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Dr Helen Findlay

Biological Oceanographer



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Dr Helen Findlay is a biological oceanographer who uses a combination of experimental, observational and modelling tools to investigate the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on marine organisms and ecosystem functioning. She has an interest in understanding the biological, physical and chemical interactions within the marine environment, specifically relating to carbon biogeochemical cycling, with a particular focus in Arctic regions.

Helen was the first recipient of the PML Lord Kingsland Fellowship, allowing her to continue her research on ocean acidification in both temperate seas and in the Arctic. She is currently involved in the UK Shelf Seas Biogeochemistry Programme; participating on the cruises to investigate nutrient and carbon biogeochemical cycling in sediments. Helen was involved in the UK Ocean Acidification project, offering advice for setting-up and running long-term CO2 experiments, and is lead PI on an Arctic project Ocean Acidification in Arctic Fjords. Helen facilitates PML's carbon chemistry research, with an aim to understand short-term variability relating to ocean acidification and climate change.

Helen is also involved in the outreach of marine science to schools and educators, working alongside Digital Explorer and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) to promote ocean learning in the classroom.

Projects

Shelf Seas Biogeochemistry research programme: biogeochemistry
Completed

Shelf Seas Biogeochemistry research programme: biogeochemistry, macronutrient and carbon cycling in the benthic layer

Contact: Professor Steve Widdicombe

The shelf seas are of major importance to society, providing a diverse range of goods, such as fisheries, renewable energy, transport and services...

Benthic acidification
Completed

Benthic acidification: UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme

Contact: Professor Steve Widdicombe

The aim of this consortium project, as part of the UK Ocean Acidfication Research Programme was to quantify, predict and communicate the impact of...

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Other key projects

Current:
IUCN Mission Blue: Ocean Acidification in Arctic Fjords

NERC UK Shelf Sea Biogeochemistry

NERC UK Ocean Acidification

ESA Pathfinders - Ocean Acidification 

Past:
Catlin Arctic Survey (2010 – 2011)

EU FP7 European Project on Ocean Acidification (2008-2012)


Recent publications

  • Keys, M; Tilstone, GH; Findlay, HS; Widdicombe, CE; Lawson, T. 2018 Effects of elevated CO2 and temperature on phytoplankton community biomass, species composition and photosynthesis during an experimentally induced autumn bloom in the western English Channel. Biogeosciences, 15. 3203-3222. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-3203-2018
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  • Venello, TA; Calosi, P; Turner, LM; Findlay, HS. 2017 Overwintering individuals of the Arctic krill Thysanoessa inermis appear tolerant to short term exposure to low pH conditions. Polar Biology. 10.1007/s00300-017-2194-0
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  • Calder-Potts, R; Spicer, JI; Calosi, P; Findlay, HS; Widdicombe, S. 2015 A mesocosm study investigating the effects of hypoxia and population density on respiration and reproductive biology in the brittlestar Amphiura filiformis. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 534. 135-147. 10.3354/meps11379
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  • Findlay, HS; Edwards, LA; Lewis, CN; Cooper, GA; Clement, R; Harman-Mountford, N; Vagle, S; Miller, LA. 2015 Late winter biogeochemical dynamics under sea ice in the Canadian High Arctic. Polar Research, 34 (24170). 10.3402/polar.v34.24170
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  • Werner, K; Fritz, M; Morata, N; Keil, K; Pavlov, A; Peeken, I; Nikolopoulos, A; Findlay, HS; Kedra, M; Majaneva, S; Renner, A; Hendricks, S; Jacquot, M; Nicolaus, M; O'Regan, M; Sampei, M; Wegner, S. 2016 Arctic in Rapid Transition: Priorities for the future of marine and coastal research in the Arctic.. Polar Science, 10 (3). 364-373. 10.1016/j.polar.2016.04.005
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  • Henry, L-A; Stehmann, MFW; de Clippele, L; Findlay, HS; Golding, N; Roberts, JM. 2016 Seamount egg-laying grounds of the deepwater skate Bathyraja richardsoni (Garrick 1961). Journal of Fish Biology, 89 (2). 1473-1481. 10.1111/jfb.13041
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Selected key publications

Henry, L.-A., Vad, J., Findlay, H.S., Murillo, J., Milligan, R., Roberts, J.M., 2014. Environmental variability and biodiversity of megabenthos on the Hebrides Terrace Seamount (Northeast Atlantic). Nature Scientific Reports, 4: 5589, doi: 10.1038/srep05589

Findlay, H.S., Hennige, S.J., Wicks L.C., Moreno Navas J., Woodward E.M.S., Roberts J.M., 2014. Fine-scale nutrient and carbonate system dynamics around cold-water coral reefs in the northeast Atlantic. Nature Scientific Reports, 4: 3671-3681, doi:10.1038/srep03671 

Lewis, C.N.,* K.A. Brown, L. Edwards, G. Cooper, H.S. Findlay,* 2013. (*contributed equally) Sensitivity to ocean acidification parallels natural pCO2 gradients experienced by Arctic copepods under winter sea ice. PNAS 110: E4960-E4967, doi:10.1073/pnas.1315162110.

Land, P.E., Shutler J.D., Cowling R.D., Woolf D.K., Walker P., Findlay H.S., 2013. Climate change impacts on sea-air fluxes of CO2 in three Arctic seas: a sensitivity study using Earth observation. Biogeosci. 10: 8109-8128, doi:10.5194/bg-10-8109-2013 

Lewis, C.N.,* K.A. Brown, L. Edwards, G. Cooper, H.S. Findlay,* In press. (*contributed equally) Sensitivity to ocean acidification parallels natural pCO2 gradients experienced by Arctic copepods under winter sea ice. PNAS.

Land, P.E., J.D. Shutler, R.D. Cowling, D.K. Woolf, P. Walker, H.S. Findlay, in press. Climate change impacts on sea-air fluxes of CO2 in three Arctic seas: a sensitivity study using Earth observation. Biogeosci.

Russel, B., S.D. Connell, H.S. Findlay, K. Tait, S. Widdicombe, N. Mieszkowska, (2013). Unbalanced ecosystems: ocean acidification and temperature increase primary productivity but supress consumption. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B., 368, 20120438, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0438.

Findlay, H.S., Y. Artioli, J. Moreno Nava, S.J. Hennige, L.C. Wicks, V.A.I. Huvenne, E.M.S. Woodward, J.M. Roberts, 2013. Tidal downwelling and implications for the carbon biogeochemistry of cold-water corals in relation to future ocean acidification and warming. Glob. Change Biol. 19, 2708-2719, doi: 10.1111/gcb.12256

Findlay, H.S., H.L. Wood, M.A. Kendall, J.I. Spicer, R. Twitchett, S. Widdicombe, 2011. Comparing the impact of high CO2 on calcium carbonate structures in difference marine organisms. Mar. Biol. Res., 7: 565-575

Findlay, H.S., P. Calosi, K. Crawfurd, 2011. Determinants of the PIC:POC response in the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi under future ocean acidification scenarios. Limnol. Oceanogr. 56: 1168-1178

Findlay, H.S., M.T. Burrows, M.A. Kendall, J.I. Spicer, S. Widdicombe, 2010. Does ocean acidification affect population dynamics: A modelling study? Ecology, 91: 2931-2940

Other activities

Fellow of Royal Geographical Society with IBG

Executive Committee Member for Arctic in Rapid Transition (ART) IASC Network

Member of the Association for Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS)

Editorial Board member for Ocean Challenge, Challenger Society Magazine