The Marine Sciences Group is involved with a number of PhDs covering a range of subjects. Many of these involve work in tropical marine habitats, either partly or in full. A large number of these students have been awarded scholarships from a variety of sources including the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). To find out how to apply for a PhD within the CRRU or Marine Sciences Group, simply contact us
Previously funded PhDs undertaken at Essex featuring studies of coral reefs and their associated mangrove and seagrass habitats include:
Algal ecophysiology: Responses of marine macroalgae to a high CO2 environment (P. Kerrison)
Determining potential impacts of climate change and environmental degradation on the ecology of sponges in the Indo-Pacific (A. Powel)
Isoprene synthesis and degradation by estuarine, coral reef and open ocean microbial communities (D. Exton)
Connectivity in coastal marine ecosystems (P. Salinas)
Effect of habitat fragmentation on utilisation of salt marshes and mangroves by coastal fish communities (B. Green)
Resource partitioning amongst coral reef fish (J. Curtis-Quick)
The infochemical role of DMSP and related compounds in trophic interactions (M. Breckels)
The role of photoacclimation upon distribution of hermatypic coral species (S. Hennige)
Coral reef economics of small island states (L. Cullen)
Development of a conservation value index (CVI) for coral reef Systems (S. McMellor)
Tropical seagrass ecology (R. Unsworth)
