Andrew Brierley Group Leader e-mail Andrew

Room 2.15 Gatty Marine Lab Telephone +44 (0) 1334 463458 Fax +44 (0) 1334 463443

History

I started working as a Lecturer at the Gatty Marine Laboratory in February 2001. Prior to that I worked for seven years at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), latterly at grade UG7. At BAS my research centred on Antarctic krill, specifically year to year variations in the abundance of krill at South Georgia. I was part of a team using acoustic survey techniques to estimate krill abundance. In addition to my research role, I was leader of a project called "Variability of Southern Ocean Ecosystems". This project sought to describe and explain mechanisms driving pelagic ecosystem variation. The project's geographic focus was South Georgia, but we considered biological and oceanographic processes acting across the Scotia Sea and south-western Atlantic as a whole. One of the Pelegic Ecology Research Group's projects is building on my work on ecosystem variability at BAS.

Some of my External Activities

I am a member of NERC's Marine Facilities Review Group and Peer Review College

I am a regular participant in the ICES Fisheries Acoustics Science and Technology (FAST) Working Group.

I am an anonymous referee for the journal Marine Ecology-Progress Series.

I am a member of the UK National Committee for Antarctic Research

I am a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Teaching

At St Andrews I am involved in teaching on a number of courses including:

Marine Biology (Senior Honours) (co-organiser)

Environmental Biology (M.Res.)

Animal Diversity (2nd year)

Comparative Biology (2nd year)

Other University Duties

Member of the Careers Advisory Service Sub-Committee

Manager of Gatty Marine Laboratory's boat Orion