"Anthropogenic climate change is causing unprecedented change to ocean ecosystems. Working at PML allows me to engage in far-reaching, impactful, highly collaborative research that enables a deeper understanding of the marine environment and ultimately – helps provide solutions to the unique challenges we face in the conservation and sustainable management of our oceans and seas. "
Dr. Liz Talbot is an early career marine ecologist, and over the course of her career so far has developed expertise through collaborating on UK, European and global research programmes. Her research aims to assess the risks posed by climate change and anthropogenic stressors such as artificial light at night to marine species, predominantly using empirical and experimental ecological assessments and bio-energetic modelling techniques. She also extends this work further, using projections of species and ecosystem responses to climate change to inform marine planning, as part of PML’s climate-smart Marine Protected Areas and Planning team. She has experience working in the context of multi-disciplinary research consortia, integrating environmental and social sciences. She also sits on the working group for the Royal Society Ocean Science in Public Life programme, an initiative aims to build bridges between early career researchers and policymakers working in and around the field of marine science, which is recognised as a UN Decade of Ocean Science Action.