Dr Tom Vance

Dr Tom Vance is a marine ecologist and the Chief Executive of PML Applications Ltd.

Tom specialises in marine fouling, community ecology and biofouling management. Tom has experience in designing, conducting, and interpreting field and laboratory experiments on marine invertebrate and algal assemblages, both in the UK and internationally. He is the Co-chair of the Biofouling Management Expert Group of IMarEST and the representative for Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) with the GEF-UNDP-IMO GloFouling Project (PML is a strategic partner).

Tom’s practical experience includes diving surveys, field-based manipulative experimentation, marine invertebrate taxonomy, advanced image analysis, marine material and coating testing, molecular analysis of biofilms, together with multivariate statistics and reporting.