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My interests include bioacoustics and biotremology (biological sounds and substrate-borne vibrations), and behavioural & sensory ecology. I have particular interests regarding anthropogenic stressors, such as noise (both as substrate-borne vibrations or acoustic waves), passive acoustic/vibrational monitoring and the detection abilities of animals. Much of my work to date has been based in the marine environment with fish and benthic invertebrates, but more recently I have been working with terrestrial arthropods, and also in soil bioacoustics.

Techniques: various methods of reproducing anthropogenic sources in the field; vibrational and chemical manipulations; large-scale underwater and sediment playbacks; baited underwater camera systems and sonar for animal observation; shaker systems for fine-scale vibrational manipulations in the laboratory; passive acoustic monitoring.

Disciplines: Marine Biology; Zoology; Sensory Ecology; Biotremology; Bioacoustics

Skills and expertise: Vibration Analysis; Underwater Acoustics; Ecology; Bioacoustics; Marine Ecology; Behavioural Science; Biotremology; Entomology

Measuring the vibrations of land hermit crabs (Coenobita compressus) in the Osa peninsula, Costa Rica. Photo credit Josh Emm ©

The use, and production, of substrate-borne vibrations and sounds by terrestrial and aquatic invertebrates

Underwater noise, water and substrate-borne, and the potential effects of this upon fishes and invertebrates

Passive vibroacoustic monitoring of soils, in particular reference to surface-dwelling and below-ground invertebrates