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Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute

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Learn about our scholars and their expertise from research interests to contact details.

Dr Charlie Thompson

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Coastal Monitoring
  • Coastal Processes
  • Sediment Stability, Resuspension and Exchange processes

Email: celt2@soton.ac.uk

Address: National Oceanography Centre, Waterfront Campus European Way, SO14 3ZH

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Professor Chris Armstrong

Professor of Political Theory

Research interests

  • Global justice
  • Climate justice
  • Ocean justice and ocean politics

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: c.armstrong@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Professor Chris Hauton PhD, FRSB, FMBA

Head of School

Research interests

  • Hauton has worked extensively with colleagues in India and Bangladesh since 2015 and has developed an international profile in shrimp health research, including contributing to the development of a mobile phone app, the 'Chingri Shrimp App', to support shrimp farmer training in Bangladesh.
  • Research has also included quantifying the potential toxic risk of deep sea mining of mineral resources. He was part of the leading team of the EC FP7 MIDAS Project, exploring the ecological risk of deep-sea mining, outputs from which led to contributions to the Royal Society Foresight Future of the Sea report (2016/17), to presentations at the UN International Seabed Authority in Jamaica, and expert contributions to the UN ISA ISA Legal and Technical Commision ISBA/27/C/11 'Guidelines for the establishment of baseline environmental data.'
  • Other activity

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: c.hauton@soton.ac.uk

Address: National Oceanography Centre, Waterfront Campus European Way, SO14 3ZH

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Professor Chris Hill

Professorial Fellow-Enterprise

Email: cth@geodata.soton.ac.uk

Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Professor Christer Petley

Professor of Atlantic History

Research interests

  • Atlantic History
  • Caribbean History
  • Slavery and Abolition

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: c.petley@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

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Dr Christopher Goatley

Lecturer in Marine Biology

Research interests

  • Fish ecology, evolution and biogeography
  • Impact of sediments on coral reef ecology
  • Palaeoecology of reef ecosystems

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: c.goatley@soton.ac.uk

Address: National Oceanography Centre, Waterfront Campus European Way, SO14 3ZH

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Dr Chuang Xuan

Associate Professor

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: c.xuan@soton.ac.uk

Address: National Oceanography Centre, Waterfront Campus European Way, SO14 3ZH

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Professor Clive Trueman

Professor

Research interests

  • Stable isotope ecology in marine settings
  • Ecophysiology (fishes)
  • Sclerochronology

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: trueman@soton.ac.uk

Address: National Oceanography Centre, Waterfront Campus European Way, SO14 3ZH

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Professor Craig Hutton

Director Sustainability&Resilience Inst.

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: cwh@geodata.soton.ac.uk

Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Professor Craig Lambert

Professor

Research interests

  • Late medieval naval operations and logistics
  • Medieval and Tudor maritime communities
  • Late medieval and Tudor merchant shipping

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: c.lambert@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF