population genetic approaches to disentangle the adaptations of the parasitic family brachycladiidae and how it interacts with its cetacean host”

2022-26 Victoria Graves “Interactive effects of moorland management and rewilding on predator – prey interactions”

2021-25 Rochelle Kennedy “Sustaining biodiversity through mixed farming systems”

2020-21 Gonzalo Araujo “Ecology of whale sharks in the Philippines” [PhD by Publication]

2019-23 Lucy Martin “Marine wood-borer attack viewed from a zoological perspective to inform evaluation of wood modification processes”

2019-22 James Robbins “Vessel collisions with large whales – behavioural responses and areas of risk”

2018-22 Diana Rocha “Impacts of swim-with-dolphin tourism to a resident population of dolphins”

MRes Students

2021-22 Michael Scales “Understand the socio-economic value, and tourists perceptions of blue shark tourism in the UK”

2021-22 Gemma Scotts “Understand the socio-cultural relationship of anglers with blue sharks in the UK”

MSc Students

2024-25 Fanny Reychler “Rathlin Island seals haul-out patterns according to environmental and anthropogenic drivers”

2024-25 Victoria Chanin “Choosing a bait station for pine marten bib image capture: Comparing the Giggler and the T-sniffer”

2022-23 Abi Ledwith “A novel approach to monitoring wader abundance and productivity”

2022-23 Eve Schulte “Impact of larch felling on goshawk breeding success”

2020-21 Phylippa Foster “Haul-out behaviour of the Solent Seals”

2019-20 Robyne Castles “Occurrence of marine mammals around the Isle of Wight”

2019-20 Anirban Ganguly “Remote sensing of seal haul-out behaviour in Poole Harbour”

2019-20 Helen Webb “Changing harbour porpoise distributions around the UK”

2018-19 Emma Bell “Identification of areas of importance for beaked whales in the Bay of Biscay”

2018-19 Stephanie Hollanda “Predictive models of harbour porpoise density from platforms of opportunity data in the North Sea”

2018-19 Christian Rivers-Martin “Anthropogenic disturbance of harbour seals in Chichester Harbour”

2018-19 Joseph Stephens “Haul-out patterns of harbour seals in Chichester Harbour”

Honours Students

2024-25 Giverny Maidlow Fitzgerald “Environmental drivers behind bottlenose dolphin foraging activity in Aberdeen Harbour”

2024-25 Isobel Anderson “Seal abundance, vigilance rates, and behaviour at an urban haul-out site”

2023-24 Iona Macleod “Environmental and anthropogenic drivers of dolphin occurrence in Aberdeen Harbour”

2023-24 Kirsty Melville “Salmon spawning habitat in the River Dee, Scotland”

2023-24 Naomi Smith “Seasonal and habitat differences in the diet of the Eurasian badger”

2021-22 Andrea Gray “Records of cetaceans stranded in European Seas”

2020-21 Chloe Allen “Sex-specific scarring patterns in bottlenose dolphins in Mozambique”

2020-21 Maia Behmber “Public perceptions of shark conservation in the UK”

2020-21 Liam Chant “Changes in seagrass coverage within the Solent”

2020-21 Natasha Fresson “Acoustic occurrence of delphinids around Jersey”

2020-21 Samuel Gollop “The summer marine soundscape of Langstone Harbour”

2020-21 Thomas Hunt “The prevalence of ectoparasites in bottlenose dolphins in Mozambique”

2020-21 Jasmine Leggo “Public perceptions of marine mammal conservation in the UK”

2020-21 Laura McConnell “Age-specific scarring patterns in bottlenose dolphins in Mozambique”

2020-21 Sophie Smith “Acoustic occurrence of harbour porpoise around Jersey”

2020-21 Theo Vickers “Marine mammal occurrence in the English Channel”

2020-21 Shaye Wettner “Prevalence of shark bites in bottlenose dolphins in Mozambique”

2019-20 George Constantinou “Promoting sea turtle conservation through science outreach activities”

2019-20 Michael Scales “Occurrence of marine mammals around Jersey using citizen science data”

2019-20 Gemma Scotts “Spatio-temporal patterns of elasmobranch diversity around Jersey”

2019-20 Edward Smith “Using photographic-identification to monitor harbour seal abundance and site fidelity in the Solent”

2019-20 Margarida Vieira “Population composition and distribution of loggerhead sea turtles along Argostoli Harbour and Koutavos Lagoon, Greece”

2019-20 Ryan Young “The underwater soundscape of Langstone Harbour in spring”

2018-19 Robyne Castles “Monitoring population trends of the Solent seals”

2018-19 Charles Kulczyk “Spatial and temporal distribution of shorebirds within Chichester Harbour”

2018-19 Lucy Martin “An exploration of the underwater soundscape of Langstone Harbour”

2018-19 Fiona Woods “Use and usefulness of photographic-identification in harbour seals”